chapotraphouse

This is how far we've shifted on immigration:

The Immigration Reform and Control Act was passed in 1986 under the Reagan administration. It legalized most illegal immigrants who had arrived in the country prior to January 1, 1984.

On signing the act into law at a ceremony held beside the newly-refurbished Statue of Liberty, Reagan said, "The legalization provisions in this act will go far to improve the lives of a class of individuals who now must hide in the shadows, without access to many of the benefits of a free and open society. Very soon many of these men and women will be able to step into the sunlight and, ultimately, if they choose, they may become Americans."

The act did not address the status of children of undocumented migrants who were eligible for the amnesty program, and In 1987, Reagan used his executive authority to legalize the status of minor children of parents granted amnesty under the immigration overhaul, announcing a blanket deferral of deportation for children under 18 who were living in a two-parent household with both parents legalizing or with a single parent who was legalizing. That action affected an estimated 100,000 families.

In his last speech as president, Reagan spoke on immigration:

You can live in Germany, Turkey, or Japan, but you can't become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the earth, can come live in America and become an American.
— Ronald Reagan, 1988

Wild to see the shift in rhetoric. This isn't just to the left of Republicans, its even to the left of Democrats.

for some reason i'm just now considering how fucking annoying adolf would have been on twitter had it existed.

Yeah I don't discriminate, jewish nazis go in the hole too.

You dishonor the memory of my ancestors

Fucker talks like a Skyrim character

The italian fascists adopted the roman salute after the 1919 influenza pandemic, describing the handshake as dirty and effeminate

"fun" fact

Many Jewish people believed they would be left alone because of their prestigious or important jobs

If America is for Americans only, does it mean that guy plans on going back to Europe?

Shut the fuck up stephen miller, you don’t speak for all Jews.

Yeah but they aren't coming for the Jews. First they come for the gender queer. He should not speak up, for he is not gender queer.

Guess he hasn't noticed the expiration date on his "Ethnicity: White" card yet.

Pretty sure the words "Jew" and "Jewish" weren't in that original tweet there, Steve.

I mean “nativist” shit is as old as the KKK….or the second branch at least, I dunno how much of a thing it was with the first.

Just wait until you find out who your followers consider ”American”. The answer may surprise you!

Anyone else curious if this tweet stoked the fire of an argument somewhere in right wing politics? Some sort of "see? I told you Zion Don is infiltrated!"

the way he talks always sounds like barely-contained narcissistic rage

So that was obviously a ploy on miller’s part, he said the first thing so that he could say the second thing. But why? To test how far he could push it while still using his ethnicity as a shield?

He was going to dishonor the memory of those ancestors himself, he doesn't need your help!