Then Senator and 2008 VP Candidate, Joe Biden, was questioned on the topic of immigration during a campaign event. Either he was lying then, or he is being bribed or controlled now! This event was a town hall meeting with Madison County Democrats at the Madison County Historical Society in Winterset, Iowa on August 12, 2007.
“No great nation can be in a position where they can’t control their borders. It matters how you control your borders. Not just for immigration, but it matters for drugs, terror, and a whole range of things.” — Joe Biden
Biden’s 2008 Campaign Truism’s Regarding Immigration
Question: I’m grappling, and look to your leadership and experience on this issue of immigration. What is your wisdom and thinking experience? I wonder what’s legal, not legal, a big tough thing.
Presidential Candidate Joe Biden: My experience is that the American people, historically, are, on balance, much more generous than they are, then they are parochial. But what they want to know is what you’re saying to them make sense, and there’s three things that make sense, it seems to me. And the figure is, the point is, how do you bring them in line with one another.
It makes sense that no great nation can be in a position where they can’t control their borders. It matters how you control your borders not just for immigration, but it matters for drugs, terror, a whole range of other things. So, that’s the first sort of truism.
The second truism is that, that this nation is such that people in the country should have the first opportunity to be able to have jobs that pay well, and have jobs that are decent, and that after that the second crack goes to what we may need from other parts of the world or other or any other input.
And the third sort of truism is that we as a country have never let, no matter what the source, children and disadvantage people, legal or illegal, be left out there to just, you know, atrophy, to just, to be, to stay in the shadows, to be, to be victimized. And we’ve always given them a path, a path legally or illegally getting here, a path to deal with it.
Now look, you know, there’s an awful lot of these illegals quote, unquote that are here, the undocumented. Better here, that didn’t choose to be here, their children, their children. And so the question is how do you take those three instincts and urges of the American people. This notion of fairness, get in line don’t jump ahead of the line bus, you know you get in line, and these people didn’t get in line. They jumped ahead of the gate. They, and that bothers people. And how do you reconcile that with the fact that a lot of people are here and have been here a long time who didn’t ask to come here, but now we’re in a position where, how do you, what do you, how do you, do you deal with with them? Here’s the conclusion I come up with, and it’s sort of an equal parts. We have to, we have to, and I’ve been arguing for, when I’m back in my days is Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and straight through and as the leader of the Foreign Relations Committee, I’ve been arguing for the need to put more protection on our borders, meaning that you have more border guards.
