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d;1065800322]Yes, the problem is that last time we granted the amnesty but never finished securing the border. Hopefully we have learned from that mistake. Tell me why do you feel that these 11 million should be allowed to stay here and work? If I break into your house, will you let me live there?[/QUOTE]
Didn't you read what Reagan himself said? Apparently not. AGAIN:
It was in Ronald Reagan's bones — it was part of his understanding of America — that the country was fundamentally open to those who wanted to join us here."
Reagan said as much himself in a televised debate with Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale in 1984.
"I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and lived here, even though sometime back they may have entered illegally," he said.
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Robinson says Reagan's own diaries show the president found the idea of a militantly staffed border fence difficult to take. In a private meeting with then-President Jose Lopez Portillo of Mexico in 1979, Reagan wrote that he hoped to discuss how the United States and Mexico could make the border "something other than the location for a fence."
These days, Republicans are also calling for existing laws to be toughened up, which Reagan would have agreed with, Robinson says. In fact, Robinson says, he would have been so upset at the federal government's failure to make good on the 1986 reform that he would have demanded for that law to be fixed first before instituting a new overhaul.
In other words, Reagan himself supported allowing the millions who have ALREADY made lives for themselves and their families here to stay here...and THEN fix the law AND enforce the law...but do NOT ruin the lives millions of hard-working human beings (and yes, the great majority of them ARE honest and hard-working). Heck, if y'all had a candidate that had half the common sense on immigration that Reagan did, you'd be looking at majority support from the (already socially-conservative) Hispanics...and that candidate would win.
But you don't have such a candidate. Your party has gone far to the right of Reagan, and you've all lost your way back.
Didn't you read what Reagan himself said? Apparently not. AGAIN:
It was in Ronald Reagan's bones — it was part of his understanding of America — that the country was fundamentally open to those who wanted to join us here."
Reagan said as much himself in a televised debate with Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale in 1984.
"I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and lived here, even though sometime back they may have entered illegally," he said.
...
Robinson says Reagan's own diaries show the president found the idea of a militantly staffed border fence difficult to take. In a private meeting with then-President Jose Lopez Portillo of Mexico in 1979, Reagan wrote that he hoped to discuss how the United States and Mexico could make the border "something other than the location for a fence."
These days, Republicans are also calling for existing laws to be toughened up, which Reagan would have agreed with, Robinson says. In fact, Robinson says, he would have been so upset at the federal government's failure to make good on the 1986 reform that he would have demanded for that law to be fixed first before instituting a new overhaul.
In other words, Reagan himself supported allowing the millions who have ALREADY made lives for themselves and their families here to stay here...and THEN fix the law AND enforce the law...but do NOT ruin the lives millions of hard-working human beings (and yes, the great majority of them ARE honest and hard-working). Heck, if y'all had a candidate that had half the common sense on immigration that Reagan did, you'd be looking at majority support from the (already socially-conservative) Hispanics...and that candidate would win.
But you don't have such a candidate. Your party has gone far to the right of Reagan, and you've all lost your way back.
eace
