Posted on 07/14/2007 4:59:33 AM PDT by GFritsch
Yes, however, those that simply promote him as the greatest Conservative President and then bash George W Bush over the head... those to me are extremely blind to reality and listen to media and talk radio sound bites instead of doing the investigative leg work.
Welcome to America
A Somali arrives in Minneapolis
as a new immigrant to the United States.He stops the
first person he sees walking down the street and
says, “Thank you Mr. American for letting me in this
country, giving me housing, food stamps, free
medical care, and free education!”
The passerby says, “You are mistaken, I am Mexican.”
The man goes on and encounters another passerby. “ Thank you for
having such a beautiful country here in America
!”The person says, “I not American, I am Vietnamese.”
The new arrival walks further, and the
next person he sees he stops, shakes his hand and
says, “Thank you for the wonderful America !”
That person puts up his hand and says, “I am from the
Middle East , I am not American!”
He finally sees a nice lady and asks, “Are you an American?”She says,
“No, I am from Africa !”Puzzled, he asks her, “Where are all the Americans?”
The African lady checks her watch and says...”Probably at work.”
In all his years of governance, first as Governor of California, then later a President of the United States, Ronald Reagan was governing from a minority position. Many of the things enacted into law under his watch were not his initiative, but the demands of what he saw as the majority, both as individual citizens speaking their minds, and through those representatives whom were sent to sit in the legislative chambers. Thus, we have the seeming contradictory picture of Reagan reluctantly signing a bill in Claifornia legalizing abortion, which apparently was the will of a sufficiently large majority of voters to demand that authority in law.
As far as the amnesty bill of 1986, that also was signed, but with no enthusiasm. In the ensuing years, seeing how poorly THAT experiment worked, one questions the wisdom of passing more legislation which is essentially a reprise of the original proposal.
Promises made on behalf of the original bill, and not kept, go far to make the rest of us extremely wary about buying ANOTHER pig in a poke. Especially when almost exactly the same promises are made with this most recent proposal.
Fix the accursed border. Free the agents who were doing their duty according to the standards they sincerely believed to be in operation. And fire this Johnny Sutton, who single-handedly probably did more to cripple effective border enforcement than all the assaults made on the Border Patrol by all the armed criminals making incursions onto US soil from Mexico.
During the 1950s, however, this “Good Old Boy” system changed under Eisenhower - if only for about 10 years.
In 1954, Ike appointed retired Gen. Joseph “Jumpin’ Joe” Swing, a former West Point classmate and veteran of the 101st Airborne, as the new INS commissioner.
Influential politicians, including Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D) of Texas and Sen. Pat McCarran (D) of Nevada, favored open borders, and were dead set against strong border enforcement, Brownell said. But General Swing’s close connections to the president shielded him - and the Border Patrol - from meddling by powerful political and corporate interests.
One of Swing’s first decisive acts was to transfer certain entrenched immigration officials out of the border area to other regions of the country where their political connections with people such as Senator Johnson
would have no effect.
Then on June 17, 1954, what was called “Operation Wetback” began. Because political resistance was lower in California and Arizona, the roundup of aliens began there. Some 750 agents swept northward through agricultural areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions a day. By the end of July, over 50,000 aliens were caught in the two states. Another 488,000, fearing arrest, had fled the country.
By mid-July, the crackdown extended northward into Utah, Nevada, and Idaho, and eastward to Texas.
By September, 80,000 had been taken into custody in Texas, and an estimated 500,000 to 700,000 illegals had left the Lone Star State voluntarily.
How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico
By John Dillin
Chritian Science Monitor
Now, if you are so dumb, fat, and happy that you expect government lackeys to do your bidding, dream on. They are unionized.
More importantly, you should pay attention to what is really going on. We have run off a lot of illegals and discouraged others from coming. Voila we have a housing slump and a slowing economy. Did you see the piece on women from minimum security prison working the onion fields in CO last night on FOX. They said many had never worked a day in their lives, before. O
Ronald Reagan is still the greatest Conservative President of the United States.
George Bush blindsided us....(we, who were his faithful, loving, hardworking, loyal base)
..and we will have to be ever vigilant until he leaves office.
Because his business pals need plenty of cheap, slave labor and won’t allow it.
Anyone posting so far running for office? For your State Houses or Federal Office?
I suspect that blogger was mixing up two different factors. The 1986 amnesty allowed illegals who were in the U. S. to apply to bring in relatives from their home country (mostly Mexico). Maybe there were 10M applications for that, but the only figure I had heard before this was 1.7 million applications from those who were already here. See http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1045921/posts
The point is, there’s a difference between the number of applications, including those for relatives to come in, and the number of illegals who were already here at the time.
Note that I’m not defending President Reagan for signing that bill in 1986. The enforcement promises then were as false as they are today. The 1986 bill was a huge mistake, generated by Kennedy lies.
This, IMO, is the ONLY way to approach the problem. Each local law enforcement organization must enforce the laws in their small segment of America. It is totally unrealistic for the Bush Bashers on this forum to expect one man to instantly round up and deport that many illegals - especially when we don’t really know who and where they are. Little by little, illegals would get the message. President Bush has not changed his stance on immigration since he first ran for POTUS. Although I certainly did not agree with the 2007 bill and am so thankful that it did not pass, many presidents and congresses have chosen to ignore the problem completely. BTW, this was the first time that I ever called a Senator’s office. Senator Burr (NC) voted yes on the first cloture vote but no on the all-important second one.
Thanks for posting the laws that our worthless PC government will never enforce. They want amnesty or nothing!
I like the way you think.
Thanks for posting #24.
If they would prosecute the employers and cut off the jobs, most of them would go home.
Why was your comment removed???!!!
Steve Sailer had the best explanation of why American politicians like the idea of Mexican immigration much more than non-politicians do.
It’s because Mexicans tolerate much more political corruption than Americans.
By Bush’s thinking, we need about 100 million more poor, uneducated, unskilled and uncultured immigrants, illegal or legal to reshape America into a globalist utopia. Why would he want to deport anyone now?
We are being invaded and the President of the United States says that we can not protect the country.
I love softballs...
This is known as the "big lie" combined with the "self-fulfilling prophecy".
Convince yourself that you will fail, and sure enough...
We are being invaded and We have to stop this by any and all means possible before it's too late.
The reconquistas can all go to hell!
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