Mitt Romney won’t say if he would overturn Barack Obama’s DREAM Act Executive Order

  As someone who is finding it quite hard to get behind Mitt Romney, and as someone who isn’t committed to vote for Mitt Romney, I found his response to Barack Obama’s decision to bypass the Congress and unilaterally implement the DREAM Act by Executive Order to be troubling. Mitt Romney released a statement which condemned Barack Obama for the manner in which he implemented the new law but he didn’t condemn the law itself.

  Mitt Romney’s only issue with Barack Obama’s decision is that it isn’t a permanent solution because an Executive Order can be overturned by the next president to come into power but, like RINO Marco Rubio, it appears as if Mitt Romney does support the legislation and he stated that as president he would work towards a permanent solution. To me that sounds as if Mitt Romney would try to work with the Congress to pass the DREAM Act legislatively, thusly ensuring permanent amnesty to a certain group of illegal immigrants. While this might be the proper procedure for implementing policy the fact remains that we are still talking about amnesty and the DREAM Act here.

  And today on the morning talk shows Mitt Romney more or less confirmed my worries about where he stands on the DREAM Act when he refused to state on the record whether or not he would overturn Barack Obama’s Executive Order:

The Republican presidential candidate was asked three times in an interview on CBS’ ”Face the Nation” whether he would overturn the executive order issued Friday if he’s elected in the fall. He refused to directly answer

  But what he did say was this:

He explained the order would become irrelevant “by virtue of my putting in place a long-term solution, with legislation which creates law that relates to these individuals such that they know what their setting is going to be, not just for the term of a president but on a permanent basis

    In other words he intends to render Barack Obama’s Executive Order irrelevant because he plans on working with the Congress in an attempt to pass the DREAM Act legislatively. Basically he intends to take Barack Obama’s DREAM Act one step further by making it much harder for a true conservative to come along someday and reverse the new amnesty law.

  Mitt Romney took the toughest stance against illegal immigration out of any of the Republican candidates during the primary, going so far as to call Newt Gingrich’s amnesty plan a magnet which would encourage more people to illegally enter the country, but with the primary election behind him he seems to be softening his stance and he is now open to creating a magnet of his own.

  Who didn’t see that coming from the man with no core political beliefs?