Under GHW Bush, this stopped. It never restarted.
There used to be raids of businesses, arresting and deporting illegal aliens. This stopped. It never restarted.
Now you're here to tell me, it's Reagan's fault. You site the stats of how the illegal populace grew, and have no idea what your talking about.
Our illegal alien population grew because there was very little enforcement. Inland, you had to practically go into a police station and tell them you were an illegal. Even then, if you hadn't committed a crime, they wouldn't take you into custody.
During arrests, they stopped asking if people were here illegally. When doing crime scene interviews, they quit taking people into custody who were illegal aliens.
This was not all Reagan's fault. Under Reagan all these things were taking place, and Reagan signed that bill increasing penalties to prevent illegal immigration.
Not only were those laws not enforced, they stopped enforcing any illegal immigration laws inside our nation.
At the border, sure they kept up what I consider to be a token effort. When they sent in more agents to beef up the border, they all went to work inside at the station. Apprehensions did NOT increase exponentially due to the new officers.
Do you have yearly illegal alien immigration stats from roughly 1988 to 1992? Do you have them from 1992-2000? Can we compare the numbers of illegals coming across the border during those years? No!
You don't know that the numbers spiked as soon as Reagan signed that bill. You don't know if they started or not roughly 1990-92, after it became clear Bush was going to open our doors to illegals and not send them back.
You comments about this being Reagan's fault ars baseless. You've developed a talking point that you know will rub others the wrong way, and you're running with it.
Further, when talking about this issue, it's best to address the people who currently do things to impact the situation negatively. It's best to talk about inland enforcement and beefed up border control.
It's best to address Liberals, Leftists, and RINOs. Who do you address? President Ronald Reagan.
That's a Lefist Democrat talking point.
If you're here to tarnish Reagan's legacy, you're in the wrong place. He was the best president we've had in the last 100 years, and you're go-to position is one that blames Reagan first before anyone else.
What he did was necessary. I didn't want it at the time, but the laws he signed into place would have stopped illegal immigration in it's tracks, if enforced.
Quit blaming him for the results of 27 years of no-enforcement.
Reagan was a great man. He did everything he could for you and I, and the rest of the nation. He deserves better than to have someone like you smear him without considering all the facts, or denying all of them to do it.
If Reagan thought politicians were going to enforce immigration laws, he was sadly deluded.
95%+ politicians owe their re-election chances to their rich donor class. It is NOT the middle class who keeps them in power, rather it is the donors who can single handedly contribute millions. Note that just 4 donors contributed nearly $40 million to the Cruz for president effort.
The rich donor class FAVORS influx of cheap labor. If Reagan did not recognize this he was delusional. There was no way in heck majority of politicians were going to enforce immigration laws.
Again I repeat, reward bad behavior (in this case illegal entry in US) and you will get more bad behavior. That is exactly what happened. From the 3.5 million illegals who were present during Reagan era, no we have may be 10 times as many.