[George W. Bush]

Ronald Reagan signed the illegal immigrant get out of jail free bill in his second term.

But he made it clear it was a one-time event and legislation was put in place to stop further illegals. The problem we have now is largely that those laws weren't enforced. And that was only 3 million. Not 15-25 million like they tried to slip in this time. Beyond that, Reagan didn't pretend it was anything other than a one-time amnesty, a lot more honest than Teddy Kennedy and his RINO minions were about these recent shamnesty attempts.

Ronnie dealt in good faith with the issue. It's his successors in Congress and the White House that undermined his intentions.

[listenhillary]

What did Reagan used to say “Trust but verify”? Seems he ignored his own advice in thinking it would be a one time amnesty.

I would perceive it being a judgment call with not the best judgment used by GWB.

We need the labor, we need the new taxpayers and having the newly made citizen’s vote wouldn’t hurt either. It was mis-guided and was oblivious to how the conservatives felt about the issue.

Immediately deporting 12 million people out of the US isn’t feasible. I refuse to defend GWB and the administration faking out everyone last year about building a border. They were working for a solution. It’s too bad the effort for a secure border didn’t begin in 2001.
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A new thread on Ron Paul I’d like to see is “Ron Paul is elected President of the USA. Now what?”

We have the majority of the Democrats, a majority of the Media and about 1/3 of elected Republicans that would be in favor of shutting down the government before passing a “constitutionally authorized” budget.

How long will that last?