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“Our nation is a nation of immigrants. More than any other country, our strength comes from our own immigrant heritage and our capacity to welcome those from other lands." -Ronald Reagan
It's ridiculous how far right the USA has moved when it comes to immigration. Reagan was a scumbag overall but was right about this. Frankly it pisses me off that even the Democrats are so far right on this.
Dems, Rebubs as individuals aren't really anything other than drones that follow orders on what to think and what to get angry about. It's a systemic issue where money is injected into the fringes to piss the other side off and force a defensive posture and eventually conflict from fear.
Every idea that categorizes into left/right needs to be challenged at this point.
The left will never prevail
The right will never prevail
We must recognize and respond to what is really happening.
Of course Reagan meant [white] immigrants.
Agreed, and I think maybe we should remove the plaque from the Statue of Liberty as it clearly no longer applies.
Reagan was an idiot about a lot of things. His policies were often at odds with his rhetoric which was quite progressive for its time and place. If you listened to him though, he was not openly hostile to immigration. Neither him nor H.W. where on the scale of today's right.
https://youtu.be/YsmgPp_nlok?si=D5c5Bm5HRG1uw4jC
All Empires are running immigration. Immigrants come to where the money is being spent. This isn't even just American history.