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Top GOP donors tell party to legalize illegal immigrants
« on: July 30, 2013, 05:42:09 PM »
Top GOP donors tell party to legalize illegal immigrants
http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/30/top-gop-donors-party-legalize-illegal-immigrants/

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Nearly a hundred top Republican donors and Bush administration officials sent a letter to the House GOP on Tuesday urging lawmakers to pass a bill that legalizes illegal immigrants, arguing that the current system is already allowing them to stay and so it makes sense to register them and bring them into the system.

The donors, led by former Bush administration Cabinet officials Carlos Gutierrez and Spencer Abraham, also said that immigrants are potential Republican voters who can be won over — if the party can be seen as welcoming to immigrants.

“Doing nothing is de facto amnesty. We need to take control of whom we let in our country and we need to make sure everybody plays by the same rules,” the donors said in their letter.

The last time amnesty happened in 1986, it did not help the Republicans. It occurred during the Reagan years.
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Re: Top GOP donors tell party to legalize illegal immigrants
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2013, 06:59:21 PM »
Carlos Gutierrez. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
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Re: Top GOP donors tell party to legalize illegal immigrants
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2013, 07:34:09 PM »
So long, GOP.  Nice knowin' ya.
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Re: Top GOP donors tell party to legalize illegal immigrants
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2013, 08:34:28 AM »
The other 98 were probably people with big money in agribusiness, from packing plants to corporate farming ops.
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