Orlando: US Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney slammed President Barack Obama, saying he has failed to enact immigration reform and offered his own plan, calling for permanent residency for highly skilled college graduates and members of the military and a “high-tech fence to enhance border security.”
Romney was speaking before an influential Hispanic group Thursday. He took hard-line immigration positions and attacked his rivals for being soft, The Miami Herald reported.
“Some people have asked if I will let stand the president’s executive action,” he said referring to Obama’s announcement last week that he would block deportation of young illegal immigrants. “The answer is that I will put in place my own long-term solution that will replace and supersede the president’s temporary measure. As president, I won’t settle for a stop-gap measure.”
Romney’s said the disturbing economic situation is hitting Hispanics worse than the overall population — an 11 percent unemployment rate vs. 8.2 percent. He said Obama had failed.
“Almost four years ago, Americans did something that was very much the sort of thing Americans like to do: We gave someone new a chance to lead; someone we hadn’t known for very long, who didn’t have much of a record but promised to lead us to a better place,” Romney said.
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