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Bloomberg’s Ramesh Ponnuru: Immigration Is the New Litmus Test for GOP
Breitbart.com ^ | 9 Jan 2016 | Julia Hahn

Posted on 01/09/2016 6:34:17 PM PST by Rockitz

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To: Rockitz

close and seal all US borders. 0 new immigration for 20 years


21 posted on 01/09/2016 7:05:13 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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“Just as conservative candidates for President cannot be selected if they support abortion, Obamacare or gun control, Ponnuru explains that the new litmus test of conservatism is immigration. Conservatives are now starting to see a candidate’s position on immigration as an index of his conservatism in general, Ponnuru writes.”

Looks like it took the GOPe rough AN ENTIRE DECADE to realize that Immigration is “not just another issue”, but even MORE IMPORTANT to most of us than even gun control...since if you flood the country with Democrats, the GOP position on gun control (or any other issue) simply will not matter (aka, California).

It finally boiled over this campaign. The GOPe can be with us on 100 other issues, but if they’re not with us on immigration, WE ARE THROUGH WITH THEM. They either need to accept what we want and come along, or we will PUSH THEM OUT OF THE WAY.

That simple.


22 posted on 01/09/2016 7:11:04 PM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: a fool in paradise

disable thing = desirable thing


23 posted on 01/09/2016 7:13:00 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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AMEN!


24 posted on 01/09/2016 7:24:35 PM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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You have laws or you don't. You have borders or you don't. You have a country or you don't.

Very well said.

25 posted on 01/09/2016 8:18:49 PM PST by Always A Marine
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Conservatives are very concerned about immigration for obvious reasons. For example, there will be nothing American left to conserve if we let it become Mexico-North. Like most conservatives, I’m not opposed to immigration under our terms. As long as immigrants want to truly assimilate and fill a particular need—no problem, but that’s not what’s happening. They aren’t assimilating, and they’re taking jobs from Americans. That’s not right and has to stop!


26 posted on 01/09/2016 9:03:25 PM PST by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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Sorry to disappoint but 1st and 2nd generations have taken every advantage of government programs given to them on the basis of their immigration status.

They are now fully enamored with the Santa Clause party, offering them more and more of "our stuff!"

27 posted on 01/09/2016 9:34:37 PM PST by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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I guess the real question about immigration is - Why do all the other counties in the world suck? Why makes all the other countries so horrible that their people want to leave?


28 posted on 01/10/2016 2:37:29 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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29 posted on 01/10/2016 6:51:56 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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As well it should be. Republican Party/conservatism/America won’t survive unless there’s functional control over immigration.


30 posted on 01/10/2016 12:09:11 PM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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