From your link:
“...In language that will likely be recalled in the upcoming debate over immigration, Armey minced no words in condemning Republicans over their stance.
“Who in the Republican Party was the genius who said now that we have identified the fastest-growing demographic in America, let’s go out and alienate them? This is a nation of immigrants. ... There is room in America,” he said.
“When I was Republican leader, I saw to it that Tom Tancredo could not get on a stage because I saw how destructive he was,” Armey said of the anti-immigration former congressman. “Republicans have to get off this goofiness. Ronald Reagan said, ‘Tear down this wall.’ Tom Tancredo said ‘Build that wall.’ Who’s right? America is not a nation that builds walls. America is a nation that opens doors, and we should be that.”
Armey also predicted this latest conservative wave would not ebb like others he had lived through, starting with Barry “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice” Goldwater’s run for president in 1964 through Ronald “morning in America” Reagan’s victory in 1980, Ross Perot’s failed third-party presidential bid in 1992 and the Republican takeover of Congress two years later on the strength of the Contract with America Armey helped author. He said the new movement, which is writing its own Contract From America, is the first powered by social networking and the Internet....”
“A nation without borders is not a nation.”
- Ronald Wilson Reagan
Armey is a blowhard jackwagon, and deliberately misconstruing Reagan’s position on immigration.
Let me spray some 'equal opportunity' ordinance around on this one.
This is a BS statement from DA.
You tear down a wall that keeps you from getting out (unless you've been incarcerated for a crime). So Reagan had it right.
You build a wall to keep ILLEGAL trespassers OUT if you CANT control your borders. So. it was PAT BUCHANNAN had it right all along, going all the way back to the 1992 primary against BUSH-I.
As for Tancredo, he's nothing more but a populist bigot. He lumps all hispanics in one cesspool. I lost all respect for him when he said "Miami's a filthy, dirty, disgusting, corrupt banana republic."
Well no, there is not room in America, unless you think the whole country looks like the Great Fried Empty of West Texas. Maybe the UN could set up shop in Fort Stockton, eh Dick?