CA Rep Bilbray’s Romney Endorsement Pushes Him Further Right

Here’s the rub.

Mitt Romney and California’s U.S. Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Solana Beach just endorsed each other. The thing is, though, that this seems to move Romney even further right on immigration. Bilbray is the chair of the hard core anti-immigrant House Immigration Reform Caucus and equated passing the DREAM Act with being an accessory to murder:

…migrants paid the cartels to bring them across our border illegally, not knowing they would be kidnapped, held for ransom and murdered—whether or not their families paid for their release.

Unfortunately, some people in Congress and in the business community share the responsibility for the murders. When my colleagues talk about providing amnesty (or “a pathway to citizenship”) they become an accessory to these murders. When they support amnesty, introduce bills that provide a pathway to citizenship and, in the most irresponsible of cases, use amnesty to motivate voters, they tell people: ‘work with the cartels and come across our border illegally, for we will eventually give you amnesty and citizenship.’