[Reagan Man]

>>>>Did the amnesty in 1986 stop illegal immigration?

No it didn't. It gave 2.5 million illegals a free pass to US citizenship. If the employer sanction provisions had been enforced, we wouldn't be looking at making the same mistake one more time. Except today, at minimum, there are 12-15 million illegals in the US. In 1986 that was 1% of the population. Today its 5%, or more.

[DoughtyOne]

I believe that there will be 20 to 30 million illegals register, if we grant a guest worker amnesty program. I know they are talking about 11 million. In 1986 they talked about 1 million. That one million became 3.5 million when all was said and done. That doesn't even take into account the immediate family members that were then able to gain fast track admittance in to the U.S. We're looking at a six to ten percent increase in our official population, all made up of recent illegals who do not respect our nation's laws or citizens. I am dead set against this.