Karl Rove Quotes
We cannot get control of our borders until we do something about… a man or woman who is making 50¢ an hour in Mexico and can make 10 bucks an hour and the United States for a job that Americans will not do.
Karl Rove, Presidential Assistant and Campaign Strategist (George W. Bush), Aspen Ideas Festival, The Atlantic, October 2006
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The first non-PRI President in over 70 years. This racist remark caused a furor in America producing demands for an apology which were rebuffed although he stated that he regrets the misinterpretation.
“those lands” referred to large tracts of public land that was unoccupied.
Larado in Texas and Neuvo Larado in Mexico are from a social and economic point of view, a single city. However, precisely because of the easy access and mobility, some Americans wanted a barrier to try and curtail the flow of illegal aliens coming to the United States to work. The nation was split between those who wanted the Mexican labor in the United States and those who opposed it.
The nation was divided over the issue of immigration. Many observed that the vast majority of the immigrants—especially the illegal immigrants performed jobs for which American workers could not be hired. Opponents like the congressman, claimed that if better wages were paid Americans would be doing the jobs, and as long as there were immigrants who would work for low wages, there was little reason for employers to pay more.
JOUAM was a nativist workingmen's organization founded in 1853 to resist the competition for jobs from immigration. See related quote for membership criteria. At its peak it had over 200,000 members. “Mechanics” was the term used for a wide variety of skilled craftsmen from plumbers to bricklayers. JOUAM is the oldest fraternal order in America.
this quotation illustrates that illegal immigration to the United States is not the desired solution on the point of view of all Mexicans. Many see it as a drain of the best and the brightest—those who are most self actualizing. It was good politics for the mayor can campaign on a program of strengthening the local economy so that people would not have to emigrate.
This view is particularly ironic in that Italian immigrants to the U. S. have historically been unfairly associated with organized crime in Italy and America.
Karl Christian Rove is an American Republican political consultant, policy advisor and lobbyist. He was Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff during the George W. Bush administration until his resignation on August 31, 2007. He has also headed the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives.