New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, desperate to get some traction in a 2016 pack that's leaving him behind, went after Hillary Clinton's longtime embrace of a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Heather Haddon
has the details:
In an interview on Fox News, the potential Republican 2016 presidential candidate said that while he once supported a path for undocumented immigrants to become citizens, his experience as governor of New Jersey had led him to change his position.
“I’ve learned over time about this issue and done a lot more work on it,” Mr. Christie told interviewer Megyn Kelly. “Just immediately going to a path to citizenship, as Hillary Clinton is proposing to do, is just pandering politics.”
Ha! That is rich. Christie flip flops, then goes on Fox to criticize Clinton for a position she's been pretty consistent on for the past decade (she
voted for immigration reform with a path to citizenship as a senator in 2006).
Meanwhile Christie said he supported a path to citizenship as recently as 2010. Here he is on ABC's This Week:
"The president and the Congress have to step up to the plate, they have to secure our borders, and they have to put forward a commonsense path to citizenship for people. And until they do that, states are going to struggle all over the country with this problem..."
Who's pandering now?