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That's your misinformed opinion. In reality, dems DO want to cut taxes just not on the top 1% of billionaires, they also are probusiness but not at the expense of our environment. Seems like you are unable to be objective.thats different from current dems? Not really. We have just expanded our focus on civil/human rights to include more groups, as society progressed.The sainted Ronald Reagan-
Statement on United States Immigration and Refugee Policy
July 30, 1981
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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. No free and prosperous nation can by itself accommodate all those who seek a better life or flee persecution. We must share this responsibility with other countries.
The bipartisan select commission which reported this spring concluded that the Cuban influx to Florida made the United States sharply aware of the need for more effective immigration policies and the need for legislation to support those policies.
For these reasons, I asked the Attorney General last March to chair a Task Force on Immigration and Refugee Policy. We discussed the matter when President Lopez Portillo visited me last month, and we have carefully considered the views of our Mexican friends. In addition, the Attorney General has consulted with those concerned in Congress and in affected States and localities and with interested members of the public.
The Attorney General is undertaking administrative actions and submitting to Congress, on behalf of the administration, a legislative package, based on eight principles. These principles are designed to preserve our tradition of accepting foreigners to our shores, but to accept them in a controlled and orderly fashion:
• We shall continue America's tradition as a land that welcomes peoples from other countries. We shall also, with other countries, continue to share in the responsibility of welcoming and resettling those who flee oppression.
• At the same time, we must ensure adequate legal authority to establish control over immigration: to enable us, when sudden influxes of foreigners occur, to decide to whom we grant the status of refugee or asylee; to improve our border control; to expedite (consistent with fair procedures and our Constitution) return of those coming here illegally; to strengthen enforcement of our fair labor standards and laws; and to penalize those who would knowingly encourage violation of our laws. The steps we take to further these objectives, however, must also be consistent with our values of individual privacy and freedom.
• We have a special relationship with our closest neighbors, Canada and Mexico. Our immigration policy should reflect this relationship.
• We must also recognize that both the United States and Mexico have historically benefited from Mexicans obtaining employment in the United States. A number of our States have special labor needs, and we should take these into account.
• Illegal immigrants in considerable numbers have become productive members of our society and are a basic part of our work force. Those who have established equities in the United States should be recognized and accorded legal status. At the same time, in so doing, we must not encourage illegal immigration.
• We shall strive to distribute fairly, among the various localities of this country, the impacts of our national immigration and refugee policy, and we shall improve the capability of those agencies of the Federal Government which deal with these matters.
• We shall seek new ways to integrate refugees into our society without nurturing their dependence on welfare.
• Finally, we recognize that immigration and refugee problems require international solutions. We will seek greater international cooperation in the resettlement of refugees and, in the Caribbean Basin, international cooperation to assist accelerated economic development to reduce motivations for illegal immigration.
Immigration and refugee policy is an important part of our past and fundamental to our national interest. With the help of the Congress and the American people, we will work towards a new and realistic immigration policy, a policy that will be fair to our own citizens while it opens the door of opportunity for those who seek a new life in America.
What has taken over the republican party?
So are Democrats, what happened to the Democratic Party of John F. Kennedy?
The Far Left hijacked it.
John F. Kennedy was a conservative Democrat, who was a tax cutter, supported business and was anti-Communist, JFK was the last decent Democrat who sat in the White House.
It's 100% different from the current Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party now is not for cutting taxes, is not pro-business and cannot be anti-Communist considering so many of them are Far Left Moonbats. They don't care about American Blue Collar workers, which is why they lost their votes to Trump when they overwhelmingly voted for him in the 30-40 year old previously solid Democratic states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
All the Democratic Party stands for now is supporting Illegal Immigrants, supporting Sanctuary Cities and supporting those groups you have expanded to ie. LGBTQ for example.
Your whole base is Illegals, LGBTQ, Hispanics (except Cubans) and blacks (but more and more blacks are abandoning the Democratic Plantation)
Were one TRULY objective they'd acknowledge that there really aren't two parties, just two sides of the same coin.