Powell: Illegal migrants essential

[trillium13 84]

You would think that Colin Powell would be one of the last people to subscribe to the belief that we Americans are entitled to free labor from others.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

I'm amused by your lack of reading comprehension.

Whats amusing is you using a rino as a reference. You might wanna go to expedia.com and reserve some tickets cuz you aint gonna like whats comin in NOVEMBER!

[Danno 1,228]

Oddly enough he makes the case that we need (A) all these people streaming into the country to keep our economy going

and (B) we need to secure the border.

.. Ahh Which is it?

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

© Modern day slaves that will do as he wishes at the promise of a check and a meal.

[trillium13 84]

© Modern day slaves that will do as he wishes at the promise of a check and a meal.

That's exactly it.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

"They're all over my house, doing things whenever I call for repairs, and I'm sure you've seen them at your house," he said. "We've got to find a way to bring these people out of the darkness and give them some kind of status."

Read more: http://www.azcentral...l#ixzz105lhTzP2

Really? So he checked their papers and let them work anyway? Or did they just look illegal?

Powell is an Obama Republican and an idiot.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Really? So he checked their papers and let them work anyway? Or did they just look illegal?

Powell is an Obama Republican and an idiot.

I think I will sue!

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Since you have no respect for our laws I can understand your reaction. That is why your opinion means very little.

Show me your papers!

[evli1966 88]

And now we have the "I didn't mean it the way you heard me say it" from Colin Powell. Pity, because what he actually said didn't leave much room for misinterpretation. There's no real way "fix his house" really means "work in his neighbourhood" is there?

Colin Powell is a respected, retired soldier. He should retire from politics, too.

He lost respect along time ago and this statement and current actions reafirm this.

[JohnSmith2007 353]

Show me your papers!

Sure, I have no problem with that. Your strawman argument is old and worn out.

[Teacher Mark 53]

He lost respect along time ago and this statement and current actions reafirm this.

How was it that he lost respect?

[Danno 1,228]

How was it that he lost respect?

IN my case, he lost respect by endorsing Obama.

How would someone who claims to be a Republican turn around and Vote for the most liberal of candidates...... and he even had to step over MR. Moderate (John McCain) to do it.

Oh thats right, Obama is Black and Powell is Black. (guess he has his priorities straight)

[Saddle Bronc 124]

IN my case, he lost respect by endorsing Obama.

How would someone who claims to be a Republican turn around and Vote for the most liberal of candidates...... and he even had to step over MR. Moderate (John McCain) to do it.

(in my case, it was prior to his endorsement of Zero)

Oh thats right, Obama is Black and Powell is Black. (guess he has his priorities straight)

That sounds rather analogous to something I saw in 1993 in Calgary (just prior to Canuck election that year), when a Telugu man (who I'll term "Grit Kris" for convenience) wanted to mobilise the desi community to vote Liberal--I told Grit Kris point-blank that I was NOT going to vote for a party whose leader had shown his hatred of Alberta (with 1982 NEP) earlier!

(and yes, that does mean I will not blindly endorse a desi-American candidate)

[one...two...tree 2,762]

It's funny because Reagan said pretty much the same thing and yet I doubt any of you yahoos have "lost respect" for the Old Gipper over it.

What Would Reagan Do on Immigration?

Former Reagan speechwriter Peter Robinson tries to answer that very good question in an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal. It’s a question my conservative Republican friends should ask themselves as the party tries, once again, to turn public opposition to illegal immigration into political success at the polls.

Robinson correctly observes that Reagan would have had nothing to do with the anger and inflamed rhetoric that so often marks the immigration debate today. “Ronald Reagan was no kind of nativist,” he concludes, noting that Reagan was always reaching out to voters beyond the traditional Republican base, including the fast-growing Hispanic population.

It’s worth remembering that Reagan signed the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which opened the door to citizenship for nearly 3 million people who had been living in the country illegally. Robinson is confident Reagan would have supported the kind of comprehensive immigration reform championed by President George W. Bush and approved by the Senate in 2006.

For the record, I made similar observations and included a few of the same Reagan quotes in an op-ed I wrote soon after Reagan’s passing in June 2004

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/what-would-reagan-do-on-immigration/

[Saddle Bronc 124]

It's funny because Reagan said pretty much the same thing and yet I doubt any of you yahoos have "lost respect" for the Old Gipper over it.

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/what-would-reagan-do-on-immigration/

To "lose" respect for someone, I would have had to have it in the first place. I didn't respect Reagan while he was in office (other than as incumbent head of foreign government--which doesn't really cut it) and my suffering the aftereffects of his 1986 scamnesty was no help on that score!