process so that we have more legal immigration because there are jobs out there that need to be filled. this is going to happen as long as we continue incentivizing illegal immigration. we need to focus more on ways of looking at the visa caps, are they the right number right now. these are topics that are in congress and that congress doesn t want to talk about because we are in an election year and we are in a recession. right. and the green card caps are literally decades old. so we have a long list of folks who are trying to come to the country legally. enormous difficulties around. even with the green card question, i love that in your article, mgm elliott capped this. going through the green card process and the waiting list and the family there are two ways that people can come from outside the united states to america. family base or employment base. and understanding the complexity
then have somebody who s actually a governor of a state saying, i don t really believe this guy s papers. what s he think, he s an illegal alien? does he think he s one of these guys he calls aliens? that he ought to be illegal. that s what he s saying. if he wasn t born here and never went through naturalization or didn t go through a green card process, it s one or the other. here s a guy making the charge that he might be the other. here s rick perry, we see him going for both the flat tax and this flat earth theory. the republicans can t escape the gravitational pull of profound anti-obamaism. you know, every time this gets knocked away, somebody comes along and suggests, wink, wink, nod, nod, as wayne just said, that maybe there s still something to this story. donald trump was out there last week, too, with michele bachmann holding a tele-town hall, in which he was going on, not so much about birtherism, but other things, other conspiracy theories about the war in libya. so i d
that forces you not to qualify for any federal benefits of any kind, that tells you you have to work and be gainfully employed so you are not a public charge. even with all of that, you don t gain access to the green card process. you have to apply for it. it s not award ed to you. you don t gain access to any of that until there s a universally verified system in place and an exit system in place. there s a change. you said that you would have to leave the country before you could come back, and you ve changed on that. but that s not necessarily what i ve said in the past. what i ve said in the past is there is a the pathway to citizenship and that is the legal immigration system. and all this bill does is give people access to the legal immigration system. it allows them to earn an access to the legal immigration system. and so what we are doing is we are creating an altern it tetch to that path that exists now and quite frankly it will be cheaper, easier and faster to leave and
roof. [ applause ] and will exempt from caps spouses and minor children of legal permanent residents. [ applause ] and will eliminate other forms of bureaucratic red tape that keep families from coming together. as president i will stand for a path to legal status for anyone who is willing to stand up and defend this great nation through military service. [ applause ] ? so he talked about the unemployment rate. obviously critical. talked about transformation in the green card process. talked about people who serve in the military, being able to have a path to citizenship. that one is not new. he did not talk about the new deportation policy of the president. right. that s what everyone was waiting to hear him weigh in on. i think sometimes with a speech it s as much as what you don t say in this speech especially a week later. people want to know where does he stand on this issue. as far as undocumented people in
checkpoint, but to do it and then have somebody who s actually a governor of a state saying, i don t really believe this guy s papers. what s he think, he s an illegal alien? does he think he s one of these guys he calls aliens? that he ought to be illegal. that s what he s saying. if he wasn t born here and didn t go through a green card process, it s one of the other. here s a guy making the charge that he might be the other. here s rick perry, we see him today going for the flat tax and this flat earth theory. the republicans can t escape the gravitational pull of profound anti-obamaism. you know, every time this gets knocked away, somebody comes along and suggests, wink, wink, nod, nod, as wayne just said, that maybe there s still something to this story. donald trump was out there last week too with michele bachmann, holding a tele-town hall, in which he was going on, not so much about birtherism, but other