On Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd that Democrats only support amnesty because they want more votes:
They want to bring in more people into this country who are primarily unskilled and have them compete so we can keep those wages down. And for one reason the Democrats want to do that, because they believe it’s politically good for them and they can win more elections. That is not in the interest of the American public.
Todd seemed flabbergasted at the idea, so Santorum pointed out that Democrats have never historically supported immigration reform and only do so now because it’s politically advantageous:
If you go back and look at the history of the Democratic Party Chuck, they have not been the party of pro-immigration. I mean, you can go back to the latest immigration report, Barbara Jordan, not a rock-ribbed conservative said that our immigration policy should be in the national interest and we should have controls on immigration because of that.
We have to look at the interest of American workers. And for decades Democrats looked at the interest of the American workers until it became important for them to be on this other side because of the politics of it. No one is standing for American workers unfortunately in either party. Big business wants cheap labor cost. Hillary Clinton wants more votes. I want to make sure that the American worker has an opportunity to see their wages rise and their incomes increase.
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