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Ralph Nader shares a 88% similarity with your beliefs on Immigration
I strongly support a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants
"I take the immigration thing from a broader scope. First of all, if we stop supporting dictators and oligarchs in Central and South America, the desperation of people to go north to feed their families would be severely diminished. So we cause that kind of push north. Then we allow these corporations to be a magnet in America to bring and hire these people in order to drive down wages in our country and exploit these immigrants."
Emailed response from the Nader campaign's communications director on Oct. 18, 2008: "Ralph Nader supports a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants."
"This is very difficult because you are giving a green light to cross the border illegally. I don't like the idea of legalization because then the question is how do you prevent the next wave and the next? I like the idea of giving workers and children--they are working, they are having their taxes withheld, they are performing a valuable service, even though they are illegally here--of giving them the same benefits of any other workers."
I support a temporary guest worker program
"Q. What is your stance on numeric caps for legal immigration and/or quotas for specific countries for immigration, and whether there should be amnesties for illegal immigrants? NADER: One way is to provide work permits for people who come in and do work for short periods of time that Americans don’t want to do instead of criminalizing the border."
The Fresno (CA) Bee Oct 22, 2000, by John Ellis
Q. Do you support a guest worker program? NADER. "Yes, under work permits, so everything is above board. So they are not exploited. Right now, employers have the best of both worlds. They exploit workers, they make huge profits, and they escape prosecution. Farm labor, whether American or unlawful immigrants, don’t have the protection under labor laws that industrial workers have. The idea is to bring all farm labor under the Fair Labor Standards Act."
The Fresno (CA) Bee Oct 22, 2000, by John Ellis
