Earlier today, ThinkProgress noted that in an interview with Univision, RNC Chairman Michael Steele defended the use of the pejorative term “illegal alien” to describe undocumented immigrants. Elsewhere in the interview, describing the GOP as “the party of assimilation,” Steele offered his advice for how immigrants should approach entering America:
STEELE: Number two, I think as I found with a lot of Hispanics, particularly those who have been her for several generations, they understand and respect the rule of law that is so important as a foundational principle of this country…I can sum it up for you this way, the party as I said is always the party, its been the party of assimilation and that is something that we believe in very firmly and basically what we should be saying is that there are rules that you need to get into the country, go the right door, fill out the right form, have some apple pie, hum a few bars of the star spangle banner and get to work, God bless you, and I think that that begins to set us on the right road to dealing with this issue.
(HT: TPM LiveWire)
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