Romney Insider: Candidate Faking Immigration Position

An adviser to Mitt Romney is now claiming that the likely Republican nominee is faking his immigration position.

According to a Weekly Standard report from conservative writer Fred Barnes, an adviser close to the Massachusetts millionaire expressed the sentiment that “[Romney's] private view of immigration isn’t as anti-immigrant as he often sounded.”

During the 2012 nomination campaign, Romney often pandered to the anti-immigrant faction within the Republican party. Romney attacked Texas governor Rick Perry for his comment that anti-immigration hardliners are “heartless.” The creator of Arizona’s controversial anti-immigration law said that he and Romney were “identical” in their approaches towards the subject.

Romney himself claimed that he reacted to a company he hired using undocumented workers by telling them, “I’m running for office, for Pete’s sake, we can’t have illegals.”