At Q&A in Provo, Mitt Romney says he's more conservative than Trump on immigration

[grantcart]

Source: Provo Daily Herald

U.S. Senate candidate Mitt Romney spent much of a question-and-answer session in Provo Monday describing his relationship with President Donald Trump if elected, as well as establishing his conservative credentials. Romney spoke to a crowd of a couple hundred at the Provo Library at an event sponsored by the Utah County Republican Women Monday afternoon.

Audience members were able to write questions for the former presidential candidate on note cards to have Romney answer them as they were read by a moderator. One note card said that the person writing it, and all their Facebook friends, did not consider Romney to be very conservative, asking him whether he considered himself conservative, and if so, in what ways.

Romney said most people got to know his platforms during his 2012 presidential campaign, most of which were what he called “mainstream conservative.” Romney went so far as to say he’s more conservative on certain issues than President Trump.

“For instance, I’m a deficit hawk,” Romney said. “That makes me more conservative than a lot of Republicans and a lot of Democrats. I’m also more of a hawk on immigration than even the president. My view was these DACA kids shouldn’t all be allowed to stay in the country legally.”


Read more: https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/at-q-a-in-provo-mitt-romney-says-he-s/article_efee3320-23ac-5435-8c49-ddca54a69fe8.html

---

Mitt's father, George Romney, a respectable man who was a Republican politician that supported welfare and civil rights was born in Mexico because his family

In the United States, Romney grew up in humble circumstances.[19] The family subsisted with other Mormon refugees on government relief in El Paso, Texas,[20] benefiting from a $100,000 fund for refugees that the U.S. Congress had set up.[21] After a few months they moved to Los Angeles, California, where Gaskell Romney worked as a carpenter.[17][20] In kindergarten, other children mocked Romney's national origin by calling him "Mex".[22][23]

George Romney would be very disappointed in his immoral son.

[BumRushDaShow]

1. His idea is that they "self-deport".

[DeminPennswoods]

2. What if they all decide to become Mormons?

I'll bet Mittens would change his tune pretty fast. Anyway, isn't the LDS church pro-immigration?

[grantcart]

5. Yes and so is Utah

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/01/20/utahns-are-split-on-support-for-trump-but-a-large-majority-want-a-fix-for-young-immigrant-dreamers/

And if that were not enough sometime in the next few years Spanish will become the dominate language in the LDS worldwide

https://www.lds.org/ensign/2000/09/news-of-the-church/historic-milestone-achieved-more-non-english-speaking-members-now-than-english-speaking?lang=eng

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. So, does this finally disabuse the few here of the notion that this asshole is

somehow going to "be a thorn on the side" of Moron?

[grantcart]

4. I wonder what Jeff Flake is thinking

I am surprised at this given the universal support to find a legal solution to the dreamers.

Is he worried about the primary.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/01/20/utahns-are-split-on-support-for-trump-but-a-large-majority-want-a-fix-for-young-immigrant-dreamers/


A new poll shows Utahns of all political stripes back such a fix. The survey by The Salt Lake Tribune and the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics shows 69 percent of registered voters favor letting these young people stay. Some 26 percent opposed any protection for these immigrants.


The same poll shows that President Donald Trump’s job approval, meanwhile, remains about the same as Utah polls have shown in the past year, with 49 percent giving the president bad marks and 48 percent saying he’s doing well, the new survey shows. Only 20 percent say they strongly approve of Trump’s performance.

Utah has traditional been more understanding on migration and refugees than other red states.

Sixty-nine percent are for a Daca solution and Romney comes out against it?

It is beyond explanation. It is a psychosis in the Republican Party.

[Timmygoat]

6. I heard

That Mitt Romney has dual Mexican/American citizenship, his father lived in Mexico to avoid arrest in the states for being
polygamists, having multiple wives and children by them all.

[grantcart]

8. His father, George Romney, had dual citizenship having been born in Mexico.

It was Mitts grandfather that was the polygamist. His father, George Romney was a fine man who walked with Martin Luther King, supported civil rights, welfare and was the highest profile Republican politician to question the Vietnam War.

Ironically two groups of Mormons fled, one to Mexico and one to Canada, after my great great great grandfather Heber J Grant, President of the Mormon Church, issued an edict making polygamy a sin, a cause for permanent excommunication, and aligning the Church to assist law enforcement in prosecution.

[NNadir]

7. What's that mean, cattle cars and "selections" at the camps? n/t

[rwsanders]

9. Funny thing is this is a great preview of the next repuke presidential primary season...

all seeking to be right of Trump.

[dalton99a]

10. They need to start calling each other stupid names