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You know what, I'm glad you brought this up.
How ******* hard can it be to come up with an Immigration plan.
Well, apparently it is unsolvable, because no matter which party presents a bill, the other side will oppose it.
My gawd, Just come up with a plan, and we won't have this "Illegal immigrant" problem, no matter who control POTUS or Congress.
I'm pissed at our Politicians, who are supposed to work 'for the people' but they don't. Both ******* Sides.
Sorry, this isn't a "bothsides" issue. Not any more. Maybe in 1986.
The Establishment Republicans tried hard to negotiate in good faith with the Democrats, so each could get what they wanted. The GOP wanted a secure border, and the DNC wanted legal status for illegals already in the country.
Flawed law
The Immigration Reform and Control Act was, in broad terms, no different than the approach being tried today. It was cast as a "three-legged stool" that had improved border security and penalties for hiring illegal immigrants; a temporary agricultural worker program; and legalization of immigrants who arrived in the United States before 1982.
It has become popular for Republican commentators to say Reagan was fooled by Democrats to grant amnesty in exchange for a false promise of tougher border control. But the legislation was pushed by members of both parties and its failure bears bipartisan fingerprints.
"It's revisionist history," said Demetrios Papademetriou, president of the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute. "The narrative is produced by people who have opposed reform."
Lawmakers wrestled with immigration for more than a decade leading up to 1986 and were eager to move on, Papademetriou said. "They felt they took care of the issue. Nobody was going to invest significant money on additional border control." The bill called for a 50 percent increase in Border Patrol officers but did not provide a guarantee for funding.
The tsunami of illegal immigrants did not begin until the 1990s, exposing another shortcoming of the bill Reagan signed. It did not account for demand for low-skilled workers as the economy grew, what is known as "future flow." With no legal avenue, immigrants snuck into the country or overstayed visas.
Employers faced penalties for hiring illegal immigrants but there was little threat. They did not have to verify, for example, that documents workers provided were real. Fakes were common. Immigration officers also could not enter a farm without a search warrant or the owner's permission.
WASHINGTON — As the national debate over immigration reform began last week, a GOP-leaning advocacy group circulated talking points for Republicans. Among them: Don't mention Ronald Reagan.
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The failure of those establishment Republicans to hold Democrats accountable to keep their promise of border security is a big part of what led to the Trump Revolution.
Trump's plan was not about punishing employers or finding the root cause of illegal immigration, temporary work visas or paths to citizenship. It was focused only on stopping the flow at the border, but took a multi-pronged approach to that goal. Securing the border with a barrier, negotiating the brilliant Remain in Mexico Policy that benefitted both the U.S. and Mexico, and stopping the catch and release (in the U.S.) of migrants claiming "asylum" when they were in fact looking for welfare and low-skilled jobs to take from Americans.
We were making progress in securing the border, while preventing a surge of gangs, human traffickers and deadly drugs that Biden is facilitating. That is part of the reason for the hysteria surrounding the phony investigations of Trump. He took away the Dems leverage for negotiating amnesty. Once he had secured the border, he could have taken the compassionate stance that real Americans are noted for when he dealt with DREAMers and long time undocumented workers with no other crimes than border jumping.
But first things first: Stop the flood of illegals that Obama encouraged. Now, his task will be harder in 2025, but he can do it as long as he stays healthy. When he starts to Biden it up, VP DeSantis can take over and finish the job.
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