Posted on 05/16/2006 5:39:20 AM PDT by LowCountryJoe
"In view of the reluctance of Americans to take those jobs it's interesting yo see what kind of workers crossed the border & the Ocean to pick New England Apples. Some of the Jamaicans have counted on this work for a number of years. Their job's at home have to do with the tourist trade and are therefore seasonal. They come here,pick applies in New Eng., sugar cain {sic] in the South and go home to their seasonal work."
- see K. K. Skinner et al., ed. Reagan, in His Own Hand. New York: Free Press, 2000.
Clearly, as President Reagan understood the problems in 1977, he envisioned an immigration system that permitted foreign workers to work when U.S. citizens would not/did not take jobs, and that those foreign worker's stays were of a temporary nature.
---- And with that, Reagan signed in law the 1986 amnesty that turned a small immigration problem into a BIG immigration problem. That bill was a total failure. Now, we are looking at a bill remarkably similar, only more generous to illegal immigrants and with amnesty perhaps five times larger.
If this is trying to make a point by showing us "What would Reagan Do?" the question has to be asked: Is Ronald Reagan the type of man to make the same massive mistake twice?
"Immigrants, even the illegal ones, add to our economy once all of the numbers get fleshed out.Immigrants, even the illegal ones, add to our economy once all of the numbers get fleshed out."
Legal high-skilled immigrants, yes.
Illegal and low-skilled immigrants, no.
And the imbalance gets worse going from illegal to legal.
If it took a wall to stop 9/11, would Reagan have built a wall?
WAKE UP FOLKS! In 1986, Reagan had a common-sense conservative view - amnesty but ONLY IF there were employer sanctions as well, 'draconian' employer sanction ... But, KENNEDY GUTTED THE EMPLOYER SANCTIONS IN THE BILL. As a result, the 1986 bill was a failure. The only impact was to make the situation worse, and to deliver millions of votes for Democrats in the 1990s.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,122297,00.html
In exchange for legal status for the group, Reagan insisted that the magnet attracting illegal aliens to the United States be removed by extinguishing any incentive for U.S. employers to hire illegal aliens. In tandem with the amnesty, Reagan campaigned for employer sanctions for hiring illegal aliens, sanctions so stringent that many at the time regarded them as draconian.
Reagan reasoned that if an employer were fined for hiring an illegal alien (as much as $1 million in the worst cases), any payroll savings achieved by the hiring would be wiped out by the fine. In effect, it would be more expensive to hire illegal aliens than to hire Americans or lawful permanent residents. The few illegal aliens who continued to take the gamble and cross the border would be intercepted by a robust and more generously funded Border Patrol.
While Reagan’s 1986 immigration reforms (search) can at least be called rational, they were a failure. Today, there are between 8 million and 11 million illegal aliens in the United States. The majority of them crossed our southern border and has found employment — illegal employment, but employment nonetheless. This is attributed to Sen. Ted Kennedy’s eventual gutting of the enforcement mechanism for Reagan's employer sanctions, and successive administrations refusing to give our Border Patrol the resources it needs to achieve its mission."
"We need to cut off the goodies, allow enforcement to enforce, stop ordering city cops not to help them, and also oversee that they DO enforce the law. And that's for starters."
The Senate CIRA bill, written by Kennedy makes it WORSE on all counts!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1635900/posts
Reagan had a democrat House and a democrat Senate.. and he selected two turncoats as Supremes.. Amazing that he got ANYTHING DONE.. at all.. but he did.. The boy had theives and traitors 360 degrees around him..
Reagan never fathomed the invasion we have today.
When I was a kid back in 1982, I remeber that the vast majority of construction workers, food industry workers and truck drivers at the time were Americans, and this was in Los Angeles County.
They have been around of course, but not in the sheer numbers they are today. Except for Ag jobs, most of the so called jobs that "Americans wont do" were done by Americans into the late 80s, early 90s.
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