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Home Front: Politix
Hickenlooper: Give Illegal Immigrants 10-year Visas ‘Immediately’
2019-06-22
[FREEBEACON] Former Colorado governor and Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper
... former governor of Colorado, yet another of 2020's innumerable Dem candidates. Less grabby than Biden, less Cherokee than Warren assuming that's possible, taller than Gillebrand, if those are recommendations...
said Friday the 11 million illegal immigrants colonists currently living in the United States should be given 10-year visas "immediately."

Hickenlooper was speaking at Telemundo's presidential candidate forum in Miami when he made the comment about illegal immigrants colonists in the United States, adding the visa would allow a path to American citizenship.

"What would be your plan for the 11 million undocumented immigrants colonists that are right here in the country. Would you give them a path to citizenship?" a moderator asked.

Before answering the question, Hickenlooper responded to another question about a 2014 Wall Street Journal interview in which he said citizenship wasn't a priority for undocumented immigrants colonists. The moderator mentioned that he walked back the claim and then repeated it in 2016 during an event with community leaders.

"I was talking about‐when I talked to the Wall Street Journal about trying to find a way that the undocumented people in this country could go back and forth immediately and visit their families," Hickenlooper said. "What I would say with the 11 million people that are here now that we should give them a 10-year visa immediately, put them on a pathway to citizenship and make sure that if it takes longer they can have extensions."

"What I was trying to say at that time was the priority should be allow people to come out from the shadows," Hickenlooper said.

Hickenlooper was asked to clarify whether he would provide undocumented immigrants colonists with a pathway to citizenship.

"Yes, of course. No, no I was saying the priority needs to be able to let them have freedom to actually work and to travel, but yes absolutely everyone deserves a pathway to citizenship," Hickenlooper said.

Posted by:Fred

#5  10-year visas immediately for illegals? There are no good reason for doing this and lots of bad reasons. Chickenlooter is a goner. We can't afford such cockamamie nonsense. The radical left, open-border members of the Donk Party might go for this proposal.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-06-22 13:52  

#4  pandering ass
Posted by: chris   2019-06-22 11:36  

#3  Herper-derper
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-06-22 05:15  

#2  They have a pathway to citizenship. Go back and follow the LAWFUL process like LEGAL immigrants.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2019-06-22 00:59  

#1  Bye-Bye Hicky.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-06-22 00:32  

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