Another flip-flop from Mitt Romney? Yep — this time on illegal immigration.

The Boston Globe reports that Romney invaded John McCain's home state of Arizona this week, where he held a press conference with Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who's a hero for anti-immigration types because he likes rounding up illegal immigrants. According to The Globe, Romney said:

"My view is there should be no advantage for those that are here illegally in pursuing a course of permanent residency." He added that he also opposes a guest-workers program on the grounds that it would "substantially increase the number of individuals who would come through on a temporary worker basis and open a path for citizenship for them, as well."

The red-meat anti-immigration remarks were very similar to what Romney said a few weeks ago at CPAC, where he bashed the "McCain-Kennedy" immigration policy and proclaimed to great applause, "amnesty didn't work 20 years ago, and it won't work today."

But were these always Romney's views of the issue? Nope. More after the jump.

Check out what he said back in 2005, in an interview with editors and writers at the Globe. Romney opined at the time that it would not be "practical or economic for the country" to deport all illegal immigrants, and here's what he had to say about the citizenship-pathway proposals being offered at the time by President Bush and McCain:

"They require people signing up for, registering and receiving, if you will, a number, a registration number, then working here for six years and paying taxes, not taking benefits — health, Medicaid, food stamps — and so on, not taking benefits, and then at the end of that period, registering to become a citizen or applying to become a citizen and paying a fee. And those are things that are being considered. I think those are reasonable proposals."

To hear the 2005 comments, and his recent denunciation of those same policies at CPAC, go to the Globe's article. They have some mp3's embedded in their piece, and you can listen for yourself.