I'll see your Republican Party platform, and raise you Ronald Reagan's own words on immigration... Illegal or otherwise.
Here are quotes from President Reagan on illegal immigration! His own words, in his own way, from his own heart. If the man is his words, these words ARE the man! End of story.
Link to quotes:
http://www.rnha.org/ImmigrationReformNow/Quotes.htm#Reagan
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President Ronald Reagan
“I've said on a number of occasions that I can't help but believe—you can call it mysticism if you will—that God must have placed this land here between the oceans to be found by a certain kind of people and a kind only in one thing: that whatever corner of the world they came from, they had the courage—and the desire for freedom that went with it—to uproot themselves and come to this strange land, beginning back when it was the most underdeveloped land in the world, and come here leaving family and come to a strange language and everything that went with that kind of a move."
“Many who passed through the gates at Ellis Island had little more than what they carried with them, yet they possessed a determination that with hard work and freedom, they would live a better life and their children even more so. They were captured by the American dream. AND BOTH THEY AND THEIR NEW COUNTRY WERE THE BETTER FOR THEIR EFFORTS AND THEIR FAITH, because they not only came here for something but just as THEY CAME FROM EVERY CORNER OF THE WORLD. THEY BROUGHT SOMETHING from every corner of the world TO THIS GREAT MELTING POT. And maybe in so doing, THEY PROVED HOW ARTIFICIAL ARE THE PREJUDICES AND THE HATREDS THAT EXIST IN THE WORLD BECAUSE WE PROVED THAT WE COULD ALL MIX ...”
***Remarks Announcing the Formation of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Commission, May 18, 1982
“...IT MAKES ONE WONDER ABOUT THE ILLEGAL ALIEN FUSS. ARE GREAT NUMBERS OF OUR UNEMPLOYED REALLY VICTIMS OF THE ILLEGAL ALIEN INVASION OR ARE THOSE ILLEGAL TOURISTS ACTUALLY DOING WORK OUR OWN PEOPLE WON’T DO? ONE THING IS CERTAIN IN THIS HUNGRY WORLD; NO REGULATIONS OR LAW SHOULD BE ALLOWED IF IT RESULTS IN CROPS ROTTING IN THE FIELDS FOR LACK OF HARVESTERS.”
***From a Radio Address entitled "Apples," dated November 29, 1977.
"I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept GOD-BLESSED AMERICA WITH TEEMING WITH PEOPLE OF ALL KINDS LIVING IN HARMONY AND PEACE, A CITY WITH FREE PORTS THAT HUMMED WITH COMMERCE AND CREATIVITY, AND IF THERE HAD TO BE CITY WALLS, THE WALLS HAD DOORS AND WINDOWS THAT WERE OPEN TO ANYONE WITH THE WILL AND THE HEART TO GET HERE. THAT’S HOW I SAW IT AND SEE IT STILL,”
***Farewell Address January 11, 1989
"You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman; you can go to live in Germany, you cannot become a German— or a Turk, or a Greek, or whatever. But anyone, from any corner of the world, can come to live in America and become an American."
"You have to realize that we are a people that are made up of every strain, nationality, and race of the world. And the result is that when people in our country think someone is being mistreated or treated unjustly in another country, these are people who still feel that kinship to that country because that is their heritage. In America, whenever you meet someone new and become friends, one of the first things you tell each other is what your bloodline is. For example, when I'm asked, I have to say Irish, English, and Scotch—English and Scotch on my mother's side, Irish on my father's side. But all of them have that."
"Well, when you take on to yourself a wife, you do not stop loving your mother. So, Americans all feel a kind of a kinship to that country that their parents or their grandparents or even some great-grandparents came from; you don't lose that contact."