[deport]

Don't confuse them now. President Reagan went on to continue his belief that borders should be open... note the following:

Some may call is mysticism if they will, but I cannot help but feel that there was some divine plan that placed this continent here between the two great oceans to be found by people from any corner of the earth -- people who had an extra ounce of desire for freedom and some extra courage to rise up and lead their families, their relatives, their friends, their nations and come here to eventually make this country.

The truth of the matter is, if we take this crowd and if we could go through and ask the heritage, the background of every family represented here, we would probably come up with the names of every country on earth, every corner of the world, and every race. Here, is the one spot on earth where we have the brotherhood of man. And maybe as we continue with this proudly, this brotherhood of man made up from people representative of every corner of the earth, maybe one day boundaries all over the earth will disappear as people cross boundaries and find out that, yes, there is a brotherhood of man in every corner.

Thank you all and God Bless you all.

[bold my emphasis]

[Spiff]

I won't be the first, but I'll say it anyway.

Ronald Reagan, like President Bush, was right on many thing and wrong on others. Ronald Reagan was flat out wrong about amnesty, softened borders, and union with Mexico and Canada. President Bush is right about the war on terror, among other things, but flat out wrong about amnesty, open borders, and union with Mexico and Canada.

The 1986 amnesty was a disaster and it lead to the terrible immigration problem we have today in that we have something like 20 million invaders in our country that our leaders say that we can't do anything about except to reward them and call them Americans. We need to learn from our mistakes. We don't want to repeat that same mistake or worsen it.

[Peach]

LOL.

No, we wouldn't want to confuse them. Half of them aren't conservatives at all but disruptors sent here to sow dissent among Republicans on the forum. The others are just garden variety jerks. LOL

[LachlanMinnesota]

Reagan was good at setting out the ideal situation, but he was also prectical about when things would not work. We all want to live in heaven in which no one is sick or injured or hungary, but until there is a way to do that without destroying other good things, it won't work to simply open the borders to let them all in to run rough shod over everything. Even Reagan recognized that.

He never said we would give up our national soveriegnty to do it.