I believe you misread my post. There was no talk about amnesty. Merely following the Law, as it exists, and getting the gov’t out of the areas it has no Constitutional basis for being within. You are correct though, in that we should be more selective and thoughtful for whom we allow to stay; too many these days do not care to immigrate like my own great-grandparents (I’m only 3rd gen myself).
Interesting though. It’s usually at least ONE of the (L) positions, taken to the fringe, that ‘everyone’ uses to write off the Libertarians; then whine and complain when the GOPe bends them over, w/out a lube up, and/or reach-around. Odd, no?!
There is no (L) group in Congress pushing for MORE/legal immigrations. There is the GOP, though, that is willing, AGAIN, to grant amnesty to 20+MILLION ILLEGAL aliens in this Country right now.
Please stop bashing a group whom has almost NO power in Congress. Your own party hasn’t fought for the Constitution, nor followed the same, until the (well backed by We the People) bill to not pay Congress; then they all found Jesus and rose Holy Hell (excuse the phrases).
My point was Legal Immigration over the last 30 years, which is close to 20 million new citizens, plus another 10 million Green Cards, plus several million more “permanent” work visas.
I've been one of top immigration posters at Free Republic for almost 10 years.
In 2006-2007, during the Bush Amnesty, I got so disgusted with the Cato Institute I stopped reading it (and the WSJ editorial page, which I had read since the 1960’s).
If the mainstream “L” position on immigration has been modified, I apologize for not knowing that.
Your criticism of the GOP is spot on.
Uneasy alliances and political compromise is the price we pay for having any political power at all.
If you spend much time at Free Republic you will notice that Conservatives have never been more demoralized and fatalistic.
After the Gingrich implosion in 1996, after the Bush second term betrayal on immigration and Harriet Miers, after the McCain and Romney nominations, after relentless attacks from the likes of Chris Christie and Joe Scarborough, after the relentless incompetence of Boehner and McConnell, after 40 years of having no national strategy against the relentless attacks by the Hard Left MSM, many of the Conservatives here at Free Republic are at the point of walking away from the GOP, and, essentially, walking away from politics all together.