Hot Take: Democrats Invoke Ronald Reagan To Push Illegal Immigration

Seriously

You know Democrats are reaching when they try and invoke Ronald Reagan https://t.co/UlHRzWorCn

— WilliamTeach2 (@WTeach2) July 16, 2019

They’re really giving this a shot to protect illegals

Since this is the last speech that I will give as President, I think it’s fitting to leave one final thought, an observation about a country which I love. It was stated best in a letter I received not long ago. A man wrote me and said:

“You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American.”

Yes, the torch of Lady Liberty symbolizes our freedom and represents our heritage, the compact with our parents, our grandparents, and our ancestors. It is that lady who gives us our great and special place in the world. For it’s the great life force of each generation of new Americans that guarantees that America’s triumph shall continue unsurpassed into the next century and beyond. Other countries may seek to compete with us; but in one vital area, as a beacon of freedom and opportunity that draws the people of the world, no country on earth comes close.

The thing is, The Gipper was talking about legal immigrants

A number of years ago, an American student traveling in Europe took an East German ship across the Baltic Sea. One of the ship’s crew members from East Germany, a man in his sixties, struck up a conversation with the American student. After a while the student asked the man how he had learned such good English. And the man explained that he had once lived in America.

He said that for over a year he had worked as a farmer in Oklahoma and California, that he had planted tomatoes and picked ripe melons. It was, the man said, the happiest time of his life.

Well, the student, who had seen the awful conditions behind the Iron Curtain, blurted out the question, “Well, why did you ever leave?” … “I had to,” he said, “the war ended.” The man had been in America as a German prisoner of war.

Those conditions behind the Iron Curtain are what the Democrats are trying to create. Reagan was very much for legal immigration, and wanted people to be able to come in and out of the country to visit and work. The problem is, Democrats keep giving incentives so that people come illegally as well as come legally and never leave.

(Washington Post) Several influential Hispanic leaders, meanwhile, sounded an unexpected alarm, warning that Democratic candidates are risking moving too far left in their quest to woo Hispanic voters.

“I think there has to be some moderation. I disagree with the candidates’ positions about providing health care to undocumented immigrants, when you have Americans who don’t have health care,” said Domingo Garcia, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), which held its convention here. “I think that was a snap decision by some of those candidates that wasn’t thought through.”

Cecilia Muñoz, a White House aide to President Barack Obama and a former policy advocate at the National Council of La Raza, a Latino advocacy group now known as UnidosUS, said decriminalizing unapproved border crossings would make it harder for Democrats to combat President Trump’s populist appeal.

“It allows him to make a claim that he is already making, which is Democrats are for an open border,” she said. “And it makes it harder to explain why that is not true.” She added that stopping family separations at the border doesn’t require making the crossings civil offenses.

That’s what they want, though. So, they have to attempt to use Reagan to push their extremist agenda.