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That is a very fair point, Reagan is 100% culpable as he gave amnesty to millions, ensuring that many more millions would file across the border.
But I think LBJ’s Immigration Act of 1965 actually started the problem. Ted Kennedy on the floor of the Senate assuring all Americans that the USA will not fundamentally change. He straight up lied to us all as chain migration absolutely fundamentally changed, and will eventually destroy, America. But what do you expect from a guy who murdered a woman and then lied about it?
So yes, Reagan inherited the immigration problem when he arrived in DC in 1980, and he poured gasoline on a raging fire. By signing those horrific amnesty bills.
It has nothing to do about racism and has everything to do with diluting all of our voting power.
This is why Tucker is just about the only guy on tv who tells the truth. He understands that both parties are equally reprehensible. Trump said (falsely) that he was going to deport all the illegal aliens. Tucker called him out for lying about that. Again, Tucker is 100% correct.
That is a very fair point, Reagan is 100% culpable as he gave amnesty to millions, ensuring that many more millions would file across the border.
But I think LBJ’s Immigration Act of 1965 actually started the problem. Ted Kennedy on the floor of the Senate assuring all Americans that the USA will not fundamentally change. He straight up lied to us all as chain migration absolutely fundamentally changed, and will eventually destroy, America. But what do you expect from a guy who murdered a woman and then lied about it?
So yes, Reagan inherited the immigration problem when he arrived in DC in 1980, and he poured gasoline on a raging fire. By signing those horrific amnesty bills.
It has nothing to do about racism and has everything to do with diluting all of our voting power.
This is why Tucker is just about the only guy on tv who tells the truth. He understands that both parties are equally reprehensible. Trump said (falsely) that he was going to deport all the illegal aliens. Tucker called him out for lying about that. Again, Tucker is 100% correct.
He's been under heavy fire for about a week and he's not backing down.
pretty much true, i was a senior in HS when this passed and i thought it was fair and a great deal . Even a few years later it was easy to see it had failed miserably because we never followed thru on the other part of the IRCA. Part 1 was amnesty Part 2 was secure the border so it doesn't happen again. Reagan was President and failed to secure the border as has every President since that time. Which is why even though I was very liberal in the day and supported the IRCA It must now be Secure border first then look at any type of immigration reform. Otherwise its just the old saying "fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me". And folks we have been fooled far more times than once, how stupid are we going to be?
Why are you bouncing back and forth between discussing illegal immigration, which is indeed a legitimate problem for both American workers and the immigrants themselves, and the 1965 Immigration Act, which is really only a problem insofar as it allowed too many people of the wrong color into your "ethno-state" of European-descended mongrels?
It had nothing to do with skin color. The 1965 immigration did indeed allow in too many from incompatible cultures and languages vs mainstream America. It didn't allow for assimilation. That's what happens when you allow too many diverse immigrants into a country in a short period of time. It's balkinizines a country and creates culture clash.
To be fair Reagan did that with the promise of reforms that would stop illegal immigration. They did a bait and switch on him. Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me. NO MORE AMNESTY!
Of course he is. Reagan opened the nation and border to millions of illegals to bust unions and provide cheap labor for America's corporatists. He was also the initiator of the free trade concepts that became NAFTA which put millions more Americans out of work destroying their way of life. Reagan was no friend of the American middle class yet, inexplicably, he is held in reverence by so many those whose livelihoods he destroyed with his anti-worker policies.
I don't recall the U.S. balkanizing 100 years ago when we had Germans, Irish, Italians and Poles all running around... Unless you're suggesting that those were compatible cultures and languages?
No. English only. Assimilate or be left by the wayside. We had plenty of Asians who didn't have a compatible culture.
But over the years assimilation became a bad theory.
Remember the term "melting pot" ? That was assimilation.
That turned into the salad bowl....everyone is different, they can stay different and we all live in harmony.
Yet another Ivory Tower theory that has fallen flat on its face.
That's why our government has to produce 237 copies of a publication in different languages.
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