No sale. The borders were barely on the radar way back then.
That was a totally completely different era with a total different set of facts.
That occurred that was *before* we were totally inundated upwards of 30 million illegals in the past 20 years.
It’s become so bad in the past decade or two, there is now a war on the Texas border, as these millions have completely choked off, subverted and undermined our entire system.
Again, nice try.
The problem may be many times worse now but it was on the radar then in CO. I recall well the influx of illegals into construction in the early ‘80s causing wages to remain low.
I sat on the porch of my Navy “A” school instructor in San Ysidro and spotlighted illegals with Q-Beams attached to car batteries. We would drink beer and dial the BP and report them all night. You could do it 7 days a week in 1981 and stay busy at it. You know not of what you speak. I was there.
My buddy and I were pulling off the highway at 0’dark-thirty to be at a surf spot for sunrise when we had to lock it up to keep from hitting about 30 illegals who had just been let out of a truck. This stuff happened all the time 30 years ago. It was particularly amazing to me. I grew up on the beach in FL and had ever seen anything like that. If you think it was not a problem then you are sadly misinformed.