OTTUMWA, Iowa -- Mitt Romney said Saturday that he would veto the Dream Act, a bill that would provide legal status to some undocumented immigrants who entered the United States as children.
"The question is, if I were elected and Congress were to pass the Dream Act, would I veto it? And the answer is yes," said the candidate, speaking in Le Mars, Iowa.So we’re good enough to die for the country, but not to get a proper education.
But he added that he could support a system that offered legal status to people who served in the U.S. military. One provision of the Dream Act, which failed in the Senate when it last came up for a vote in December 2010, would allow some undocumented immigrants to work toward citizenship by joining the armed services for at least two years.
Undocumented immigrants are currently barred from serving in the military, although some do anyway. Only undocumented immigrants who entered the country under the age of 16, had clean criminal records and either attended college for at least two years or joined the military would be eligible for legal status under the bill.
Wake me up when he starts going on about how the Latinos are natural Republicans because of that family-values-thing.
Yawn.
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