I never said that Cannon's voting record on immigration wasn't atrocious. What I did say was that Cannon's voting record on immigration is worse than Reagan's. Why do YOU distort my comments. Are you being lazy or are you being disingenuous?
As for the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986, in all honesty, I went along with it. I was wrong. Reagan was wrong.
So Cannon's record on immigration is "atrocious" and Reagan's record on the same is "wrong". LOL! Reagan's record on immigration is worse because it included citizenship amnesty for a large number of illegals.
It was the first comprehensive attempt to face the challenges of immigration reform.
Again, you soft-pedal the Act of '86.
Nine current bills are vying to be Amnesty No. 8
You keep cutting and pasting examples of Cannon and "Amnesty" and you continue to ignore my one-and-only more important point of "Citizenship Amnesty". The forgiveness and the awarding of legal temporary status, with little or no additional adjustment of annual green card quotas is so very different than Reagan's blanket citizenship amnesty, where annual green card quotas were ignored.
All of the bad immigration things that Cannon has advocated doesn't add up to the massive "Citizenship Amnesty" that Reagan signed in 1986.
That's been my only point. Don't cloud the issue, don't misrepresent what I said, don't cut and paste things that are beside the point that I make and do, please do, use your own words instead of massive cut and pastes.
Your comments stand on their own. No need for you to backtrack and obfuscate the issue and there's no need to cover most of the same ground again.
>>>You keep cutting and pasting examples of Cannon and "Amnesty" and you continue to ignore my one-and-only more important point of "Citizenship Amnesty".
I've ignored nothing. However, when you say to someone, "The writer of this article doesn't know his "arse from a whole in the ground", do you?", you open up a can of worms. That's what you did. Next time I suggest, you keep your big mouth shut.
Cutting and pasting is normal behavior for FreeRepublic, especially when you're trying to educate the ignorant. Not only was I the one who posted the article thread, if you look back at the post where I laid out Cannon's voting record, you will see it was not made just to you.
If you find objection to my use of the words "wrong" and "atrocious" in relation to Reagan and the IRCA of 1986, and Chris Cannon's current voting record on amnesty for illegals, respectively, too bad. That was then and this is now. We don't need to repeat the same mistakes the feds made back in 1986. Bush`s recent proposals for immigration reform are based on granting another round of amnesty to illegals. That is bad policy and is heading the nation down the wrong road again. Chris Cannon supports Bush`s proposals. I do not.
In addition. PresReagan went along with granting legal status to illegal aliens, only after demanding that any employer incentives to hire illegal aliens be abolished. This meant that if caught, employers who hired illegals would pay stiff fines. Some considered this overly harsh sanctions, but they were placed into the final version of the legislation. Without them, Reagan would have veto`d it.
The sad part is, eventually people like Ted Kennedy gutted the enforcement mechanism for Reagan's employer sanctions and campigned against giving the Border Patrol those resources required stop the massive border crossings of the late 1980`s and throughout the 1990`s. And it would appear Chris Cannon went along with FatTeddyK.
Guess you overlooked my remarks about the major push being made by AGJOBS coalition, a coalition of organizations and associations promoting cheap labor, to pressure Congress to pass H.R. 3142. HR 3142 is co-sponsored by Reps. Chris Cannon, Howard Berman (D-CA) and the Senate version S.1645, sponsored by Sens. Larry Craig (R-ID) and Ted Kennedy (D-MA). Its an illegal alien amnesty that will doom agricultural workers to poverty and could add up to 3 million to U.S. population
>>> ... please do, use your own words instead of massive cut and pastes.
Is that all you have to say? LOL Why should I rewrite some very fine analysis accomplished by experts on the amnesty and immigration issues. Get a grip bucko.
LOL, if that -- a typo -- is what you base your backtracking comment on then you are desperate.
Reagan had a worse record on immigration -- he gave citizenship amnesty to almost every illegal. Cannon has not done that.