Immigration and the GOP Is it still the party of Reagan, or of Tom Tancredo?

Wall Street Journal ^ | 3/31/2006 | Review and OUtlook

[UNflagburner]

If those who are paid to enforce the traffic laws refuse to do so, then no, we have no traffic laws.

Ahh. So your argument is that the border patrol is a figure of my imagination.

What part of that don't you understand, newbie?

Well, you geniuses argue that $2000 for violating a civil statute is amnesty. And by that logic traffic violators are getting amnesty, since all they get is a fine and no deportation. And many go on to keep breaking the law as a result.

So does the stop sign exist and does it have meaning?

[4Freedom]

"...built up our defenses..."

The key word in that sentence is "our"!

That was Reagan's first thought and Bush the 'one-worlder's' last thought, if he even thinks it at all.

That's the difference.

Bush is spending our tax dollars like a drunken Liberal to secure Israel's borders, Iraq's borders, Afghanistan's borders, South Korea's borders, Bosnia's borders, etc., etc. ad nauseum and he does nothing for our own borders.

[sinkspur]

Was a party of REAGAN, now a party of and united behind TANCREDO.

You're delusional. Tancredo's "nuke Mecca" remarks have eliminated him, forever, from serious contenders for the White House.

[sinkspur]

Bush is spending our tax dollars like a drunken Liberal to secure Israel's borders, Iraq's borders, Afghanistan's borders, South Korea's borders, Bosnia's borders, etc., etc. ad nauseum and he does nothing for our own borders.

This sounds nice, but it's completely wrong.

[4Freedom]

How is it wrong? Our tax dollars are going to all of those countries and their borders are being secured and ours are not.

In Afghanistan we've spent around a billion dollars on border patrol stations, fencing and border patrol agents.

Who do you think paid for South Korea's fence and mine fields and whose troops are protecting their borders?

Do you think Israel's fence or Israel itself would exist without our continued financial assistance?

Who do you think is picking up the lion's share of the bill for security in Bosnia?

[4Freedom]

This news just in:

Bush has ordered 1,000 new orange cones to be placed along our southern border!

The terrorists and smugglers are ROTFLTAO!

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

TANCREDO-RICE '08!

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

En Español:
¡TANCREDO-RICE '08!

[Edit35]

...continue in the Reagan tradition of American optimism and faith in assimilation.

optomism and faith in assimilation!!

I still have it, and that's exactly WHY I am opposed to this blanket guest-worker-amnesty farce.

These new border jumpers have no more desire to assimilate than does a jellyfish desire to breath on land.

[LibLieSlayer]

Actually, he didn't like him very much. Reykjavik is proof that he knew Gorby's true self.

LLS

[Edit35]

..tancredo ... has never worked in a wealth creating business in his life.

Wha????

Oh, so only business owners are qualified to pass legislation??

That's the same ol' tired logic libs use that 'men aren't qualified to have an opinion on abortion' or 'caucasians aren't qualified to have an opinion on racism.'

It's bass ackwards.

[Dane]

Oh, so only business owners are qualified to pass legislation??

No but it does give a mindset to his somewhat anti-business rhetoric in which he has no experience of meeting a payroll or producing a good product or service.

[4Freedom]

Ronald Reagan would have taken 'W' to the woodshed about $2 TRILLION DOLLARS in additional National Debt ago.

'W' still wouldn't be able to sit down.

[Edit35]

Surely this means that the 20+ million hispanics who came to this country to live a better life represent an immanent threat to our sovereignty.

Are you really trying to claim that you see no difference in the loyalty and demeanor of the new crop of hispanic border jumpers compared to the immigrants who came to this country in the early 20th century?

[Edit35]

The only God they (WSJ) worship is the golden calf.

C'mon. I despise the WSJ open border types as much as the rest, but we should leave their personal religious beliefs out of the fight, dontcha think?

[LibLieSlayer]

Ronald Reagan would have fought the WOT whatever the cost. Reagan knew something about spending for defense (and deficits)! You should enroll in a community college and take some remedial AMERICAN HISTORY!

LLS

[UNflagburner]

No, it usually takes several generations for immigrants to fully assimilate. But the 20+ million figure covers the recent 'border jumpers'.

[4Freedom]

"...take some remedial AMERICAN HISTORY!

Why don't you stop trying to rewrite it?

Ronald Reagan would have secured our own borders, first. He wouldn't have risked the lives of American citizens to satisfy the greed of a few businessmen.

What we're seeing here is PROFIT "whatever the cost."

[LibLieSlayer]

I'm not for Amnesty, and I want the borders secure. Stop trying to paint me otherwise.

You have your perceptions as to what Reagan would or would not have done, but I worked for his campaign twice, and consider him one of our Greatest Presidents... and having been invested in his Administration, I have my own opinions.

LLS

[4Freedom]

"I have my own opinions."

And you're welcome to them, but for the record you should know your opinions are wrong. ;^)