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Issue Position: Illegal Immigration

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2020
Issues: Immigration

The principal problem with our immigration laws is that they are not being enforced. We already have a "pathway to citizenship" that is taken by millions of LEGAL immigrants who have obeyed our laws, respected our nation's sovereignty, waited patiently in line and done everything our nation has asked of them, while 15 million ILLEGAL immigrants attempt to cut in line in front of them.

Our nation of immigrants is only possible because of assimilation: as immigrants come to America, they come with a sincere desire to be Americans -- to acquire a common culture, a common language and a devotion to American constitutional principles. Our immigration laws were written to assure assimilation. ILLEGAL immigration undermines assimilation and makes a mockery of the rule of law.

I favor the strict enforcement of our current immigration law as a prerequisite for any other reform.


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