Dana Rohrabacher Quotes
Let the prisoners in the jails pick the fruit in place of illegal farm worker immigrants.
The issue of immigration was being debated in Congress.
Dana Rohrabacher, U. S. Congressman (Republican, CA), Proposal, March 31, 2006
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This objection to capital punishment is an economic one. The colonies needed labor badly. Petty argued that if a criminal were executed the society would lose 1 laborer whereas if he were made a slave, then 1 laborer will be gained. Note that his assumption, typical of the times, that a rich thief would pay a fine but a poor one be executed.
While Woodhull was an ardent feminist, she had a complete platform dealing with almost all aspects of society. At the time, women were unable to vote, and the support she did get came from men. She was a serious candidate. She was appealing to most of the mens issues of the time.
The Emperor thought neighboring Cambodia was barbaric and backward. See {607690}. Meanwhile, like most civilizations he had problems with a minority of his own populace. He came up with a type of Peace Corps concept, but the volunteers were very different. The program was implemented with mixed results. The term of service was three years.
The illegal alien problem had vexed Republican and Democratic Administrations for over 50 years and is one of the most complicated of all the problems facing the nation. She offered the voters a simple solution.
For every illegal immigrant working in the United States, there is at least one company or individual who is also breaking the law by employing him/her.
At that time the Republicans had adopted a political strategy of not passing any significant legislation so that they could claim the Democratic President Barack Obama could not lead or do anything. They were committed to limiting Obama to one term. The Republicans controlled the House and had enough Senators to filibuster anything that happened in the Senate. During that period, there was hardly any legislation passed—one of the lowest points of Congressional paralysis and partisanship in American history.
Most immigration reformers want to open immigration more widely. Ward wanted immigration restricted to certain ethnicities and limited.
The words “illegal alien” are crude and needlessly harsh. There are people who are in American illegally, but the people are not illegal. There is no such term in United States law as “illegal alien”. See {640788}.
Dana Tyrone Rohrabacher is a former American politician, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 2019. A Republican, he formerly represented California's 48th congressional district for the last three terms of his House tenure.
