They wouldn’t have marched on our cities had they not learned the lesson that President Reagan taught them twenty years earlier when he signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986: cross the border illegally, stay under the radar, overwhelm the system ... get a free ride.
Note: I didn’t support Bush’s attempted amnesty program and don’t pretend to defend it, but it isn’t what opened the floodgates.
Years after signing the bill into law - Reagan admitted it was a mistake ... no enforcement - none... at least he was man enough to admit it...
President Bush - lost all my support - for any cause - whether he was right or wrong - after he for years kept pushing Amnesty and allowed the Mexican Border to remain open ... Only an uprising of citizens scared the U.S. Senate into dropping the whole effort on June 28, 2007 when we made a million phone calls shutting down the Senate phone system...
Obama has been worse than Bush - much worse ... but had President Bush set a standard for actual and real Border security, and not promoted Amnesty for 20 million illegals again and again - Obama would have never been in a position to make matters as bad as they are now ...