Romney Opposed to Legalization

The Boston Globe reports today on Mitt Romney’s opposition to the White House-Senate compromise:

The crowd at South Carolina’s Republican convention cheered yesterday when former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney criticized a new immigration proposal and booed a key ally of US Senator John McCain when he defended it.

The immigration compromise between key senators and the White House played strongly at the convention as more than 1,000 delegates and Republican activists gathered. Many in the crowd wore stickers with “Senate amnesty bill” crossed out.

They cheered as Romney, a presidential candidate, told them: “One simple rule: No amnesty.”

During his speech and before his remarks, Romney said a proposed new visa for immigrants amounts to amnesty if it can be renewed indefinitely.

“If that’s not a form of amnesty, I don’t know what is,” Romney said.

The crowd booed South Carolina US Senator Lindsey Graham, a key ally of McCain in both his 2000 and 2008 presidential bids, when he said he had worked with Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts on the immigration legislation. Click here for the rest of the story.

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