If ANYONE here on FR hires illegals to do their yards, etc.. FIRE THEM IMMEDIATELY! DON'T BE A HYPOCRITE!!!!!
Under Reagan there was work place enforcement, detention and deportation. The IRS made raids on businesses regularly.
Reagan stiffened the laws concerning businesses that hired illegals. He increased our agents on the border.
Reagan did not do something to increase illegal immigration. His amnesty would not have done that, if the bill he signed into law had been enforced.
George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Barack Obama failed to do work place enforcement. They all signed off on allowing illegals to tap government services rather than deport.
Bush Jr. announced he was going to grant amnesty to millions of illegals, and the numbers went wild. He had nobody but his daddy on down to blame for what ails us today.
Reagan did his best to stop an infinitesimal flow of immigrants, something he saw as a big problem even at that rate.
Immigration had not been addressed for thirty years prior to Reagan. He was assured there were only 1 million illegals in country, symbolic of a flow of around 33,000 per year. Even at that rate, he wanted it stopped.
If the bill he signed had been enforced, it would have stopped. Illegals would not have been able to work here. The flow would have remained low due to that. The border force we had would have been equal to the task.
Reagan did not sign off on no inland enforcement.
Reagan did not sign off on illegal immigrants getting government aide.
Reagan did no sign off on employers being able to hire all the illegals they wanted to with impunity.
Blaming him for what is taking place today, is not reasoned.
” This will do more to increase the UNABATED scourge of illegal aliens than Reagan’s amnesty did. The word is spreading in Mexico and they will overrun us in droves.”
That is Obama’s plan.