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Republican Candidates Firm
on Immigration
John Byrne
NY
Times
Monday December 10, 2007
In front of what will probably be their most pro-immigration
audience, Republican candidates toned down their rhetoric but
told Spanish-language television viewers in a debate on Sunday
that they would take strong measures to close off the country’s
borders to illegal immigration.
The candidates were forced into a difficult balancing
act by the debate, broadcast on Univision, as they tried to offend
neither the Hispanic audience nor the Republican base many of
them have tried to appeal to by taking a hard line on illegal
immigration. The topic has led to some of the fiercest rhetoric
in past debates.
Most of the seven candidates took a softer tone on Sunday, even
as many spoke of working to eradicate illegal immigration. Some
spoke of trying to send some of the 12 million people who are
estimated to be in the United States illegally back to their native
countries.
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They sandwiched their remarks between gauzy paeans to legal immigration
and the values of immigrants.
The debate, less than a month before the voters of Iowa and New
Hampshire cast the first ballots, came as the battle to the Republican
presidential nomination assumed greater intensity and uncertainty.
Candidates found themselves fending off attacks on their records,
and a shifting field threatened to throw some campaign strategies
into disarray.
The sudden rise of Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas
who was hardly considered a factor a month ago, has shaken up
the race and thrust him into the center of controversies.
He began the day defending his record on “Fox News Sunday,”
where he argued that when he called in 1992 for taking steps to
isolate people with AIDS, he was not advocating a quarantine.
Then Rudolph W. Giuliani was questioned aggressively on NBC’s
“Meet the Press” about his judgment, his record and
his business dealings.
Full
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