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Article: America's New Know-Nothings; Four of the Republican nominees once had sensible views on immigration. Apart from McCain, all have now backtracked.(John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and Sam Brownback)
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- Newsweek
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- May 28, 2007
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Byline: Fareed Zakaria
In 1989, Ronald Reagan made his farewell address to the American people and summed up his view of the United States. "I've spoken of the shining city all my political life," he said, "but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. [I]n my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get here." Today, all the Republican Party ...