Quad-Ctiy Times
MUSCATINE, Iowa -- Jon Hatfield got what he came for Sunday during Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s stop in Muscatine.
“I want to see what his views are on illegal immigration,” Hatfield, of Muscatine, said before the event. “Why don’t we just enforce the laws we have?”
Immigration has been the No. 1 issue on Iowans’ minds, followed by the war on terrorism, during Romney’s estimated 25 visits to the state in the past year, he said during an interview with the Muscatine Journal.
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A woman in the crowd asked Romney about his feelings on an immigration bill the Senate could debate.
“Can you tell us what you do like about this bill and what you don’t like and how you would fix it?” she asked.
Romney said the bill incorporates border security and employment verification measures, which he advocates.
“But there’s something I don’t like in the bill,” Romney said. “There’s something called a Z visa and the idea behind the Z visa is everybody who’s here illegally today is given a Z visa that allows them to stay here for the rest of their lives. But that strikes me as being amnesty and unfair.”