Sure, it legalized them, very fast. It brought them to the top of the line. Nice try at being cute, it failed. Thank you for playing.
That is one of the most insanely stupid things I've read on this site. And there's alot of birthers around here. You don't have the first clue what you're talking about. Reagan did not legalize
anyone with that Executive Order. Nobody was brought to "the top of the line." It was nothing more than an administrative action, particularly referencing this:
[S}ervice in the military, air or naval forces of the United States shall be proved by a duly authenticated certification from the executive department under which the applicant served or is serving, which shall state whether the applicant served honorably in an active-duty status during either World War I or during a period beginning September 1, 1939, and ending December 31, 1946, or during a period beginning June 25, 1950, and ending July 1, 1955, or during a period beginning February 28, 1961, and ending on a date designated by the President by Executive order as the date of termination of the Vietnam hostilities, or thereafter during any other period which the President by Executive order shall designate as a period in which Armed Forces of the United States are or were engaged in military operations involving armed conflict with a hostile foreign force, and was separated from such service under honorable conditions.
Reagan was acting explicitly within statutory prescriptions of a law that was created by Congress. Also, what you either are too stupid to understand, or are too dishonest to admit, is that
these were applications for naturalization by legal aliens, following the legally prescribed avenues to citizenship.
Tsk, tsk, you know not what you write, but you scream a lot.
Executive Orders
"Executive Order 12582--Naturalization requirements exceptions for aliens and non-citizen nationals of the United States who served in the Grenada campaign
Source: The provisions of Executive Order 12582 of Feb. 2, 1987, appear at 52 FR 3395, 3 CFR, 1987 Comp., p. 201, unless otherwise noted.
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including Section 1440 of Title 8, United States Code,
and in order to provide expedited naturalization for aliens and non-citizens who served in the Armed Forces in the Grenada campaign, it is hereby ordered as follows:
For the purpose of determining qualification for the exceptions from the usual requirements for naturalization, the period of Grenada military operations in which the Armed Forces of the United States were engaged in armed conflict with a hostile foreign force commenced on October 25, 1983, and terminated on November 2, 1983.
Those persons serving honorably in active-duty status in the Armed Forces of the United States during this period, in the Grenada campaign, are eligible for naturalization in accordance with the statutory exceptions to the naturalization requirements, as provided in Section 1440(b) of Title 8, United States Code. Qualifying active-duty service includes service conducted, during this period, on the islands of Grenada, Carriacou, Green Hog, and those islands adjacent to Grenada in the Atlantic Seaboard where such service was in direct support of the military operations in Grenada. Qualifying active-duty service during this period also includes service conducted in the air space above Grenada, in the adjacent seas where operations were conducted, and at the Grantly Adams International Airport in Barbados."
That is called "front of the line", just as I described it. That is what the word "expedited" means.
Care to try again, or are you going to call this bunk?
Because it is not, it is directly from the national archives and was signed as an EO on Feb. 2, 1987, by then Pres. Reagan.
Thank you for playing.
