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A Reagan Legacy: Amnesty For Illegal Immigrants(An article from NPR, July 10, 2010)
NPR ^ | July 4, 2010 | NPR Staff

Posted on 08/20/2011 1:39:45 PM PDT by bubbacluck

Peter Robinson, a former Reagan speechwriter, agrees. "It was in Ronald Reagan's bones — it was part of his understanding of America — that the country was fundamentally open to those who wanted to join us here."

Reagan said as much himself in a televised debate with Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale in 1984.

"I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and lived here, even though sometime back they may have entered illegally," he said.

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"He was a Californian," Robinson says. "You couldn't live in California ... without encountering over and over and over again good, hard-working, decent people — clearly recent arrivals from Mexico."

That the U.S. failed to regain control of the border — making the 1986 law's amnesty provision an incentive for others to come to America illegally — would have infuriated Reagan, Robinson says.

"But I think he would have felt taking those 3 million people and making them Americans was a success."

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; mistakes; reagan
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To: Sudetenland
If anything, Perry is more conservative than Reagan ever was.

I doubt Reagan would have promoted bi national health insurance to care for "border dwellers" who have limited financial means.
21 posted on 08/20/2011 2:23:11 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin)
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To: Elendur

Thank you!


22 posted on 08/20/2011 2:23:15 PM PDT by b9
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To: b9

So you are citing a FR post of a blog post to buttress your argument that Perry is a POS Commie? Wow.


23 posted on 08/20/2011 2:26:45 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Lazlo in PA; Brices Crossroads

Yup


24 posted on 08/20/2011 2:32:16 PM PDT by b9
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To: Sudetenland

You are wrong. It wasn’t as big of an issue. There wasn’t the backlash in 1986 that there was in 2007, when they tried to pass that amnesty bill. Secondly, there weren’t as many illegals in the country in 1986, so it couldn’t have been as big of an issue.


25 posted on 08/20/2011 2:33:07 PM PDT by Politics4US
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To: b9
LOL!!! Some clown's vanity citing Gellar's already disproven lies? Really?

Try this one: Rick Perry is not the 5th Column Candidate

Or this one: Debunking the Rick Perry "Pro-Sharia" School Curriculum Myth"

Learn the facts before you post garbage that is not factual and cannot stand scrutiny.
26 posted on 08/20/2011 2:36:36 PM PDT by Sudetenland (There can be no freedom without God--What man gives, man can take away.)
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To: liege

I fail to see how NPR has any standing whatsoever to use certain actions or statements of Ronald Reagan to lecture modern-day conservatives about anything.

My preferred response to this would be to lecture leftards on their own failings, using Ronald Reagan’s actions and statements to demolish their agendas.


27 posted on 08/20/2011 2:39:33 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: liege
Not to make excuses for President Reagan but I think, back then, people who came here illegally LOVED America and WANTED to become Americans.

Whereas, today, illegals HATE America, they don't want to become Americans. They want America to be just another Mexico.

Idiots.

28 posted on 08/20/2011 2:41:21 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Sudetenland

Sorry, pal.

This makes more sense.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2764459/posts?page=4#4


29 posted on 08/20/2011 2:44:48 PM PDT by b9
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To: liege
I can paraphrase this pretty easy for you.



LEAVE RICK PERRY ALONE! LEAVE HIM ALONE!
30 posted on 08/20/2011 3:02:08 PM PDT by CowboyJay
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To: liege

How nice of NPR to write about what Reagan believed in -— when it fit’s their narrative of course.


31 posted on 08/20/2011 3:12:00 PM PDT by JaguarXKE
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To: b9
I guess that's why Perry has such close relationships with Israel and why they like him so much.

More half-truths from Perry haters.
32 posted on 08/20/2011 3:17:37 PM PDT by Sudetenland (There can be no freedom without God--What man gives, man can take away.)
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To: liege

Reagan was wrong on amnesty. He later regretted that decision.


33 posted on 08/20/2011 3:17:37 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: liege

If Mexico was filled with very conservative white people who were sneaking into this country by the millions would NPR be so “open border”? Not.


34 posted on 08/20/2011 3:19:19 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Cheetahcat
I liked Eisenhower's method of dealing with this pestilence!

I only wish that they would've locked down the border with a fence after Operation Wetback...when the country still had a spine and stomach for such actions. California might even be a livable place today.

35 posted on 08/20/2011 3:22:56 PM PDT by Azzurri
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To: liege
You don't have to deport them.

Just don't give them jobs or free health care or government checks and they will head home.

36 posted on 08/20/2011 3:28:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.)
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To: Azzurri

Agreed.
California is no longer what it once was.
It used to be heaven.


37 posted on 08/20/2011 3:39:12 PM PDT by Jennikins (We are being ruled, not governed.)
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To: JaguarXKE
My point in presenting this article was that whoever our candidate is, they are going to have flaws. We all do. Does the candidate have fatal flaws or do I just not see eye to eye on certain non-critical issues?

If I remember correctly, Reagan had three big hitters: destroy the Soviet Union, build up the military, and lower taxes. As long as he stood true to those three, he could be forgiven the extraneous stuff.

This country is at a point now where we may have to take some bad with mostly good in our candidate. The times do not dictate being real picky and choosy about a candidate's bonafides.

He should have some demonstrated core values.

38 posted on 08/20/2011 3:39:20 PM PDT by bubbacluck (Proud Hobbit with no intention of going back to Middle Earth.)
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To: Azzurri

Agreed.
California is no longer what it once was.
It used to be heaven.


39 posted on 08/20/2011 3:41:58 PM PDT by Jennikins (We are being ruled, not governed.)
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To: Azzurri

Agreed.
California is no longer what it once was.
It used to be heaven.


40 posted on 08/20/2011 3:42:10 PM PDT by Jennikins (We are being ruled, not governed.)
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