Tea Partier Dick Armey: Don’t Blame Undocumented Immigrants!

 
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Watch former House Majority Leader — and Tea Party leader — Dick Armey (R-Texas) talk about undocumented immigrants and, among other things, complain about the “meaness” of the immigration debate in the United States:

“The biggest immigration problem we got in America is a government that’s not doing its job,” says Armey. “I don’t like illegal immigration, but I’ll tell you something: I don’t run stop lights. But you put me out on the road at two o’clock in the morning on the way to the all-night drugstore to get medicine for my babies, and you give me a stop light that is stuck on red, and no traffic in sight, and I’m gonna go through that red light.” (emphasis added).

In the past, Armey has criticized the Republican Party for alienating Latino voters by backing restrictionist immigration policies. He even has attacked anti-immigrant zealot Tommy Tancredo for hurting the Republican Party.  Not surprisingly, restrictionist groups like Numbers USA have claimed that Armey is an “open borders” advocate.

KJ