Deleware 2006 Senate Debate: on Immigration


Jan Ting: Comprehensive immigration reform is a defeatist solution

TING: The immigration system is completely broken down. Every night of the year thousands of people cross our borders. Laws that are not enforced are not really laws. A nation that can't defend its own borders is not really a nation. The solution that Sen. Carper has proposed, which he calls comprehensive immigration reform, amounts to an amnesty with Social Security credit for illegal aliens, and permission for them to bring their families into the US, immediately, without numerical limits, from anywhere in the world. I think that's a defeatist solution and frankly I don't think that's a solution at all. One amnesty will simply lead to another. If we want open borders, then we ought to support Sen. Carper's plan. If we want to maintain control of our borders, and defend the most generous legal immigration system in the world, then vote for Jan Ting.

CARPER: It's unlawful for illegal aliens to receive Social Security. They can't do it under the law [nor the comprehensive immigration reform].

Source: Delaware 2006 Senate Debate, hosted by WHYY-TV Oct 20, 2006

Tom Carper: No one proposes that illegal aliens receive Social Security

TING: The immigration system is completely broken down. Every night of the year thousands of people cross our borders. Laws that are not enforced are not really laws. A nation that can't defend its own borders is not really a nation. The solution that Sen. Carper has proposed, which he calls comprehensive immigration reform, amounts to an amnesty with Social Security credit for illegal aliens, and permission for them to bring their families into the US, immediately, without numerical limits, from anywhere in the world. I think that's a defeatist solution and frankly I don't think that's a solution at all. One amnesty will simply lead to another. If we want open borders, then we ought to support Sen. Carper's plan. If we want to maintain control of our borders, and defend the most generous legal immigration system in the world, then vote for Jan Ting.

CARPER: It's unlawful for illegal aliens to receive Social Security. They can't do it under the law [nor the comprehensive immigration reform].

Source: Delaware 2006 Senate Debate, hosted by WHYY-TV (X-ref Ting) Oct 20, 2006

  • The above quotations are from Incumbent Delaware Sen. Thomas Carper (D) and Republican challenger Jan Ting debate issues. Hosted by WHYY-TV, Oct. 20, 2006, Wilmington, Delaware..
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2008 Presidential contenders on Immigration:
Republicans:
Chmn.John Cox
Mayor Rudy Giuliani
Gov.Mike Huckabee
Rep.Duncan Hunter
Sen.John McCain
Rep.Ron Paul
Gov.Mitt Romney
Sen.Fred Thompson 		Democrats:
Sen.Hillary Clinton
Sen.John Edwards
Sen.Mike Gravel
Rep.Dennis Kucinich
Sen.Barack Obama 		Third Parties:
Green: Rep.Cynthia McKinney
Socialist: Brian Moore
Independent: Mayor Mike Bloomberg
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