The immigration law in '86 was supposed to legalize 1.5 million illegals, which turned out to be closer to 4 million in reality.
It was also supposed to prevent more illegals from working here without green cards and never, ever were illegals supposed to be given any kind of government assistance!
Democrats running Congress, never had any intention of putting into effect, the teeth to prevent another 1.5 - 4 million illegals to cross our borders and many, if not most Republicans elected came to understand that those businesses that gave them big donations, never wanted the spigot of cheap labor turned off!
After Reagan left office, the first Bush President, welcomed more and more illegals, thanks to the big party donors; the social service agencies, both government and non-profit "religious institutions" made millions out of "serving migrant communities;" the NEA got in on the act and demanded taxpayer funding to more school buildings, teachers, especially the English immersion (which never materialized - the schools went ahead and taught the kids in Spanish so that even illegal's kids born in the U.S. spoke with a Spanish accent because that's all they heard at both home and school!).
Welfare, WIC, free meals at school, first lunch, later breakfast and now back packs to take home for later, medical, dental, education, Section 8 housing "allowances," you name it, they (illegal aliens) get it and the grown up kids if the original Amnesty aliens realize that millions more illegals are no longer coming for the field jobs their parents worked at, they are coming to America for Santa Clause government give-aways they will get.
And, no, they have no desire to assimilate, liberals assure them they not only don't have to speak English, anyone demanding that they do is a racist and should be sued!
Excellent and informative post, and I’ll second everything you say. I saw that all myself.