Below is the link to listen to George Allen on Hannity & Colmes from Monday, May 15 after Bush's speech on the immigration issue where Allen openly disagreed with Republicans George W. Bush, Bill Frist, Chuck Hagel, and Mel Martinez!
George Allen was trying to "have his cake and eat it too" by saying that he was against an immediate mass deportation of 11 million or more illegal immigrants but was for eventually deporting them all after they worked for a limited period of time!
Alan Colmes pressed George Allen on the main point of how that approach will not work and would drive illegal immigrants further underground because they would not willingly participate in a program where they would eventually be deported to which Allen said that "we cannot reward illegal behavior."
Rep. Charlie Norwood was on Meet The Press debating Sen. Lindsey Graham on this issue. Norwood is in overall agreement with George Allen and here is what Norwood said on the issue of mass deportation and the breaking up of families:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12851815/page/4/
Meet The Press, Transcript for May 21, 2006
MR. RUSSERT: But should the 11 million illegal immigrants be sent home?
REP. NORWOOD: Sent home, no, no. We need to have them go home on their own through attrition. Now, this is a Charlie Norwood program, it+óGé¼Gäós not in either bill, but there is a way to handle this without any mass deportation, without running people off immediately, but eventually letting them go back home, get in line, come back into America through a work program, and then become a citizen if they like.
MR. RUSSERT: They have three million children who are American citizens. So when the mother and the father go home, what happens to the children who were born here...
REP. NORWOOD: Well, obviously, the children go home, too, unless they+óGé¼Gäóre of age. I mean, I+óGé¼Gäóm sorry these people broke our law, but we are a country of laws, and they did break our law. They knew it when they came, and the consequences of that is at some+óGé¼GÇ¥under my plan+óGé¼GÇ¥under some point, two years, three years, they will voluntarily go home.
Rep. Norwood and George Allen are in dreamland if they think that illegal immigrants will willingly come out on their own and "will voluntarily go home" after two or three years!
At the end of the day, George Allen is for breaking up families just like how Norwood is. This is an issue that needs to be brought up now and which Allen needs to be pressed on for a consistent answer!
George Allen also did not contradict Alan Colmes in any way when Colmes said to Allen "How would President George Allen address the nation differently tonight than George W. Bush just did?" That clearly means that the issue of Allen running for President in 2008 is on the table now for him to give a straight answer to!
George Allen also said at the end of the interview that he would consider Sean Hannity as "an advisor" when Alan Colmes asked Allen is he would consider Hannity as his running mate. That means George Allen can also be tied to the many crazy comments that Hannity has said on record!
I was looking all over for that interview after I saw it on May 15 but FOX News does not make transcripts of all of their interviews (which they should do like all other credible cable news networks do)!
It was very nice of George Allen to provide that interview on his website in my opinion because it shows just how out of touch that Allen is with the Republican Senate and with the majority of the country. This is because he is running to the hard Neocon right in order to prepare for and get grassroots support for his 2008 Presidential run!
Please forward this on (especially in Virginia) so that all people can see how crazy, out of touch, and extreme that George Allen is. They need to see how that his immigration plans are not realistic and will break up families at the end of the day!
Mitch Dworkin
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Watch Senator Allen on Hannity & Colmes
Senator Allen offered his thoughts on immigration and his reactions to the President's speech.
Partial Clip ( 1:45 min ) | Full Video ( 7:15 min )