Shove this Reagan quote up their asses.

[Garion_55]

Trust me they get twisted like a pretzel trying to figure out how to respond.



June 1952 -- From a commencement address at Williams Woods College, one of the oldest surviving speeches of Reagan's

"I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as a promised land. It was set here and the price of admission was very simple: the means of selection was very simple as to how this land should be populated. Any place in the world and any person from those places; any person with the courage, with the desire to tear up their roots, to strive for freedom, to attempt and dare to live in a strange and foreign place, to travel halfway across the world was welcome here."

[dawg]

1. All Republicans know ...

he was only talking about "white" people.

[Dave Starsky]

2. Yep. I don't hear nothin' 'bout no Messicans or Mooslins...

in that quote. Nice try, fake news.

[IronLionZion]

7. Actually back then they wanted immigrants to come to America

both Reagan and HW Bush did. They even set up refugee resettlement programs. This was common for those fleeing communist regimes in Asia or Latin America or provided assistance to US military operations in their home countries.

In 1986, Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which granted amnesty to 2.7 million undocumented immigrants who had arrived in the U.S. before 1982, had a clean record and registered with the Selective Service.

The racism came more recently actually.

Why does everyone always forget that St. Ronald of Reagan granted amnesty?

[dawg]

10. Yes, but ...

that was just to make the "Commies" look bad.

[treestar]

11. exactly. Good thing to point out to them

as a solution to the problem of "illegality" they are always quoting.

[IronLionZion]

14. Never let them forget that Reagan and Bush encouraged immigration

they enthusiastically wanted people to come to the land of the free and become American citizens.

[treestar]

20. Indeed. Reagan is their big hero.

So ironic he signed into the law biggest amnesty ever!

[3_Limes]

3. And while we're at it, this one from TR:

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

[LS_Editor]

4. They will just say Mexicans, Muslims, etc. don't want to assimilate.

I have many family members with the alt-right bug.

[Stonepounder]

5. I get really tired of the 'don't want to assimilate' meme.

The first generation have trouble assimilating. Think about moving to, oh say Cambodia. Different culture, language, food, and so on. Even though you move there willingly and wante to be there, you also look for other ex-pats. You have your children and then grow up with one foot in each culture. They pass easily between Cambodian outside the home and US inside the home. They grow up easily speaking two language. Your grandchildren grow up knowing no other culture than Cambodian.

This is the way that nearly all immigrants 'assimilate'. My grandparents were from Germany. They spoke heavily accented English and spoke German to each other. My parents used German when they wanted to talk without us kids knowing what they were talking about. Neither my siblings nor myself speak a word of German.

[MyOwnPeace]

6. Well stated, Stone!

[LiberalFighter]

9. Same with my great-grandparents.

Their parents were from Germany. My grandparents knew both German and English but my parents and their siblings not so much.

[dembotoz]

13. with that in mind....deport anyone who celebrates st patricks day

[IronLionZion]

15. Former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels' grandparents are Syrian immigrants

Trump should tell him he needs to assimilate

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Raygun was thrown under the bus not long after Obama was elected

and it only got worse by the end of Obama's final term. I.e., they had jettisoned so much of Raygun's original "policies" by attributing them to "Democrats", that they have no idea who he is or what he did.

[jeanmarc]

12. I'm not sure the Reagan as a moderate guy is correct

In this climate, to be able to run, he would run further right and be a complete asshole.

He had some principles that he believed in, but I'm almost certain Reagan would be about as big an asshole as Ted Cruz.

[progressoid]

16. They have a comeback.

They agree as long as you come here "legally".

[Garion_55]

17. remind them that the last president to grant amnesty

to millions of illegals, was reagan

[TeamPooka]

18. You mean amnesty to undocumented immigrants. Not the term you used that is offensive to many.

[IronLionZion]

19. Ronald Reagan - "I Believe in Amnesty for Illegal Aliens"