Chris Christie: The GOP is guilty of sounding unwelcoming on immigration

“My party, quite frankly, has been guilty in some respects of speaking in a way that doesn’t sound very welcoming to new members,” Christie said. “In New Jersey, part of what we said was that we had to start a new day in the relationship between the governor, as the leader of the Republican Party in New Jersey, and all the different communities in our state.”

But he did not address his own recent statements about immigration that suggest he no longer wishes to welcome illegal immigrants into the United States. Last month, he spoke out against a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants, telling Fox News that it would be “an extreme way to go,” despite having supported just such a pathway in 2010.