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The Democrats duped Bush 41 into signing a horrible bill into law.

And the country is still paying the price for his "miscalculation" in supporting the Immigration Act of 1990:

"...Bush's signature on the Immigration Act of 1990 further increased immigration, created the diversity lottery, added new employment-based visas and granted work permits to a new migrant category, temporary protected status (TPS) holders, which dealt severe and enduring blows to Americans' job security. Abruptly, American workers were forced to compete with a growing overseas labor pool that had reached U.S. shores.

Among the new visas created in the 1990 bill was what's become the most notorious, the H-1B, originally created for specialty occupations, but which has come to dominate in the high tech industry. Also created was the H-2A for agriculture and the H-2B for low-sk**led non-ag. During the nearly four decades since Bush signed the 1990 act, H and other employment-based visas have left a documented history of fraud, abuse, and American worker displacement.

The 1990 Immigration Act also called for a commission to study how the increased pool of foreign labor would impact American workers. That commission became known as the "Jordan Commission," after its chairwoman, the late Barbara Jordan. After years of study, Jordan's commission recommended reducing immigration back to approximately 550,000 per year. After Jordan died, Congress v**ed down the commission's recommendations. Twenty years later, newly-elected Donald Trump promised: "every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families."
But two years into the Trump administration, Eddie Scary writes that Republicans, including the president, hurt themselves in the midterms by not passing popular immigration reforms: normal
for the GOP.

"81 percent of registered v**ers wanted the annual immigration rate reduced by nearly a third; nearly 80 percent said they favored an immigration system that prioritized education and sk**l level over the current chain-migration mess we currently have; and almost 70 percent said the lottery, which doles out visas to immigrants at random, should end."
Even worse, since the e******n Trump has called for more foreign workers, Senate Republicans have cut a deal with business lobbyists to double H-2B visas, and House Republicans are working to eliminate per-country caps for employment-based green cards.

In response to the last proposal, Eric Weinstein - the mathematician and managing director at Thiel Capital - says:
"You know why we developed the H-1B visa...It was to weaken American workers' bargaining positions so much that they would be *forced* to mitigate their wage demands at your bargaining table. It's a wage tampering program."

That "wage tampering program" has been ongoing for four -- now five -- administrations.

Liberty Tree

He got suckered. His big mistake was thinking he could trust a Democrat.

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And that thinking stills goes on today.