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  Tea Party Hates Reagan Now

  Former President Ronald Reagan discusses immigration reform, amnesty, and the plight of undocumented workers. ...And to think, those lunatics who want to close the borders and kick out everyone with darker skin than theirs and then turn around and hail like a god, a man who said with all the passion in his heart "I believe in Amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here, even though sometime back, they may have entered illegally." How I wish the Republican party was half as like Reagan as they think they are. He'd be disgusted by them now. They'd call him a Democrat or Rhino. “Reagan, who raised taxes over and over again, and tripled the deficit. He couldn’t win this nomination of President on the conservative side in 2011-2012".

  From ErniePyle on: 9/8/11views: 956
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  Why the Tea Party Now Hates Reagan & Bush

  Candidates Ronald Reagan & George Bush-41 Discuss Illegal Immigration in 1980 Debate. The candidates are asked a question about the children of Illegal Immigrants attending public schools in 1980...and both give reasonable answers that the Tea Party Republicans would call un-patriotic and anti-conservative.

  From ErniePyle on: 9/8/11views: 916
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  Building a 21st Century Immigration System

  The President calls for a bipartisan approach to fixing a broken immigration system and explains why immigration reform is critical to building a 21st century economy in a speech in El Paso, Texas. May 10th, 2011.

  From ErniePyle on: 5/12/11views: 1334
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  Republicans Block Reform + Arizona's Racist Roots

  4/28/2010 America's Headline of the Week. Calls to boycott Arizona grow over new "Paper's Please" law. Will Other States Follow Arizona's extreme right track on Immigration? Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said yesterday "It's not a great time to take this issue up in Washington." 4/26/2010 Rachel gives brief follow up on recent AZ Immigration Law with background on those that wrote the new law. Americans may or may not be surprised to learn what usual suspects are behind this bonehead move... Many Republicans have now flip floped on this issue over the past 48 hours after Tea Party sensation Marco Rubio has spoken out against it. ---------------------- Last Friday Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed a Republican backed bill into law that will require law enforcement officers to perform documentation checks on people in Arizona. This is the result of Arizona’s frustration with the lack of help from the federal government with the states ever more violent illegal immigrant problem. Arizona has valid points and concerns – recently a rancher was murdered on his property in the border lands and the violence in the Mexican drug cartels has increased. Ciudad Juarez – just across the border from El Paso, TX has become a war zone and businesses have packed up shop and left town. These facts aside, the methods that Arizona has just passed into law are troublesome. Immigration policy is under federal jurisdiction – this is not something like gambling or motor vehicle laws that are in bailiwick of state government. The United States cannot have 50 states creating their own immigration policies or requiring all sorts of documentation that would allow a person to be legal in one region but not in another. Although Arizona’s new law has safeguards in place to prevent racial profiling it is not difficult to see where this is heading. Officers will be able to stop Latinos at will to “check their papers.” People who have forgot their papers will be subject to arrest and deportation – although it is unclear to this writer how a state can get the power or right to deport. This is the type of harassment that our nation has gone to war over – defeating fascism in World War II and while fighting communism in the Cold War. Of course, we happily look the other way when it is in our “interest” to have a blind eye (Saudi Arabia comes to mind.) The new law in Arizona is likely to be struck down by the United States Supreme Court if for no other reason than that it is giving the states power in an area reserved for the federal government. Arizona has fired the opening salvo on behalf of the Border States as a wake up call to the federal government – enforce our borders, come up with a new, workable immigration plan or expect the states to try and take the situation into their own hands. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) has put this topic high on his list of things to get done in the coming weeks. We can only hope that he is serious and plans to work in a bi-partisan way to get this done. There is much doubt that anything will be done – Reid is pandering to the Latino population of his home state and there are so many ideas from the ultra liberal to the ultra strict on how the country should tackle this ever present problem that a compromise with our current set of leaders seems to be a long shot at best. The problem needs to be solved but not at the expense of common sense and individual rights that this country has fought for and defended for over 200 years. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Latest -"A volatile issue neither party wanted to fight over just before important midterm congressional elections." http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/us/politics/28immig.html?partner=rss&emc=rss http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/04/28/2010-04-28_meghan_mccain_criticizes_arizonas_antiillegal_immigrant_law_as_dad_sen_john_mcca.html http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0428-arizona-boycott-20100428,0,3848260.story http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20003648-503544.html

  From ErniePyle on: 4/28/10views: 714