{"id":350494,"date":"2018-03-02T15:45:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T14:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/republicans-are-wrong-on-immigration\/"},"modified":"2018-03-02T15:45:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T14:45:08","slug":"republicans-are-wrong-on-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/republicans-are-wrong-on-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Are Wrong on Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-674721\">\n<div class=\"clearfix post-info\">\n<p class=\"authors\"> By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/author\/paul-gottfried\/?ptype=article\" title=\"Posts by Paul Gottfried\" rel=\"author\">Paul Gottfried<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"attribution\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\">American Thinker<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"date\">March 2, 2018<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"social-sharing\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"custom-buttons custom-buttons-merged\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"a2a_button_email\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/email?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2F2018%2F03%2Fpaul-gottfried%2Ftrump-and-old-time-democrats%2F&amp;type=page&amp;linkname=Trump+and+Old-Time+Democrats&amp;linknote=\" title=\"Email\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><!--img src=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/\/wp-content\/themes\/lrc\/images\/icons\/email.png\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Email\"--><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"print-page\"><!--img src=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/\/wp-content\/themes\/lrc\/images\/icons\/print.png\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Print\"--><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_16 addtoany_list\" data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/03\/paul-gottfried\/trump-and-old-time-democrats\/\" data-a2a-title=\"Republicans Are Wrong on Immigration\"><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2F2018%2F03%2Fpaul-gottfried%2Ftrump-and-old-time-democrats%2F&amp;linkname=Republicans%20Are%20Wrong%20on%20Immigration\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\/><a class=\"a2a_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2F2018%2F03%2Fpaul-gottfried%2Ftrump-and-old-time-democrats%2F&amp;linkname=Republicans%20Are%20Wrong%20on%20Immigration\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\/><a class=\"a2a_button_twitter_tweet addtoany_special_service\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/03\/paul-gottfried\/trump-and-old-time-democrats\/\" data-text=\"Republicans Are Wrong on Immigration\"\/><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook_like addtoany_special_service\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/03\/paul-gottfried\/trump-and-old-time-democrats\/\"\/><a class=\"a2a_button_google_plusone addtoany_special_service\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/03\/paul-gottfried\/trump-and-old-time-democrats\/\"\/><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save addtoany_share\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/buttons\/share_save_120_16.png\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blog-content clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday afternoon, I listened to a gathering of\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0editors and writers on Fox News discussing the congressional deadlock on immigration.\u00a0\u00a0Paul Gigot, Jason Riley, and Karl Rove were all disturbed that the president and congressional Republicans who followed his lead were stalling a compromise over DACA and other related immigration issues.\u00a0\u00a0These intransigents should have accepted something like the Graham-Durbin proposal that would have amnestied DACA recipients and their families while continuing chain migration but also making some provision for increased border security.<\/p>\n<p>As I listened to these judgments, I thought, \u201cSpoken like true Republicans.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0These remarks explain why Trump rallied the working-class base that had long eluded Republican politicians.\u00a0\u00a0Trump and his advisers noticed what had been clear for some time: for many decades, the Democrats generally took the harder line on immigration, even if neither national party offered steady resistance. Although both parties voted for the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965\">higher percentage<\/a>\u00a0of Republicans than Democrats voted for that legislation in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The most vocal opposition to this reform came from Southern Democrats, who feared that the immigration act would change the ethnic profile of the country by removing national quotas.\u00a0\u00a0Republicans had no interest in the concern raised in 1965 by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/10\/immigration-act-1965\/408409\/\">North Carolina Democratic senator Sam Ervin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The people of Ethiopia have the same right to come to the United States under this bill as the people from England, the people of France, the people&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/03\/paul-gottfried\/trump-and-old-time-democrats\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Gottfried American Thinker March 2, 2018 &#13; &#13; &#13; Last Saturday afternoon, I listened to a gathering of\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0editors and writers on Fox News discussing the congressional deadlock on immigration.\u00a0\u00a0Paul Gigot, Jason Riley, and Karl Rove were all disturbed that the president and congressional Republicans who followed his lead were stalling a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-350494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}