Who Said it?

Who said this about a decade ago?

“In 1986, we granted amnesty--and I voted against that provision in law--we granted amnesty to 3.2 million illegal immigrants,” said the upstart. “After being in this country for 10 years, the average amnesty recipient had a sixth-grade education, earned less than $6 an hour, and presently qualifies for the earned-income tax credit.”

If making it easy to be an illegal alien is not enough, how about offering a reward for being an illegal immigrant?” he asked. “No sane country would do that, right? Guess again. If you break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. citizenship and guarantee full access to all public and social services this society provides.”

“Under our immigration laws, cheaters tend to prosper.”

The Immigration Stabilization Act of 1993, among other things prohibited violators of immigration laws from filing for immigrant status. While introducing his legislation on the Senate floor, this man said it would

“rid this country of the burden of people who are known criminals who prey on the American public and become a drain on our resources.”

He then went on to promise

“an all-out crackdown against the practice of smuggling illegal aliens into the United States for profit. Our lax enforcement of immigration and asylum laws has created what can be termed as modern day slave trade.”

But now has this to say in support of Mclame and the Cape Cod Orca(props to the great one):

“Of course most of these eleven million pose no threat,”

“One crucial element of this strategy is to provide incentives for the undocumented immigrants already in the country to step out of the shadows,”

“Half a million people come across every year,” He said last week. “The fact is, our economy depends on them and absorbs them. Some sectors of the economy would literally shut down without them.”

Well if you guessed Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, You are correct. In fact, The Immigration Stabilization Act of 1993 was Reid's bill!

Hypocrite? Demagogue? Scumbag?