Issue Position: Immigration

Issue Position

Ensure Legal and Orderly Immigration

The United States is a nation of immigrants, and should be proud of the fact that millions of people around the world continue to believe in and seek out the promise of the American dream. Our past, present, and future vitality as a nation and as an economy depends on the continued orderly flow of legal immigrants into the country. They bring new talent, drive, and entrepreneurial spirit to our state.

Unfortunately, the federal government has utterly failed in its duty to ensure the orderly flow of legal immigrants into our country. No nation can long survive without enforcing its borders, and the massive wave of illegal immigration has created a culture of violence, exploitation, human trafficking and crime.

Illegal immigration is, in fact, illegal.

That is why I support Arizona in its efforts to reign in the unchecked flow of illegal immigrants, and that is why I support the implementation of measures to ensure that immigration to Minnesota is both legal and orderly.

Let's not obscure the fact that when people refer to "undocumented workers" they are using a euphemism for illegal immigrants. Tolerance of illegal immigration is tolerance of breaking legitimate, constitutional federal laws. Illegal immigrants are certainly aware of those laws and the fact that they are breaking them, and law enforcement officials, employers, and bureaucrats in "sanctuary cities" are just as aware.

Much has been made of my desire to challenge unconstitutional federal laws; yet acknowledging and enforcing legitimate, constitutional federal law is now seen as extreme.

Nonsense.

We believe that legal immigrants who assimilate as Minnesota and U.S. citizens and become lawful contributing members of our community are a great asset to the state.

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