~~November 21, 2014~~
NOT TO FORGET
As the nation’s attention turns back to the fractured debate over immigration, it might be helpful to remember that in 1986, Ronald Reagan signed a sweeping immigration reform bill into law.
It was sold as a crackdown: There would be tighter security at the Mexican border, and employers would face strict penalties for hiring undocumented workers.
But the bill also made any immigrant who’d entered the country before 1982 eligible for amnesty — a word not usually associated with the father of modern conservatism.
“As it appears in … “
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128303672
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We ALL are ONE!!
We all know this to be truth but my challenge is this: “Try to convince any of the hard-headed right wing radicals in America of these Historical facts ….. a virtual impossibility because they all seem to be living in a quagmire of mightily pulped fiction.
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You got that one right!!
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Every Republican President since Dwight Eisenhower has done this, every single last one of them.
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So now … dump on this one, right?? Ugh!
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