1. None of Trump's policies or agenda is reasonable called that. If the "Far right" wants that, they don't support him.2. Thanks for not tying the 11 million illegal lie on me. 2b. 20 million illegals says we do have an effectively open border and we need to take major steps to reverse this. YOu libs paint every single attempt to do anything about this as "racist and xenophobic". Thus you do support open borders and do NOT believe this nation has a right to limit who we let in.
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I already said I do not support open borders. I gave you my honest appraisal of what I consider the "far right" to be. Now trust me, I have no love for the far left either but that's not the topic here. As a sovereign nation, we have a right to control the ingress and egress of people to this country. However, over the last 60 years, our southern borders used to be so porous, millions more than the census department wants to admit, entered and stayed. They've been quoting that phony 12 million number for the last 8 years.
Finally Reagan saw it as a major problem but didn't want to make it public. He signed a law which in part, required employers to attest to their employees' immigration status and made it illegal to hire or recruit illegal immigrants knowingly. He also was responsible for the Reagan Amnesty but that was too much, too little, too late. George H. W. Bush really didn't push the issue and both Reagan and HW, argued against a wall (
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Bill Clinton made the illegal Mexican immigration worse by making it personal....Bill Clinton's record on immigration policies (
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(Source) This is anecdotal but I was a part-time journalism student. Sometimes, we'd go to the student union where they served beer, and watch Fox news, which we all hated but liked to rip apart. This goes back about ten years, but there was a newscaster there, Lou Dobbs I think, that kept bring up the Mexican immigration problem. I laughed but more because everything he was saying, I already knew. It just never occurred to me that this was turning into a major issue.
I believe in justice, treating people with respect, and like it or not, the law is the law. I'm very pragmatic that way. trump, to his credit, tapped into a groundswell a supporters who want to control the borders of this country. I have no problem with that. However, when I see gross disrespect, enmity or especially hatred, I draw the line.
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