LindaK wrote:
Biden won’t shut down our borders. Not only has he been giving them ‘free incentives to violate our borderS’ but has plans to give them voting rights and amnesty, just as Obama granted his illegals amnesty during his administration.
Truly confusing to remember which past boss of the USA must be remembered for which act..
for instance... Was it the truth, or just one more of the lie about it and do it anyway stratagy that was used to steal the SS trust fund and run guns to south America.. more and more of the lies by the right wing come home to roost..
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A Reagan Legacy: Amnesty For Illegal Immigrants
JULY 4, 20102:12 PM ET
HEARD ON ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
As the nation's attention turns back to the fractured debate over immigration, it might be helpful to remember that in 1986, Ronald Reagan signed a sweeping immigration reform bill into law. It was sold as a crackdown: There would be tighter security at the Mexican border, and employers would face strict penalties for hiring undocumented workers.
But the bill also made any immigrant who'd entered the country before 1982 eligible for amnesty -- a word not usually associated with the father of modern conservatism.
Part of this aversion is due to what is widely seen as the failure of Reagan's 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. However, one of the lead authors of the bill says that unlike most immigration reform efforts of the past 20 years, amnesty wasn't the pitfall.
"We used the word 'legalization,' " former Wyoming Sen. Alan K. Simpson tells NPR's Guy Raz. "And everybody fell asleep lightly for a while, and we were able to do legalization."
The law granted amnesty to nearly 3 million illegal immigrants, yet was largely considered unsuccessful because the strict sanctions on employers were stripped out of the bill for passage.