Jan Ting in State of Delaware Archives
On Government Reform:
Lobbyists should not be allowed to donate to legislators
TING: I’m outraged at the campaign financing system which allows a 1st-term Senator like Tom Carper to raise millions of dollars from special interests and lobbyists, including Jack Abramoff & his clients. It’s an outrage that people whose profession is
affecting our legislation are allowed to give money to our legislators. If you think it’s ok, support Tom Carper. If you want change, vote for Jan Ting. CARPER: I’ve never received any money from clients of Jack Abramoff and I hope Mr. Ting knows that
Source: Delaware 2006 Senate Debate, hosted by WHYY-TV
Oct 20, 2006
On Immigration:
Comprehensive immigration reform is a defeatist solution
TING: The immigration system is completely broken down. Every night of the year thousands of people cross our borders. Laws that are not enforced are not really laws. A nation that can’t defend its own borders is not really a nation. The solution that
Sen. Carper has proposed, which he calls comprehensive immigration reform, amounts to an amnesty with Social Security credit for illegal aliens, and permission for them to bring their families into the US, immediately, without numerical limits, from
anywhere in the world. I think that’s a defeatist solution and frankly I don’t think that’s a solution at all. One amnesty will simply lead to another. If we want open borders, then we ought to support Sen. Carper’s plan. If we want to maintain control
of our borders, and defend the most generous legal immigration system in the world, then vote for Jan Ting.CARPER: It’s unlawful for illegal aliens to receive Social Security. They can’t do it under the law [nor the comprehensive immigration reform].
Source: Delaware 2006 Senate Debate, hosted by WHYY-TV
Oct 20, 2006
On Principles & Values:
Things are broken in Washington DC, and I’m outraged
I’m in this race because I’m convinced that things are broken in Washington DC. The people that are there, both Democrats and Republicans, have been doing nothing about it. I’m concerned about the big problems that exist in our society-Social Security,
Medicare, & healthcare generally-all of which are headed for a train wreck. The problems are much more serious, even, than we perceive them to be. I’m convinced that this current partisan atmosphere is not one that is conducive to the big solution needed
Source: Delaware 2006 Senate Debate, hosted by WHYY-TV
Oct 20, 2006
On War & Peace:
Cooperate with China and Russia on North Korea
Q: What would be the next move to calm the North Korea situation?CARPER: Now that North Korea is where it is, we ought to talk with them and engage them directly.
TING: The reality is that we’re talking to the North Koreas all the time, formally
and informally. So that channel of communication is open. The key to any of our plans succeeding in North Korea is the cooperation of China and Russia. We ought to remember how Communism dissolved in Eastern Europe. In our contingency planning, we
ought to think about how people can get out of North Korea. We need to reassure China that they won’t be stuck with a million refugees. We ought to have alternatives in North Korea instead of only military solutions.
CARPER: We had a West Germany and
an East Germany, and we were able to keep the lid on there long enough until they could become one country again. Our challenge with North Korea is to keep the lid on until those natural family attractions can go together and create one country.
Source: Delaware 2006 Senate Debate, hosted by WHYY-TV
Oct 20, 2006
On Abortion:
Supports parental notification, opposes late-term abortions
Ting is guarded about his stance on abortion. Asked repeatedly if he supports a woman’s right to choose abortion, Ting would not say yes or no. He said he supports parental notification for minors, opposes late-term abortions and that the issue belongs
before the U.S. Supreme Court. While he personally opposes abortion, Ting said, he has been on both sides of the “complicated’’ legal issue. Pressed for more clarity, he said: ”Jan Ting has given you his views. I’m not willing to put a label on myself.’’
Source: Cris Barrish, The Delaware News Journal, “Republican issues”
Sep 3, 2006
On Government Reform:
Pledges not to serve more than two six-year terms
All three [Republican Senate primary candidates] brandish conservative credentials. They agree taxes should not be raised.
They think U.S. troops should stay in Iraq until its government is stable. And all have pledged not to serve more than two six-year terms.
Source: Cris Barrish, The Delaware News Journal, “Republican issues”
Sep 3, 2006
On Immigration:
San Diego fence works--extend it to entire Mexican border
The son of Chinese immigrants, Ting has made toughening immigration controls his key theme. Ting opposes a bill approved in May by Carper and the Senate by a 63-36 vote that would allow illegal immigrants who have been here at least five years to become
citizens after paying fines, fees and taxes, and learning English. Those here two to five years would return to their native county and apply to return, but those here less than two years would have to leave. Nor does Ting think beefing up current border
security would stem the tide of illegal immigrants, now estimated at 12 million. “That’s not going to work unless we’re going to lay hands across America 24/7.” What America needs, Ting believes, is a fence along much-if not all-of the Mexican border.
He notes that a 14-mile-long fence in San Diego has reduced the flood of undocumented immigrants into California to a trickle. “It’s been dramatic,’’ Ting said. ”People were moving away from San Diego because they couldn’t stand the crime.’’
Source: Cris Barrish, The Delaware News Journal, “Republican issues”
Sep 3, 2006
On Principles & Values:
Profession: Law professor and immigration commissioner
Ting is a Michigan native who moved from Philadelphia’s Main Line to the Alapocas neighborhood west of Wilmington in 1984 when his wife, a physician, opened a Delaware practice. Ting has long been a tenured professor at the Temple University law school i
Philadelphia and is currently a visiting professor at Widener University School of Law in Talleyville. Under the first President Bush, he was an assistant commissioner - one of the top 10 officials - in the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Source: Cris Barrish, The Delaware News Journal, “Republican issues”
Sep 3, 2006
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