Anything that lowers wage bases, they're in favor of. Sovereignty and defensible borders and halting the advance of tropical diseases and things like that are waaaaaay down the list.
Lewis Tappan and other prominent New York businessmen active in the Abolitionist movement of the 1850's actually advocated emancipation of the slaves (uncompensated, of course) and "repatriation" of same to Africa (how do you repatriate a fourth-generation immigrant?), and then replacing them with millions of Chinese coolies under indenture contracts. Think that would have worked out well?
I am not supporting illegal immigration. I routinely disagree with the WSJ on the subject. but this time I am agreeing with the idea that illegal immigration is not anywhere near the most important issue facing the country and that attacking Perry for the in-state tuition has little affect on illegal immigration anyway.
The attacks on Perry violate the Reagan 11th Commandment and are helping the leftist agenda by dividing the GOP on irrelevant issues. Perry is not the enemy. He is not even the worst of the GOP candidates. Romney is, yet you and so many others would destroy Perry to help Romney.
“Lewis Tappan and other prominent New York businessmen active in the Abolitionist movement of the 1850’s actually advocated emancipation of the slaves (uncompensated, of course) and “repatriation” of same to Africa (how do you repatriate a fourth-generation immigrant?), and then replacing them with millions of Chinese coolies under indenture contracts. “
Very interesting. I was aware that Lincoln was a big promoter of that ‘Colonization’ effort. He was trying to do it even during the Civil War, and only gave up when the effort proved to be impossible. He tried sending American blacks to Africa, the Caribbean, and Central America. This can be a Fun Fact on the CW threads when the South bashing and Lincoln worship gets out of hand. Fredrick Douglass knew Lincoln, and didn’t have quite the elevated opinion of him that we commonly hear today.
Now, about the Chinese, we were drawing on what amounted to the top end of the Chinese equivalent of their middle class by bringing in Coolies.
No doubt those contracts for indenture wouldn't have lasted long.