amnesty

Quick history quiz.  Who said the following: “This amnesty will give citizenship to only 1.1 to 1.3 million illegal aliens.  We will secure the borders henceforth.  We will never again bring forward another amnesty bill like this.”?  That was Ted Kennedy on the floor of the US Senate in 1986, pushing for legislation that successfully granted amnesty to several million illegal aliens that year.

There you have a good example of why the word “amnesty” is such a hot-button with politicians and the American public.  Because the only thing that bill did successfully was grant amnesty.

Ted Kennedy’s promises of “securing the border” notwithstanding, we’ve since had another twelve to twenty million illegals sneak into our country.  So here comes the amnesty crowd once again, claiming that without it our country will suffer plagues of uncut grass and unpicked cabbage.