Three million illegals were given US citizenship under Reagan's amnesty. Furthermore, the punitive terms of the amnesty and preconditional border enforcement regimen was NEVER ENFORCED.
Worst of all, that amnesty encouraged the illegals we got since 1983 that another amnesty would just be a matter of time. Knowing what we know now, if Trump agrees to this he's finished, and so is America.
And that is the point. It was never enforced and more flooded in and 30 years later we are still fighting it with 11 million more.
I am calling BS on anyone who claims otherwise. It is a joke for the above reason.
The Seven Amnesties Passed by Congress
1. Immigration and Reform Control Act (IRCA), 1986: A blanket amnesty for some 2.7 million illegal aliens
2. Section 245(i) Amnesty, 1994: A temporary rolling amnesty for 578,000 illegal aliens
3. Section 245(i) Extension Amnesty, 1997: An extension of the rolling amnesty created in 1994
4. Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA) Amnesty, 1997: An amnesty for close to one million illegal aliens from Central America
5. Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act Amnesty (HRIFA), 1998: An amnesty for 125,000 illegal aliens from Haiti
6. Late Amnesty, 2000: An amnesty for some illegal aliens who claim they should have been amnestied under the 1986 IRCA amnesty, an estimated 400,000 illegal aliens
7. LIFE Act Amnesty, 2000: A reinstatement of the rolling Section 245(i) amnesty, an estimated 900,000 illegal aliens