2022 AL Senate race: on Immigration


Brandaun Dean: As mayor, declared Brighton, Alabama a sanctuary city

Dean cited a number of accomplishments during his brief tenure as Mayor of Brighton including:
Source: Alabama Political Reporter on 2022 Alabama Senate race Jul 20, 2021

Lynda Blanchard: Trump not to blame for border crisis; build the wall!

Joe Biden's attempts to blame President Trump for the border crisis not only demonstrate a glaring lack of accountability but also that there is no plan to solve the problem they created. It's as if they can't be bothered with our safety. Build the wall!
Source: Facebook posting for 2022 Alabama Senate race May 9, 2021

Mike Durant: Build the wall, no pathway to citizenship for "illegals"

Mike Durant believes we need to build the wall that President Trump started, but Joe Biden suspended. He opposes any pathway to citizenship that rewards law breakers and would deport illegals back to their country of origin, forcing them to come here through legal channels.
Source: 2022 Alabama Senate campaign website MikeDurant.com Mar 30, 2022

Mo Brooks: Don't flood labor market with cheap foreign labor

Q: Is there the possibility of you coming to common ground with Democrats on a comprehensive immigration reform package?

Brooks: I sure hope not, because the socialists support open borders and have no intent to compromise on border security. Any compromise with them would be a sellout. We had a compromise with the socialist Democrats in 1986. President Reagan gave amnesty and the socialists then broke their word and never gave the promised border security.

Q: In the last election, the Alabama Farmers Federation did not endorse you. Have you patched things up with them?

Brooks: My positions are unchanged. I don't support flooding the American labor market with cheap foreign labor hurting struggling American families nor am I comfortable with the tens of billions of dollars in food stamps and farm subsidies that farm bureau insists I support at a time America suffers from a debt burden that risks a debilitating national insolvency and bankruptcy that would do great damage to American lives.

Source: Alabama Political Reporter on 2022 Alabama Senate race Mar 25, 2021

Will Boyd: Pathway to citizenship; undocumented shouldn't have to leave

In a recent questionnaire on the election website VoteSmart, Will Boyd, the leading Democratic contender for Sen. Shelby's U.S. Senate seat, said he didn't think undocumented immigrants should have to leave the country before acquiring U.S. citizenship. He also said he believed in a pathway to citizenship.
Source: The Reckon Report on 2022 Alabama Senate race May 16, 2022

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Candidates and political leaders on Immigration:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R)
Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R)
Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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