NEWS

FOR RELEASE: On Receipt                                                                                             March 31, 2008

Cites Positions on “Wide Range of Issues”

Del. Bob Marshall (R., Manassas) has been endorsed for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate by U.S. Border Control, a Virginia-based organization founded in 1988 and dedicated to ending illegal immigration by securing America's borders and reforming immigration policies.

“As chairman of U.S. Border Control,” Edward I. Nelson, of McLean [usbc.org], wrote to Marshall on March 29, “I am proud to give you our organization's endorsement.

“I found some time to review your website, not just the immigration portion, but your views across the board.  As important as border and immigration policies are to me, I could not, in good conscience, endorse a person who was right on immigration but wrong on the other serious issues our nation faces.

“I was delighted to see that your position statements on a wide range of issues reflect a thoughtfulness that must be based on all those thousands of books that you read.  Clearly, this nation could benefit by having a sound-thinking person like you in the U.S Senate.”

Marshall has been a consistent proponent of securing the nation’s borders against illegal immigration.  He also is opposed to granting amnesty or citizenship to those who enter or remain in the United States illegally.

Marshall, whose campaign website can be found at www.bobmarshall2008.com, said he is “very pleased” with U.S. Border Control’s endorsement, noting that it “underscores one of the important policy differences between my opponent, Jim Gilmore, and me in this race for the nomination.”

As an example, Marshall cited “New politics of immigration,” a Sept. 4, 2001, news article by Mark Benjamin, United Press International’s congressional bureau chief, reporting Gilmore’s support for a program that would have led to U.S. citizenship for aliens illegally in America.  At the time, Gilmore was governor of Virginia and chairman of the Republican National Committee.

“It would be much better,” Gilmore is quoted as saying, “to have a process, built up over time, so that people who are in this country illegally can get legal, so they can find a way to get papers so that they fit into an appropriate system. That way we know where they are. We know what they are doing.  And then it is possible over time that there would be a process by which people would become legal under immigration law, either current or reformed."

In the article, Phil Gramm, then a Republican senator from Texas, said Gilmore’s statement was “like putting up a neon sign: ‘Get to America any way you can and you will be able to stay.’”

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