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Politics

What the GOP Debate About Immigration Looked Like in 1980

Matt Welch | 9.8.2011 11:12 AM

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Some more Reagan nostalgia for you:

Link via the Twitter feed of Jesse Walker, who notes: "The past is a different planet."

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