2012 Candidates for Hawaii Senate Seat

Linda Lingle

Campaign Website Statements

2. Immigration Reform

I believe it’s in America’s best interest to develop a comprehensive legal immigration policy. If you’re like me, your grandparents came from other countries, and they came for the same reasons people come today: to have a good life where their children can excel because there is equality of opportunity. Long-term economic growth demands that we attract the best and brightest from other countries. No more than 7% of the visas each year can be allocated to immigrants from any one country. Immigrants from large countries such as India and China have the same number of visas available as those from much smaller countries such as Iceland and Costa Rica. This makes no sense, is not in America’s best interest, and should be changed.

Campaign Video

Former Hawaii Governor and current U.S. Senate candidate Linda Lingle released today the fifth web video in a series that has been a highly visible part of her pledge to run an issues-based campaign.

This video on Immigration and Visas, like the others Gov. Lingle has released in preceding weeks, weighs in on an issue critical to Hawaii and the nation. It is available on the Lingle 2012 website and on the Lingle 2012 YouTube channel.

Always putting Hawaii's "people first," Gov. Lingle believes that the most effective means to overcoming the challenges facing our state and country are common-sense solutions. In this video on immigration, Governor explains that the policy on student visas runs counter to America's best interests.

At a time when the nation's suffering economy can least afford it, it is especially counter-productive to encourage students to come to America and study, obtain advanced degrees, and then send these highly-educated, highly-trained individuals back to their countries of origin to compete against us.

Gov. Lingle points out that these individuals are perfectly positioned to be inventors, entrepreneurs, and job creators, and give our economy a much-needed boost.

Gov. Lingle believes that the greatness of America is owed to its strong foundation, built by generations of immigrants. It's clear they came to this country because of freedom, opportunity, and to make a better life in a society where success depends on hard work not fortune of birth.
 

Eddie Pirkowski

PoliGu Questionnaire

Amnesty

Do you support measures to allow citizens of other nations residing in the US illegally to remain in the nation indefinitely as a citizen or under a different legal status?

YES

Actions Against Illegal Aliens

If you oppose legislation to make illegal aliens US citizens or grant them permanent resident status, what course of action would you support to enforce the law?

FOLLOW CONSTITUTION, US WAS FOUNDED BY IMMIGRANTS

DREAM Act

The DREAM Act would grant in state tuition rates at colleges and universities to illegal aliens. It would also grant citizenship to those who graduated high school in the US and go on to attend college even though they are in the country illegally. Do you support the DREAM Act?

YES

Immigration Reform

In 1986 a law called Simpson-Mizzoli granted amnesty to illegal aliens in return to increased enforcement of immigration laws. That legislation also asserts that it is the sense of Congress that US immigrations laws should be enforced. If you support a new reform is passed to provide a pathway to citizenship to illegal aliens, what measures would you use to ensure that another wave of illegal aliens would not be granted amnesty in another 20 or 30 years?

NONE, AMERICA WAS FOUNDED BY IMMIGRANTS,MAKES US STRONGER AND MORE RESILIANT, BETTER EDUCATED AND TALENTED DIVERSE WORKFORCE, WE NEED HIGH TECH ENGINEERS AND TECHNOLOGISTS NATIONWIDE FOR MILLIONS OF OPEN POSITIONS

Arizona and Other States

Arizona and other states have passed laws in an effort to use state and local law enforcement to discourage illegal immigration and enforce federal laws. Was this action consistent with the constitutional delegation of powers?

YES, SUPPORT STATES

Sanctuary Cities

Numerous cites such as San Francisco declare that federal immigration laws will not be applied within their jurisdiction. They also exempt illegal aliens from laws they are broken solely as a result of their status, such as driving and employment laws. Do you support these policies?

YES SUPPORT STATES CHOICE AND THEIR SUPPORT OF LOCAL CHOICES

Would you move to end them?

SUPPORT STATES CHOICES

E-Verify

The federal government has a program called E-Verify that allows employers to run a possible employee's social security number and name through an electronic database and then determine if that number is valid. Do you support the requirement that any company doing government work be required to use this program?

SUPPORT FEDERAL AND STATE CHOICES

Current vs Former Immigrants

If you support the deportation of illegal aliens or other mechanisms of enforcement of immigration laws, how does the current wave of illegal aliens differ from those who came in previous decades?

SUPPORT PATH TO CITIZENSHIP FOR ALL

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