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CONDOLEEZA RICE URGES GOP TO EMBRACE IMMIGRATION REFORM

By Greg Siskind

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Another prominent figure in the Republican Party urges her party to change its ways on immigration. Rice tells the New York Times:

IMMIGRATION POLICY IS FOREIGN POLICY.
We didn?t get comprehensive immigration reform. . . . I think everybody knows that this president tried. I remember the first foreign-policy meeting that I went to with the then-governor, before he was inaugurated, was with the then-governor, soon to be president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, and they talked about the need to fix this problem. I am a firm believer in defending our laws and defending our borders. . . . But it?s also true that there are a lot of hardworking people in this country who live in the shadows.

IMMIGRANTS ARE CENTRAL TO AMERICAN IDENTITY.
I was a major proponent of the temporary-worker program and finding some way to normalize the status for these people. I think that it goes to the core of who we are. I hear some people talking about, well, maybe there should be a timeout on legal immigration, check your last name and see whether or not it came over on the Mayflower.

WHY SOME IMMIGRANTS SHOULD STAY ? AND SOME SHOULD STAY HOME.
Improving the economic conditions that would allow people who are clearly ambitious ? if they?re going to walk across the desert to get here, they?re ambitious people ? improving the capability of those people to stay home and contribute is the last piece of that puzzle. Comprehensive immigration reform is the one thing I wish we?d been able to do, and it?s going to have to be done, and I hope it?s done soon.

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on November 19, 2008 (boomark / email).