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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
So until you can cough up an *honest* answer about how far you, personally, are willing to go to shelter, feed, clothe, and educate these immigrants (illegal or otherwise), I don't think you deserve an answer to your question, other than liberals certainly aren't doing anything to dissuade these people from insisting on admittance to the U.S.  
-DP[/quote]

So when the US was admitting Italians and Irish people, and the equivalent of today's GOP was demonizing them for political advantage (e.g. Charles Linbergh - Am First!)...

Were your ancestors the immigrants?
Or were your ancestors offering up their homes and paying to feed, shelter and clothe the Irish and Italians?
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Wow, is that ever an apples and oranges "comparison."  My ancestors were neither Italian nor Irish, but that's really beside the point because they were admitted legally - after waiting for years.  [/quote]

This shows that you know quite little about the history of immigration in this country.

Before about 1920, there were few restrictions on immigration.  No one waited for years.  
And the equivalent of today's GOP demonized those poor immigrants (my ancestors included) for political advantage, 
just as the Republican party does today.  
So then we passed a law to exclude non-white people.  
Hey!  Looks a lot like today.

[quote]The [b]Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act[/b], including the National Origins Act, and Asian Exclusion Act (Pub.L. 68–139, 43 Stat. 153, enacted May 26, 1924), was a United States federal law that set quotas on the number of immigrants from certain countries while providing funding and an enforcement mechanism to carry out the longstanding (but hitherto unenforced) ban on other non-white immigrants. The law was primarily aimed at further decreasing immigration of Southern Europe and Jews and Slavs of the Eastern Europe.[1][2][3][4] The law affirmed the longstanding ban on the immigration of other non-white persons, with the exception of black African immigrants (who had long been exempt from the ban). Thus, virtually all Asians were forbidden from immigrating to America under the Act.

According to the U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian the purpose of the act was "[b]to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity[/b]".[5] Congressional opposition was minimal. According to Columbia University historian Mae Ngai, the 1924 Act put an end to a period where the United States essentially had open borders.[6][/quote][/quote]

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