Thursday, August 27, 2015

Jeb, O’Reilly Unaware of Ike on Immigration?

How can a serious presidential candidate and a major cable television host be so repeatedly ignorant of such a significant moment in American history? --I don’t know. But I do know that both Jeb Bush and Bill O’Reilly are either attacking Donald Trump (Bush) or challenging him on air (O’Reilly) seemingly clueless of a seminal moment in American immigration history. As discussed in this space last week, that moment in history began on June 17, 1954, when, at the personal direction of President Dwight D. Eisenhower – the fabled American hero of the D-Day invasion – illegal immigrants in America were rounded up and deported back to Mexico. Exactly as Donald Trump is proposing to do today.

Read more at Conservative Review

(Hat tip: KimR)

0 comments:

Post a Comment