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Romney fires contractor who hired illegal immigrants
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, ridiculed by rival Rudy Giuliani for employing illegal immigrants at his “sanctuary mansion,” said he had fired the landscaper for his suburban Boston home after learning for a second time about undocumented workers laboring on the property, the Associated Press reported.
Romney said in a statement that he had given the contractor a second chance and termed the recurrence of hiring illegal immigrants “disappointing and inexcusable.”
Romney has made the fight against illegal immigration a cornerstone of his campaign.
At a Republican presidential debate last week, Romney and Giuliani, a former mayor of New York, traded barbs on the issue, carrying over a theme from the campaign trail.
Giuliani defended his policy in New York where police and local officials did not check the immigration status of residents using city services.
“If we didn’t allow the children of illegal immigrants to go to school, we would have had 70,000 children on the streets at a time in which New York City was going through a massive crime wave,” he said.
Giuliani also accused Romney of having a “sanctuary mansion.”
In response, Romney said it would “not be American” to question the legal status of workers just because they “have a funny accent.”
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By Brittanicus
December 5, 2007 2:55 PM | Link to this
Stop all this festering issue of illegal immigration. Unless U.S. citizens strive to end this conflict amongst the rulling parties, the immigration debate isn’t going away. None of the politial parties are without blame, nor the American people? This invasion has not just started, it’s been gaining momentum of three decades. Its an argument full of venom and pro illegal immigrant-groups, only have to use the race card to send both politicans and activists cowering in a dark corner. However, times are changing and the globalist, open-border, free-marketeers are not winning any more. Mitt Romney, Guiliani, Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Richardson, McCain and others are now scrambling to appease the majority of the American citizen population who are fed up with paying the tab for pariah employers.The annual cost to taxpayers is about $22 billion a year according to Center for Immigration Studies and the tax burden will grow — because 15 million more immigrants are set to arrive by year 2017 according to their latest research.
More than 10 million immigrants have arrived since year 2000; it is estimated that nearly 6 million are illegal. All told, the group of immigrants now account for 38 million at the moment according to the White House’s own census bureau. Fight back today and demand your Washington (Public Servant) co-authors “THE SAVE ACT”.