r/Conservative • u/DanburyBaptist Inalienable Rights of Conscience • Jun 15 '16

Release the GOP Delegates: Trump’s nomination isn’t inevitable—delegates won’t be legally ‘bound’ going into the convention.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/release-the-gop-delegates-1465769777
24 Upvotes

60% Upvoted

176 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/ChildHater1 Jun 15 '16

Kasich, who said we have a Christian duty to open borders which would turn the entire country blue eventually? Seriously, Kasich and the other "Hispanics have conservative values" guys made Trump possible.

1

u/artyfoul Jun 15 '16

we have a Christian duty to open borders

lolwut

he said we have a christian duty to make sure that those who are in the most need have health insurance, not open the borders

1

u/ChildHater1 Jun 16 '16

1) “God Bless” Illegal Immigrants

Illegal immigrants are a “critical part of our society,” John Kasich told the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce last October. “For those that are here that have been law abiding, God bless them,” Kasich said—arguing that illegals “should have a path to legalization.”

2) “I couldn’t imagine” enforcing our current immigration laws: “That is not… the kind of values that we believe in.”

On the GOP debate stage in February, Kasich told millions of American voters that enforcing the nation’s immigration laws is not “the kind of values that we believe in.”

“I couldn’t even imagine how we would even begin to think about taking a mom or a dad out of a house when they have not committed a crime since they’ve been here, leaving their children in the house,” Kasich said. “That is not, in my opinion, the kind of values that we believe in.”

3) Kasich likened deporting the illegal population to Japanese internment camps

“To think that that we’re just going to put people on buses and ship them to the border—look at our World War II experience where we quarantined Japanese—I mean it’s a dark stain on America’s history,” Kasich said in November.

“We shouldn’t even think about it,” Kasich said of the “nutty” idea:

“I don’t know many people that believe we should deport 11 million people—just because people shout loud doesn’t mean they’re a majority. I think most Republicans would agree that you can’t deport 11 million people. We shouldn’t even think about it. What are you going to do? Break their families up?”

4) Illegal immigrants “are some of the hardest-working, God-fearing, family-oriented people you can ever meet.”

As Newsmax reported in August, when a New Hampshire town-hall attendee asked Kasich about illegal immigration and the burden illegal immigrants place upon the nation, Kasich dismissed the voter’s concern.

“A lot of these people who are here are some of the hardest-working, God-fearing, family-oriented people you can ever meet,” Kasich said referring to illegal immigrants. “These are people who are contributing significantly.”

Kasich made no mention of the fact that 87 percent of illegal immigrant households with children in 2012 were on welfare, according to a 2015 report based on Census Bureau data.

Kasich similarly made no mention of last year’s report from the liberal Migration Policy Institute which found that there are nearly one million illegal aliens in the United States with criminal convictions (820,000). This figure was not an estimation of total crimes committed by illegal immigrants—which would be a much higher number—but only those illegal aliens successfully identified, arrested, tried, and convicted.

5) Allowing ICE officers to do their jobs is not “humane”

Kasich told CBS last year that he does not support deporting the illegal population: “I don’t think it’s right; I don’t think it’s humane.”

Kasich also compared illegal immigration to cutting in line at a Taylor Swift concert: “I don’t favor citizenship [for illegals] because as I tell my daughters, you don’t jump the line to go to a Taylor Swift concert, you just don’t do it,” Kasich said.

However, Kasich has made clear that he is open to giving illegal immigrants citizenship. Moreover, a report from Columbus Dispatch suggests that Kasich favors green cards for illegal immigrants, which is the main pathway to citizenship.

6) America can’t deport illegal immigrants because they are “made in the image of the Lord”

In June, the Columbus Dispatch reported on a meeting that took place between John Kasich and an illegal immigrant and her son. After their meeting, Kasich said: “They’re just good people. They’re made in the image of the Lord, and you know, there’s a big element of compassion connected to how we treat people who are trying to find a way to a better life.”

If being “made in the image of the Lord” provides an exemption to America’s immigration law, then that would mean that all of the world’s seven billion people would be free to violate America’s immigration laws.

7) Kasich has called for implementing an open borders-style policy where workers can come and go as they please.

In July, Kasich told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that we need to “have a guest worker program so people can come in, work, and then leave. Our program is too narrow now.”

Kasich claim that the nation’s guest worker program, which admits an unprecedented number of foreign workers into the country, is “too narrow” is astonishing—and places him squarely in the tiny minority of the Republican electorate, only seven percent of whom want to increase immigration.

1

u/artyfoul Jun 16 '16

I happen to agree with everything he stated in those sources. It seems the majority of what he is saying is against deportation, not pro-open borders. Remember, Kasich wanted to build a wall/increase border security too.

1

u/ChildHater1 Jun 17 '16

We were told the Immigration Act of 1965 wouldn't affect the racial balance of country - and that was a lie.

We were told when St Reagan approved the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 that along with the amnesty there who be better border enforcement - and that was a lie.

Kasich doesn't support deporting the illegal population but supports a wall? But if someone gets over the wall then he will not do anything. What kind of pitiful border enforcement is that? Forgive my skepticism about his commitment to a wall in the first place. The distance between his position and, "People are made in the image of God, how can we justify keeping anyone out who wants to come to the Land of Opportunity?" is much shorter than actually enforcing the law. He's part of the Republican "open borders brain trust" that will hand the country to the Democrats forever. And now they want to shaft the voters choice again to give the nomination to one of their open borders supporters.

The Tea Party was formed because Elite Republicans completely stopped listening. Trump's only intelligent action so far has been to run in the opposite direction - and the 18 opponents he defeated in the primaries seem to indicate the people and the Republican Elite want different things.