Now true conservatives can begin to see the real reach of liberal Republicans. I remember when my mother went through the citizenship naturalization process how the process had point of origin limitations. The symbolic meaning of the Statue of Liberty was very prominent. My mother was admonished that she was not to be a burden on the Government, this after she had sweated out years of turmoil and uncertain employment during the rising power of unions and the great depression with it’s catastrophic unemployment. The same specific warning was given to my wife when she became a USA citizen from Sweden. There were quotas to allot immigration from other nations because in the those days of my mother with very high unemployment immigration was to be severely limited and these still held at the time my wife was naturalized as a citizen. . The mobilization of industry for WWII showed that the USA already had a cache of workers and we didn’t need any foreign injections. I know and realize that the war was an extraordinary demand on human resources and the gist is that we need to look at what the Nation has on hold and make adjustments to that instead of increasing and perpetuating an economy based on political gamesmanship let alone the demonstrated security risks.
Before there was George W. Bush’s compassionate conservatism, there was Jack Kemp and his big government conservatism. Kemp preached to us about how he showered with black football teammates and understand better than the racist Republican party that poor people should have houses whether they could afford it not.