Subject: Kasich on Hannity: just as anti-immigrant as the rest
From: DNC Press <[email-masked]>
To: DNC Press <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 16:04:29 +0000

Last night on Sean Hannity, John Kasich reaffirmed he is not for a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, and said that he supports building a wall along the border. See transcript below.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPIu7CxZE-U&feature=youtu.be

REACTION from DNC:

"John Kasich proved once again he’s just as extreme and anti-immigrant as the rest of the Republican field. Like Donald Trump, Kasich is in favor of building a massive wall, but not in favor of granting a path to citizenship. This isn’t too surprising coming from a guy who compared immigrant families to teenagers waiting in line for a Taylor Swift concert.”
—TJ Helmstetter, DNC spokesperson

TRANSCRIPT:

HANNITY: The only two issues I ever hear conservatives critical towards you about, immigration, and the refugee issue, which you and I discussed the last time you were on the program. I want to give you an opportunity to expand on this. Should people who do not respect our law and sovereignty, why should they have a path towards citizenship?

KASICH: I'm for legalization, Sean. I'm not for giving anybody a path to citizenship here.

HANNITY: No citizenship?

KASICH: No, I don't believe in that. But I do believe if they've been law abiding in this country, they can get to legalization. They have to pay a fine and everything else. But the wall has to go up, Sean.

Look, Reagan was for letting these folks stay in 1986. Where did they fall down? They didn't enforce the law. We need to finish the wall. And if you come over for any reason, you're going back. I don't want to argue or discuss it with them. You got to go back. But for the ones that are here, I think they can be given a path to legalization. If they broke the law, that's a whole other story.

HANNITY: A path to legalization but no citizenship. Just to be clear --

KASICH: No, I don't believe we should --

HANNITY: OK.

KASICH: Correct. I believe we should go to legalization, but not citizenship. I don't believe in that path.