Close the border, start rounding up the illegals and send them back or put them in prison and the vast majority of illegals will leave. Anyone who does this will probably get the majority vote.
Yet she supports McCain who loves amnesty. Go figger? Which is it Sarah?
McCain-Kennedy, remember that?
I guess it is hard to just say, close borders and enforce existing law. Get rid of law supporting anchor babies and deny freebies.
“Palin made it very clear that immigration may be the one substantive issue around which she has a tight grip.”
Oh, no. She doesn’t know anything important. If she knows something, it can’t be important. Because, after all, she knows it.
Here’s what I know: Re-Elect Palin 2016
Sarah needs to extricate herself from the wreckage of Juan McVain, a man who stands for his own aggrandizement and nothing else. That would help her think a little more clearly on issues like amnesty and open borders.
That’s so misleading as to be a misquote. The only illegals she was advocating being deported were those who didn’t register for amnesty. (Though she wouldn’t call it ‘amnesty’.)
I don’t think Reagan loved amnesty. I think he gave in on a couple of issues in order to get what he wanted done on others, and this was one of them.
The deal was, that if amnesty was extended to the illegals who were already settled in the country (far fewer than now), then that would be the end of it, and no more amnesties would be extended.
Of course, the Democrats were lying through their teeth about that, and Reagan should have known better to trust them on anything. Perhaps he did, but thought that defeating the Soviet Union or lowering taxes by 30% across the board were more important.
Anyway, as I think Sarah understands, the whole business was a clear warning to conservatives never to do it again.
The only reason Reagan botched it was because the Democrats stabbed him in the back. As usual.
That was also the year they reformed the tax code taking away major deductions in exchange for lower tax rates. Democrats bent us over on that one too.
I like SP but was disappointed in her remarks on BOR. The immigration problem could be solved in 90 days if anybody had the stones to do it. Put full page ads in all public/broadcast/cable/ethnic papers/magazines/tv stations/ethnic neighborhoods stating that as of pick-a-date (90/120 days) anyone that could not immediately prove their legal presence in America when requested to do so would be sent to a internment camp until they were transported out of the country. I say that there would be a mass migration south and the vast majority of illegals would self deport with their minor children who were born here because after all they don’t want to separate families. These people got here on their own dime and they can go back home on their own dime.
Having said that - I also like the idea of removing legal and constitutional protections as to education/services etc etc. The idea is to make it too uncomfortable for them to want to stay here.
Reagan trusted the Democrats to keep their part of the bargain.
Big Mistake.
You can’t trust a Democrat, ever.
I could wile away the hours
Conferrin’ with the flowers
Consultin’ with the rain
And my head I’d be scratchin’
While my thoughts were busy hatchin’
If I only had a brain
It should also be illegal to knowingly accept a vote from an illegal or any alien..
Realistically, we are not going to be deporting long time ‘residents’ with US citizen children. Even if we could, huge sections of many cities in the SW would become ghost towns with all the problems attached. We should trade amnesty with fines for some in return for true border security, deportation of many, an end to government services for illegals and the automatic citizenship for children born to illegals in the future.
A comprehensive Proposal for US Southern Border Enforcement
http://www.jeffhead.com/secureborder/
Just need to clear up that subject to the jurisdiction of the USA does not include people who are here illegally. Their jurisdiction for the purposes of citizenship is the country for which their parents are citizens.