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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Think carefully about what Newt said. He said,

“Is it inhumane to deport an illegal immigrant who came to the United States 25 years ago,”

Why did he choose 25 years ago and not 20 or 30.

People assume that 25 years was just a number that Newt pulled out of his ass.

It is not.

Think back about about what happened 25 years ago.

That would be 1986.

That was the year Ronald Reagan’s bill gave amnesty to the then current residents in exchange for sealing the border.

The border wasn’t sealed and millions more Mexicans and other poured over the border.

The people who came after 1986 were illegal. But the people who came before 1986 were legalized if they bothered to come forward.

So Newt is talking about a law that is already on the books.


11 posted on 11/23/2011 6:14:03 AM PST by ckilmer (Phi)
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To: ckilmer
So Newt is talking about a law that is already on the books.

I guess I'm not seeing your point on this and on several other threads on the topic. Is it that illegals here for 25 or more years are already eligible for amnesty?

12 posted on 11/23/2011 6:28:27 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
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