Quote: Originally Posted by katsteve2012
Quote: Originally Posted by Publius1787
I figured you for a smarter guy who wouldn't engage in the flawed reasoning that since a wrong was committed then subsequent wrongs are excused, which of course, is embodied in your "so what" comment.
That aside, Reagan granted amnesty to illegals with the understanding that the border would be secured. Congress never provided the funding for it and there have been 7 times since then with no secure border. Perhaps it's about time we learned our lesson?
https://www.numbersusa.com/content/l...-congress.html
Proposition 187 was struck down on the basis of the following
1) there were supposedly not enough illegal aliens students in Texas public schools to be a financial burden to Texas, and
2) Congress was contemplating an amnesty for illegal aliens in the U.S. (that occurred in 1986), and illegal alien students who were to be made legal would not be educated. Neither of those conditions existed in 1994.
Truth be told, it is your MO to racialize ALL of your threads with a theme that unanimously begins and ends with "the blacks" being your mantra for all of what is negative in America. Which is precisely why I stopped responding to you some time ago.
My sole reason for stating "so what" to preface my comments to you was for precisely that reason.
Based on the way that the current Obstructionists GOP conducts business with our President today, if the same scenario unfolded with an Obama proposal or initiative not having the desired effect, who would be blamed?
Certainly not the GOP. it would rest squarely on the Presidents shoulders just as the failed amnesty act of 1986 should forever be a part of Reagans legacy.
For that matter, it is probably a safe bet that his immigration reform proposal will never come to fruition because the obstinate obstructionists that he has to work with, who are more concerned with orchestrating the failure of his administration than seeing the country pprosper under his leadership.
So far his administration has been responsible for deporting more illegal immigrants than any other administration, and shuld be a supportive point in his favor for positive immigration reform.
President Obama: Deporter-In-Chief - Forbes
Secondly, What the heck did the State of Texas have to do with an initiative that was voted on in Cailfornia? You really lost me on that one.
California: Proposition 187 Unconstitutional - Migration News | Migration Dialogue
Asclepias was doing a fine job of discussing this thread with you, so direct your answers to him please.
I am out.
*(footnote to Asclepias, I hope you don't mind me deferring to you on this. I do not have the patience or the desire to engage in another word of dialogue with Publius)
You confused the hell out of me. The California proposition 187 was years after Reagan and it never made it to the Supreme Court. The Texas prop 187 did in fact make it to the Supreme Court Plyler v. Doe. As far as the rest of your garbage it did not address a single thing I argued.
Your default is consistently that "your arguments are not addressed, even when they obviously are.
There was nothing to address that you "argued", which was any different than your typical rhetoric.
When I read "A BLACK PRESIDENT wants to ________" that was enough.
The fact that you would imply that the Presidents policy on immigration has to do with him being black is the reasoning of a simpleton, which is why I pointed out Reagan's failed amnesty initiative.