Issue Position: Border Security, Not Amnesty

Issue Position

I strongly oppose President Obama's unilateral, and unconstitutional, actions to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants and support efforts to turn back this power grab. We should not reward people for breaking the law. Anyone seeking to become a citizen should do so legally.

The path to immigration reform is to work with Congress, not around us. It starts with allocating the resources, surveillance technology and manpower necessary to ensure that individuals crossing our borders are doing so legally. No immigration reform policies we pass will be effective until we have a secure border and agents that are allowed to do their jobs. Adding more rules to the books without enforcing the ones we have will only make the situation worse.

As a nation, we should be proud of our record to naturalize those who immigrate here legally. We naturalize more new citizens per year than the rest of the world combined. Rewarding lawbreakers with amnesty is a disservice to all who followed the rules to become citizens. Some of those rules may need changing, but amnesty is not the solution.

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