What Karl Rove Should Tell La Raza

Human Events ^ | 07/10/06 | The Human Events View

[garbageseeker]

White House adviser Karl Rove is scheduled to speak tomorrow at the annual conference of the federally funded, left-wing, open-borders-advocacy group, the National Council of La Raza.

If he does not want his speech to look like an act of appeasement, he should confront La Raza on its opposition to commonsense policies designed to secure both U.S. borders and U.S. pocketbooks.

La Raza, which means “The Race” in Spanish, has denounced as “horrendous” and “appalling” the House immigration bill passed in December, which was sponsored by Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R.-Wis.) and supported by the overwhelming majority of House Republicans. The bill, which calls for tough worksite enforcement of immigration laws and 700 miles of border fencing, was condemned by La Raza as a “laundry list of mean-spirited and intrusive provisions concocted by the most radical immigrations restrictionists in Congress.”

Will Rove defend the immigration reforms passed by President Bush’s party in the House and tell La Raza that House Republicans are neither “mean-spirited” nor “radical”? He should. House Republicans deserve Rove’s support.

[Texasforever]

It's funny because Google has no reference to it beyond her assertion.

[rottndog]

Reagan himself was a dreamer, capable of imagining a world without trade barriers.

A world without TRADE barriers, not a world without BORDERS

See the difference?

Bush doesn't want any borders.

[garbageseeker]

You can write her about it

[Texasforever]

I think their premature victory celebration isn't turning out so good huh?

[rottndog]

Bush IS the worst. Reagan respected national sovereignty. Bush wants to get rid of it.

[Texasforever]

Bush IS the worst. Reagan respected national sovereignty. Bush wants to get rid of it.

LOL Reagan as I showed in the link above wanted to do away with both borders. Who the heck are you kidding?

[Howlin]

Ask "kellynla" for that.

Can't you back up something you posted? If not, why'd you post it?

[Howlin]

And we know what Karl Rove said to J.D. Hayworth... "You just have a problem with brown people."

How about a link to that statement? Got one?

[Luis Gonzalez]

"Just when I thought that I was out they pull me back in."

[Howlin]

I can't remember the last time I've seen this much outright misinformation on one thread.

[Texasforever]

I can, it was the last thread they were on.

[Howlin]

[garbageseeker]

She posted; And we know what Karl Rove said to J.D. Hayworth... "You just have a problem with brown people." on #366 first and I reposted it. So ask her where she got it.

[Howlin]

You just reposted it without knowing whether it was accurate or not?

Good to know.

[rottndog]

I thought the original question was who is worse on immigration.

Again I ask you--What's worse, making a mistake or repeating a known mistake?

[garbageseeker]

She has a lot more weight than you do in this subject.

[Texasforever]

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This can't be good

[Texasforever]

Again I ask you--What's worse, making a mistake or repeating a known mistake?

Well first the "mistake" must be made.

[rottndog]

So, the failed 1986 amnesty wasn't a mistake?

[Luis Gonzalez]

And now, let me speak directly to the young people and the students here. I wonder yet if you've appreciated how unusual -- terribly unusual -- this country of ours is?

I received a letter just before I left office from a man. I don't know why he chose to write it, but I'm glad he did. He wrote that you can go to live in France, but you can't become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Italy, but you can't become a German, an Italian. He went through Turkey, Greece, Japan and other countries. but he said anyone, from any corner of the world, can come to live in the United States and become an American.

Some may call is mysticism if they will, but I cannot help but feel that there was some divine plan that placed this continent here between the two great oceans to be found by people from any corner of the earth -- people who had an extra ounce of desire for freedom and some extra courage to rise up and lead their families, their relatives, their friends, their nations and come here to eventually make this country.

The truth of the matter is, if we take this crowd and if we could go through and ask the heritage, the background of every family represented here, we would probably come up with the names of every country on earth, every corner of the world, and every race. Here, is the one spot on earth where we have the brotherhood of man. And maybe as we continue with this proudly, this brotherhood of man made up from people representative of every corner of the earth, maybe one day boundaries all over the earth will disappear as people cross boundaries and find out that, yes, there is a brotherhood of man in every corner.

Thank you all and God Bless you all.

Ronald Wilson Reagan Westminster College 1990