Gary Johnson, the former two-term governor of New Mexico, will likely be nominated as the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate this weekend at the party’s convention in Orlando, Florida. Talking with 790 KABC Morning Host Doug McIntyre, the former Republican made it clear he does not consider the eleven million illegals living in the U.S. to be a problem.
“Decades ago you had individuals coming across, it wasn’t really illegal immigration as much as they didn’t have papers that were needed. So in this process of rounding up eleven million illegal immigrants, are they gong to come knocking at your door and my door? Checking our papers? You know, if you’re going to carry this to it’s full extent, because I think that is what’s going to happen. Look, I think immigration is really a good thing, we should make it as easy as possible for somebody who wants to come into this country to work, to get a work visa. Government is responsible for eleven million illegal immigrants because they make it so difficult to get across the border.”
Johnson says workers from Mexico are good workers and are an asset to the country.
“I’m speaking as a (former) border governor of New Mexico. One of the first things I did in New Mexico was I asked all of my agencies that interface with legal, illegal immigration – that would have been education, that would have been health and human services, that would have been law enforcement. The question was, ‘Is more money coming in the door, more tax dollars coming in the door than is going out?’ The one hundred percent consensus was more money was coming in the door than was going out. And that is not even taking into account the fact that they do buy homes, they buy cars, they go to the grocery store, on and on and on.”
True to Libertarian principles, Johnson said he wants to end the war on drugs.
“Tens of millions of Americans are convicted felons that but for our drug laws would be taxpaying, law abiding citizens.”
Johnson was a guest on 790 KABC’s McIntyre in the Morning with Doug McIntyre and Terri Rae Elmer.
By Sandy Wells –
