What I don't get is, that this took place when technology was on the rise, unskilled jobs and labor intensive jobs were (continue to be) on the decline.
What sort of thinking was involved here? Were cheap and unskilled foreign workers capable of filling the 'new' jobs?
lol
nice revisionist history there!
1. It’s been Democrats from the get go that have pushed for illegal aliens to be made citizens
2. A Democrat, Bill Clinton signed NAFA.
The Republicans haven’t fought as hard as they should have, but make no mistake this mess (like all messes) lies slap dap in the middle of the Democrats laps.
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God."
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
If the GOP is complicit in this amnesty fiasco, either by taking up the Senate bill or through some piecemeal slight of hand with a series of House bills such as we hear are being cooked up of late, the GOP will cease to exist. It will not survive through the 2016 elections. The people will shun the over-tanned, glad-handing, backslapping quislings and look elsewhere for leaders who actually have the spine for the fight. Make no mistake - to me and to many, many others, amnesty is the GOP's Rubicon. Cross it at your electoral peril.
How?
By trying to out democrat the democrats.
One word: demographics.
I posted and was flamed many times that if we continued to offshore, we’d lower the standard of living to the point where Americans would gladly vote for a Marxist.
We’re beaten, but we did it to ourselves.
Although I'm sure the corporatist scoffers will try.
The G.O.P. (Grand Old Progressives) teamed with U.S.A. (United Socialists of America) to destroy the republic.
Deceit, hidden-agendas, fraud, bullying, mandating, looting & plundering by an elitist cabal of criminals.
There are a lot of CON$ervatives. Are there ANY conservatives who identify the problem? ANY?
Nice try Pat Buchanan, but the root cause of the 1986 Amnesty Debacle was a lack of punishment for the Illegal Alien Invaders from Mexico by Federal authorities.
Now the States will take matters into their own hands, and all Hell will break loose.
Once again the US Federal Government has chosen to ignore their own laws.
There is that tired old number again. It was maybe 12 million when daddy Bush was prez, probably looking at a minimum of 40 million now.
So are they going to deport the other 28 million?
How about closing the frigging border? We have known there was a major porosity problem down there since Eisenhower, and it still isn't anything close to secure.
Will this legislation include all the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas/Hizb'allah types or just the Mexicans?
Something wicked this way comes...
Democrats only want the voters. Some Republicans wanted cheap labor.
Not enough free stuff
Now they are going to pick up seats due to Obama being a disaster, but they will think it is because they are such a great success and not because they are simply the lesser of two evils.
We need conservatives to speak and act win or lose.