Posted on: April 26, 2005
Grover Norquist, President of Washington-based Americans for Tax Reform, is thought of as a conservative, but is off the reservation when it comes to illegal immigration. He thinks that the “anger” of those Republicans who are calling for immigration reform is hurting the Party.
Daily Bulletin.com quotes him as saying, "People are mad at their taxes; people are mad at crowded schools; they're mad at a whole bunch of things. It's not reasonable to blame illegal immigration, but they do."
Norquists equates current criticism of illegals with “what the Republican Party did with the Catholic vote 100 years ago, and it was very costly.”
So far as we can remember, Catholics entered the country, not through holes in the barbed-wire at our unguarded border, but legally.
The difference is large. Furthermore, the problems of taxes, crowded schools, and “a whole bunch of things” certainly stem in no small part from the illegal immigrants flooding the country.
