ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER on "On the Record" with GRETA VAN SUSTEREN

Feenmi · Feenmi

Edit: sorry for the caps. I know it annoys some people. The governator and the host both have long names and I'm on my phone. I just copy/pasted it.

This is an excerpt from "On the Record," February 23, 2010 where Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared. Could it be that he's indirectly hinting at DA? Is it just a politcal trick to try to get reelected? I mean, even Repulicans hate him in CA.

Read and interpret for yourselves.

Quote:

VAN SUSTEREN: One of the things that Alan Greenspan said today is that it was an unbalanced recovery, that people who are on the -- you know, the high income earners can get good stocks and buy good deals right now. But it's really the people at the bottom who are immensely hurting. And I'm curious, is immigration a factor in this state that's creating -- I mean, what would you do about immigration, illegal immigration?

SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, I've said this many times, that we need immigration reform...

VAN SUSTEREN: What would you do?

SCHWARZENEGGER: ... because to solve this problem -- well, we've got to go and make a decision so that people can come to this country legitimately, rather than having quotas there, so that -- because we need the farm workers. We need the construction workers. We need to have people do certain jobs that maybe that we cannot fill otherwise.
So I think we ought to provide that. We ought to have, for instance, immigration reform when it comes to students. I think it's irresponsible in the way to have, you know, our students from all around the world come to our country, study, get their great education. Here we have the best university system in California, in the world, without any doubt. And then send them...

VAN SUSTEREN: There are some states that may disagree with you on that, but...

SCHWARZENEGGER: Trust me, you can look at any -- any kind of...

VAN SUSTEREN: I'm teasing you!

SCHWARZENEGGER: Yes. But the problem is that after four years or after six years, or whenever they're finished with their studies, we send the students back. I think they should stay here. They should work here. And they should take that knowledge that they have gained in California and put it to good use for California if they're studying here. So there's kinds of things like that that we ought to do in immigration reform, and it ought to be done now. We should not every two years say, Oh, this is not the right time. It is an election year. I think we should postpone it and go next year. It will never get done this way, and we always will live in this kind of a chaos. This is living in denial, basically, like ignoring that we have this major problem and people are coming across the border. Not as much right now because our economy is down, so we don't have as many illegals coming over. But the fact of the matter is it's a problem, and I think that we ought to solve it.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587297,00.html

oh noes. Not FOX News!!!!

Eddy117 · Eddy117

Schwarzenegger has always shown a conflicting view in regards to immigration. I do however see that he's always had a soft spot for young people such as ourselves who of no fault of our own are here illegally. I also don't think he can run for governor again so it would serve no political gain lest he tries to challenge Boxer or Feinstein or runs for the House or runs for office in the state legislature-something I see as highly unlikely.

nevfo · nevfo

Twice he's had the opportunity of turning around the lives of those people he appears to sympathize so much for, with a simple signature. And twice he's denied them.

dreamberry · dreamberry

Quote:

Originally Posted by nevfo

Twice he's had the opportunity of turning around the lives of those people he appears to sympathize so much for, with a simple signature. And twice he's denied them.

True, but if I recall correctly the California Dream Act would allow undocumented students to get some sort of financial aid. The California Dream act differs from the Dream Act Senator Durbin introduced in that there will be no financial aid provided to students.

I don't have much to say on the transcript and honestly don't think he tried too hard to gain political points over the issue of immigration. Like Eddy117 said, hes had a soft spot for undocumented individuals who have no fault in the acts of their parents and what he said on "On the Record" is nothing special.

Dreamer X · Dreamer X

wtf is he saying? i remember him vetoing the CA dream act twice...

supposedly his reasons was that CA was in a financial crisis. ugh...i hate politicians

originalgabe · originalgabe

soft spot my ass

gebodupa · gebodupa

I feel bad for all of you living in Cali who would like this to be passed but are you guys serious? The California DA is everything that the Federal DA shouldn't be. Mainly it grants financial provisions generated from tax revenues to undocumented students while providing no means for them to return them later on in form of taxes from generated incomes.

His stance actually makes perfect sense; he is simply unwilling to use the taxpayers money on someone who, under the current law, has no hopes of returning it back to the state.

jimminy89 · jimminy89

Doesn't CA already have it's own version of the DA? I was under the impression the AB 540 law arose from CA's Dream Act.

Dreamer X · Dreamer X

he did veto the driver's licenses for illegals at least once

ari88 · ari88

lies lies. i don't believe anything politicians say anymore.

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ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER on "On the Record" with GRETA VAN SUSTEREN