Carson: Give Non-Criminal Illegal Immigrants Six Months to Register

‘That does not give them the right to vote; it does not make them U.S. citizens’

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REPORTER: "Can you explain your position on immigration? Are you in favor of encouraging people here to have a way to get -- or in favor of supporting people here?" 
CARSON: "Very easy question. I'm in favor of enforcing the laws that we have and in favor of securing our borders. All of our borders. This is not a difficult thing to do as was demonstrated in yuma county Arizona where they stopped 97% of illegal immigration by putting up a double fence with asphalt road in between so there was quick access. Actually putting border guards on the border and prosecuting first time offenders rather than the catch and release program that we now have. That stopped. That's without the addition of some of the unique surveillance equipment that we now have available to us. I think you can get pretty close to a hundred percent. The other thing you have to do is you have to decrease the incentives for people to come here. They say what is the point. That gets rid of the influx but it doesn't take care of the 11 plus million people that are still here. I propose that we give them a six month period in which to register. If they don't register, they're criminals and treated as such. If they register in that six month period and have a pristine record and they wish to be guest workers in this country they would have to pay a back tax penalty and have to continue to pay taxes going forward. They would no longer have to live in the shadow. That does not give them the right to vote. It does not make them U.S. Citizens. If they want to become U.S. Citizens, they have to go through the same thing anybody else wants to become a citizen, including leaving the country and apply from the outside unless the American people indicate they want a difference course than that."

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