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<blockquote data-quote="GTNavyNuke" data-source="post: 292608" data-attributes="member: 322"><p>Good stuff here from all. I've been looking at history trying to put all of this into context. It seems that the pendulum swings back and forth between immigration and deportation in the US.</p><p></p><p>One thing I didn't know/remember is that during the Great Depression, the US (Hoover and FDR) mass deported 500,000 to 2,000,000 people to Mexico. Many were US citizens. <span style="font-size: 9px"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>"While I don’t think (please God) we are anywhere close to implementing a policy as draconian as Herbert Hoover’s was in the late 1920s, it would behoove us to remember his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation" target="_blank">Mexican Repatriation</a>, by which somewhere between 500,000 and 2 million American residents of Mexican ancestry were forcibly returned to Mexico. Many of these deportees were actually US citizens. And this was done without due process. I kid you not. By the way, this program was continued by Franklin D. Roosevelt for another four years. This program is a dark blot on American history, one that I think was even worse than the Japanese internment camps of World War II. <strong>The expulsion was carried out in the name of “protecting American jobs” and putting America first; and then it was followed up with policies that were designed to make America productive again,</strong> including the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which was a contributing factor in the Great Depression."</em></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Here's the link for a good article with the above quote and the potential ramifications of the Border Tax. The guy writing it is a lifelong Republican. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><a href="http://www.mauldineconomics.com/frontlinethoughts/tax-reform-the-good-the-bad-and-the-really-ugly-part-three#.WKudKLaJ4Io.email" target="_blank">http://www.mauldineconomics.com/frontlinethoughts/tax-reform-the-good-the-bad-and-the-really-ugly-part-three#.WKudKLaJ4Io.email</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GTNavyNuke, post: 292608, member: 322"] Good stuff here from all. I've been looking at history trying to put all of this into context. It seems that the pendulum swings back and forth between immigration and deportation in the US. One thing I didn't know/remember is that during the Great Depression, the US (Hoover and FDR) mass deported 500,000 to 2,000,000 people to Mexico. Many were US citizens. [SIZE=1] [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation[/URL] [/SIZE] [SIZE=4][I]"While I don’t think (please God) we are anywhere close to implementing a policy as draconian as Herbert Hoover’s was in the late 1920s, it would behoove us to remember his [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation']Mexican Repatriation[/URL], by which somewhere between 500,000 and 2 million American residents of Mexican ancestry were forcibly returned to Mexico. Many of these deportees were actually US citizens. And this was done without due process. I kid you not. By the way, this program was continued by Franklin D. Roosevelt for another four years. This program is a dark blot on American history, one that I think was even worse than the Japanese internment camps of World War II. [B]The expulsion was carried out in the name of “protecting American jobs” and putting America first; and then it was followed up with policies that were designed to make America productive again,[/B] including the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which was a contributing factor in the Great Depression."[/I][/SIZE] [SIZE=1][/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Here's the link for a good article with the above quote and the potential ramifications of the Border Tax. The guy writing it is a lifelong Republican. [/SIZE] [SIZE=1][URL]http://www.mauldineconomics.com/frontlinethoughts/tax-reform-the-good-the-bad-and-the-really-ugly-part-three#.WKudKLaJ4Io.email[/URL] [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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