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Reid-speak

Flanders

Council Member
In Reid-speak the word fair is a synonym for moral. In short: When the inability to govern a free people becomes obvious transform everything into a moral issue:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama should move quickly on his executive amnesty because it is the fair thing to do for families that fear deportation.​

I gotta say that Reid could not have made his case with a better president than Ike:

He pointed to previous executive actions on immigration by previous presidents all the way back to former President Dwight Eisenhower

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“I believe that when the President decides to do his executive order he should go big, as big as he can. And there’s precedent for him going back to the Eisenhower administration to do something just like this,” the Nevada Democrat said.

“Executive action is not a substitute for Congressional action,” he added. “I understand that. But he’s doing what he can within his authority and it will be up to Congress to finish this job.”

Reid: Executive Amnesty About 'Fairness'
by Caroline May18 Nov 2014

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/11/18/reid-executive-amnesty-about-fairness/

I can only pray that Congress does finish this job in the same way Ike did it:

During the 1950s, however, this "Good Old Boy" system changed under Eisenhower – if only for about 10 years.

In 1954, Ike appointed retired Gen. Joseph "Jumpin' Joe" Swing, a former West Point classmate and veteran of the 101st Airborne, as the new INS commissioner.

Influential politicians, including Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D) of Texas and Sen. Pat McCarran (D) of Nevada, favored open borders, and were dead set against strong border enforcement, Brownell said. But General Swing's close connections to the president shielded him – and the Border Patrol – from meddling by powerful political and corporate interests.

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Then on June 17, 1954, what was called "Operation Wetback" began. Because political resistance was lower in California and Arizona, the roundup of aliens began there. Some 750 agents swept northward through agricultural areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions a day. By the end of July, over 50,000 aliens were caught in the two states. Another 488,000, fearing arrest, had fled the country.

By mid-July, the crackdown extended northward into Utah, Nevada, and Idaho, and eastward to Texas.

By September, 80,000 had been taken into custody in Texas, and an estimated 500,000 to 700,000 illegals had left the Lone Star State voluntarily.

Unlike today, Mexicans caught in the roundup were not simply released at the border, where they could easily reenter the US. To discourage their return, Swing arranged for buses and trains to take many aliens deep within Mexico before being set free.

Tens of thousands more were put aboard two hired ships, the Emancipation and the Mercurio. The ships ferried the aliens from Port Isabel, Texas, to Vera Cruz, Mexico, more than 500 miles south.

How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico
By John Dillin July 6, 2006

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html
 
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