Fiorina dodges position on legalization

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Carly Fiorina, the Republican standard-bearer in the effort to unseat Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, held a Latino-themed town hall in Sacramento on Saturday afternoon and unveiled a new Spanish-language websitein her bid to win Latino votes.

The former Hewlett-Packard executive did not, however, take a stance on a path to legalization for the estimated millions of illegal immigrants already in the United States. “First, we have to secure the border,” she stressed. Next, the country needs “a temporary worker program that works,” she added.

“This is a failure of the first order on the federal government’s part,” Fiorina said. And she’s insisted she won’t mutter a word about legalization until it’s fixed. “There is no point in talking about anything else until we get these first things done,” she said.

-- Shane Goldmacher in Sacramento