I know when and which POTUS. It was 1954 and it was Ike.
Nice try -- but .
Ike implemented "Operation Wetback". Illegals were rounded up by the INS and deported en masse. The ones who didn't get caught got so scared they VOLUNTARILY fled back to México. By the end 1,000,000,000 ILLEGALS were 'removed'. Which at the time was practically all of them
Now if you'd like to talk about recent times, how's this -- in 2000, there was an estimated Seven Million illegals in the USA. We now have at least, 14 Million (maybe 20), so in five years Dubya has ALLOWED the ILLEGAL population to at least double.
And if you note, four of those years was after 9-11-2001 when he supposedly, allegedly, hypothetically, in his dreams, "closed our borders to protect us".
In short, his 'immigration stratergy' SUCKS.
It sucks, just as Clintons, GHWB's, and RWR's and Fords did.
NOW, he is talking about fixing it. We've had 30 years minimum of unfettered access, and GWB is PROPOSING to fix it. Where is your anger at the congress for the last 30 years. They are lawmakers, are they not?