Romney: Immigration Flip-Flop

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney recently made a complete Flip-Flop on Amnesty.

Mr. Romney’s most recent statements on immigration came as attacks against his main Republican rival, Newt Gingrich.  When Gingrich recently put immigration back on the table for discussion (See November Gingrich Statements), Romney labeled this aproach as “Amnesty” and encouraging illegality.  “Amnesty is a magnet,” Romney said in [the late-November] CNN national security debate, criticizing Gingrich’s approach to immigration, which would allow millions of undocumented immigrants who have settled for decades in America to become legal residents. “People respond to incentives, and if you can become a permanent resident of the United States by coming here illegally, you’ll do so.”   Washington Post.

Romney, however, has made Pro-Amnesty remarks in the past.  Here is the main example:

Romney, who at the time [2006] had yet to declare his first presidential candidacy for 2008, told reporters and editors in Bloomberg News’s Washington bureau that the 11 million immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally “are not going to be rounded up and box-carred out.” Law-abiding people who pay taxes, learn English and don’t rely on government benefits should be allowed to “get in line” to apply for citizenship, he said. “We need to begin a process of registering those people, some being returned, and some beginning the process of applying for citizenship and establishing legal status,” Romney said during the March 29, 2006, session.   Bloomberg News

 So, is Romney for or against Amnesty?