Kernels From Iowa: Romney vows to eradicate illegal immigration

Carolyn Hileman* | December 19, 2007

Turning up the already heated rhetoric on border security marking the GOP presidential race, Mitt Romney promised Friday “no illegal immigration” when he’s in charge.

In the west-central Iowa town of Carroll, his presidential campaign attached the billing “Strategy for a Stronger America: Enforcing Our Immigration Laws” to a standard stump talk and question-and-answer session with 100 people.

None of them asked about immigration, but the former Massachusetts governor spent several minutes explaining his proposals to address undocumented workers. (He also took shots at former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee, the ex-governor of Arkansas, for their past support of policies that he said encouraged illegal immigrants to work or attend college in the United States.)

One of Romney’s ideas calls for a national “employment verification system” to ensure that people entering the country are carded and legally employed.

“Those here illegally won’t be able to get a job, because they won’t have that employment verification card,” he said.

Then the candidate looked toward the back of the room at Carroll County Sheriff Doug Bass.

“Sheriff Bass, that would make your job a little easier, wouldn’t it?”

Bass agreed, but dispassionately.

Afterward, the longtime sheriff told The Kansas City Star that illegal immigrants didn’t present much of a problem in Carroll County, population 21,000.

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