Thank you. You give me hope. I cannot watch Bammy on TV so didn’t see the speech. I nearly fell off my chair this morning when one of the bullet points of the speech on our morning news was his plan to give SSNs to all of them.
It’s not hope but, the practicality of his act isn’t as bad as we envision.
I believe I wrote something about it in the last two weeks but, I’ll expand on my original discovery and observation.
Here is a preview of what I’ll write.
I wrote this 5 days ago:
Reagan DID NOT ACT ALONE on immigration reform.
It was an initiative properly legislated, beginning with a subcommitte which became known as “Simpson/Mazzoli.
It continued through the Constitutional process, with the Bill originating in the House and was passed to the Senate, as called for in the Constitution.
The bill failed but, was brought up again and passed.
President Reagan only signed it after it went through the legislative process.
Reagan DID NOT ACT ALONE.
HE DID NOT INITIATE THE PROCESS.
That said, the bill did not result in some 10 million illegals receiving citizenship, legal resident status or worker permitting.
In fact, 20 years after the bill only 22% of the original illegal aliens obtained some sort of status.
And remember this: That 22% was only reached in the last 12 years.
The majority of Latinos felt they would be in some sort of jeopardy if they even attempted to obtain status and hence, never applied.
of the 22% who did achieve legal status, 70 +% felt they too would be in jeopardy but, with certain assurances, by various gubmint representatives, they rolled the dice as a last resort and received their vaunted legal status