Posted on 09/13/2015 3:49:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Days before a Republican presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Library, an immigration advocacy group invoked the former president to attack the tough immigration rhetoric of certain candidates, including front-runner Donald Trump.
A television ad launched on Sunday by the National Immigration Forum Action Fund contrasts Reagan's call for the United States to welcome all people with the stances of Trump, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who have proposed an end to birthright citizenship and urged other crackdowns.
The ad highlights Trump's demand for a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border and comments that Mexican immigrants were "bringing crime" and are "rapists."
It shows a clip from Reagan's 1989 farewell address from the White House in which he references the journey to the United States of John Winthrop, an English Puritan who imagined America as a "city upon a hill."(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
I wish someone would simply make the comparison that legal immigrants are to illegal immigrants and someone making a withdrawal from their bank accounts is to a bank robber.
Hey, I know what. Since someone can’t be “illegal,” and since we don’t want to hurt their feelings, we just need to rename bank robbery to making an “undocumented withdrawal.”
Mark
I did not know that. 10 million received citizenship? Wow!
So this time around amnesty could make citizens of 30 million or more?
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