[SMARTY]

“Corporate America was going global and wanted to be rid of its American work force, the best paid on earth, and replace it with cheap foreign labor.”

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?

[TexasFreeper2009]

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.

[Paine in the Neck]

An open letter to the GOP Members of Congress

As a Member of Congress, you took this Oath:

"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."

"Support and defend the Constitution" it says. Did you see that? That document requires, per Art.4, S.4, that

"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."

An invasion is what we are suffering. That invasion has accelerated with each "comprehensive immigration reform" previously enacted. Instead of another disastrous reform that yet again increases the incentives for millions more to try their luck crossing the southern border, a Representative who took his Oath and the Constitution seriously would be pressing for what the American people have repeatedly said they want - not what Senators Schumer and McCain, Mark Zuckerberg, Mexico, some border state farmers and homebuilders or the Chamber of Commerce rent-seekers want. That is:

1. secure the border in a transparently verifiable way;
2. end the anchor-baby interpretation of the 14th Amendment;
3. enforce eVerify without exception and with severe penalties;
4. no government benefits beyond critical emergency care (and that ought to be billed back to the home government); and
5. NO "Path to Citizenship" - ever - for anyone who has entered the US illegally.

Any bill that does not accomplish these five things is unacceptable. It is de facto amnesty. And it will inevitably encourage millions more illegal entries.

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.

[Darksheare]

How?
By trying to out democrat the democrats.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

One word: demographics.

[brownsfan]

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.

[skeeter]

There's no denying the facts of what has happened over the past 30 years (and its obvious results).

Although I'm sure the corporatist scoffers will try.

[PGalt]

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?

[Graewoulf]

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.

[Smokin' Joe]

The GOP will agree to halt the deportation of 12 million illegal aliens, and sign on to a blanket amnesty.

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...

[ObamahatesPACoal]

Democrats only want the voters. Some Republicans wanted cheap labor.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Not enough free stuff

[A CA Guy]

They don't stand for anything but moving left for the Democrats, so they are Democrat-lite.

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.