Governor Sarah Palin and Illegal Immigration

Recently, it has been implied that Governor Sarah Palin supports amnesty for illegal aliens.  This gets bleated by those who find offense at her remark that she supports "a path to citizenship for illegals".  That does sound pretty damning all by itself.

If you suffer an accute case of PDS, you don't even need this as an excuse to hate the governor, but if you are actually interested in the truth, a close examination might be in order.  Also in order, a mention that these quotes were taken from an interview with Univision.

So, what else is in the Hotair story?  Let's take a look:

Do you then favor an amnesty for the 12 or 13 million undocumented immigrants?

No, I do not. I do not. Not total amnesty. You know, people have got to follow the rules.

Looks like Governor Palin doesn't support amnesty.

To clarify, so you support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants?

I do because I understand why people would want to be in America.  To seek the safety and prosperity, the opportunities, the health that is here.  It is so important that yes, people follow the rules so that people can be treated equally and fairly in this country.

Now, I know some people love to use this imply that Governor Palin supports illegal immigration amnesty.  However, it is a long distance between letting illegal immigrants come to America (after they get in the back of the line behind everyone doing it legally) and supporting amnesty. A very long distance.

For the record, Free Stinker is married to the daughter of immigrants.  His own relatives (back a few generations) were immigrants.   So were yours.  Even if that means they walked accross the Bering straight ice/land bridge some 4,000 years ago.