This is from the scummy Atlanta-Journal Constitution. The only reason we don’t mention them in the same breath as the NYT or WaPo is because they don’t have the subscription numbers.
These are the same turds who set up Richard Jewell for the Olympic Centennial Park bombing in Atlanta. Completely innocent man.
And the posters on here are correct-Reagan was talking about people who want to come to America to be Americans. Legal immigrants. People of ANY color or creed who we welcome through a legal process.
Reagan didn’t have these people in mind, coming up here to sponge off the country’s largesse. These people at this newspaper were the kind who were thrilled to hear Reagan had Alzheimer’s, but relishing trying to use his rhetoric to somehow portray that conservatives have betrayed Reagan’s principles.
Reagan’s “enthusiasm” for immigration back in the late Eighties relates to the illegal immigration taking place today in the same way to Alexander Hamilton’s enthusiasm for Federal Government back in the 1790’s relates to the “Federal Government” we have today.
That is, it DOESN’T relate.
In the 1790’s what passed for a Federal Government is NOTHING like the monstrous, tyrannical Federal Government we have today.
Likewise, Reagan’s vision of Immigration in 1988 is NOTHING like the ILLEGAL Charlie Foxtrot we have today.
You’re right rlmorel.. thanks for sharing.
“Likewise, Reagan’s vision of Immigration in 1988 is NOTHING like the ILLEGAL Charlie Foxtrot we have today. “
Total nonsense. Reagan’s view of how immigration should operate is the same as open borders / no wall RINO Republican.
Because that is what it was.
Here he is in his own words in 1980.
https://youtu.be/YsmgPp_nlok?t=92
BTW, I have a funny story involving Nigut when I interacted with him during a FReep. He was the political reporter for WSB-TV at that time. Let me see if I can find it.
Shoot, can’t find it. I know I’d posted this before.
Here’s the FReep report. Realize, I’m dressed like a devil. Full head mask. In Atlanta, in August.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/962203/posts?page=1
Nigut and a cameraman come towards the FReep group, I recognize him, say “Hi Bill!” from under the mask as he walks up. He blows right past me and gives me a look that says “They don’t pay me enough for this.”
So he approaches Apple Pan Dowdy, asks if we have a spokesperson. She immediately points right back at me! He rolls his eyes, I tear off my mask, and we start talking.
Pretty quickly, he realizes that while I may be soaked in sweat and have just removed a devil mask, I visibly have all my teeth, I’m speaking in complete sentences, and whaddaya know, I’m even giving him pretty good sound bites. I think I even got a look of amazement in there somewhere. I wish I had video of him interviewing me.
Anyway, that’s a 20 year old story of my interaction with Nigut.