[maica]

Also, in 1986 Central American parents were sending their fighting-age sons to the US to keep them from being conscripted into the wars going on in Nicaragua and El Salvador. It would have be risking their deaths to return them to their home countries.

[kabar]

That wasn’t the reason why Reagan signed the amnesty bill, which was clearly a mistake using hindsight. Meese has said it was a mistake and that Reagan would have agreed with him.