On CNN, Romney Advisor Won't Say If Romney Will Repeal Obama's Executive Order On Immigration

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Since President Obama is currently leading Mitt Romney by double-digit margins in some states with Hispanic voters, the Republican presidential candidate is currently walking a fine line talking about immigration reform. On CNN's State of the Union today, Candy Crowley asked Romney advisor Ed Gillespie if Romney would immediately repeal Obama's executive order targeted at younger immigrants or if he would keep it in place. Gillespie said it would be up for review, but would not say exactly what Romney would do about it.

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Crowley told Gillespie that at this point, it remains unclear whether Romney would do away with Obama's executive directive on immigration or not. Gillespie explained that every single executive action taken by Obama during his presidency will be the subject of review, and could end up being repealed. Crowley pressed Gillespie for a definitive answer on this specific policy, because young Hispanics who meet the criteria lined out in Obama's order to get working papers could lose all of that the minute Romney is sworn in, and so explaining his position before the election would at least tell voters what they should expect.

Gillespie suggested that the executive action by Obama was merely taken only to win over certain voter demographics, but as the segment winded up, he didn't tell Crowley either way what Romney would do about the order, merely insisting once again that it would be thoroughly reviewed.

Watch the video below, courtesy of CNN:

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• Really? You expect Mittens to take a stand on any controversial political issue. You have to be kidding. And when he finally gets around to it, he will change his position, anyway. 

• Crowley correctly enunciated the key reason why Romney should be pressured to say in advance what he is going to to do with the 'deprioritize the deportation of dream qualified illegal aliens' executive order, because lots of qualified dream actors are wondering if they should come out of hiding to accept the work authorization card that goes with the executive order (and which requires them to make a trip to the INS and give up their address and so forth), since that will put them on the Justice Department radar screen if Romney comes in and revokes the order. In fact, illegal aliens are always suspicious of the INS and quite a number will take no chances with this order and stay underground.

• Romney already said he would replace the Pandering Preezy's Empty Promises.

  Obama's Fast and Furious, started in Fall, 2009, is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Mexican citizens. How do Hispanics feel about that ?

• I think he will take a position, but he is still trying to work it out politically. He's in a tough position in that I am sure he would like to keep the dream alive, but a lot of people in his right wing base do not. He has to figure out some way of making both happy, if that is possible.

• 'Romney already said he would replace the Pandering Preezy's Empty Promises.'

  With what? 

• This is a phony issue, of course. No one is deporting any children or students.

  The border must be closed first and then the citizenship question can be dealt with responsibly.

• They do hate the fact that so many weapons are coming down to Mexico and ending up in the hands of some real nasty people who use them to kill people pursuant to the turf war going on over providing drugs to the several billion dollar a year US illegal drug market. With lots of innocents being killed, and police and government officials also getting killed trying to rein them in. Certainly they have a right to be mad about the FF guns, though they probably appreciate at least the ATF sentiment of wanting to stop the illegal gun pipeline that partially supplies the cartels. And with tens of thousands of such guns floating around, there are plenty of guns for the bad guys to choose from besides the few hundred FF guns that ended up down there. Like these 9000 AR-15 US made assault rifles: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500202_162-57337289/legal-u.s-gun-sales-to-mexico-arming-cartels/

  Do you support closing down the sale of weapons to Mexico? There are tens of thousands of guns down there already, and thousands more ready to go at the factory?

  Wouldn't legalizing marijuana go a long way toward ending those drug wars, and the associated violence, too?

• Mitt comes out against of Obama's action/Dream Act he loses the small
  Hispanic support he has ' Mitt comes out in favor of Obama's action/Dream Act he loses the overwhelming xenophobic support he has