Because Reagan was influenced by Deep State to support and sign the bill, there were several parts of it NEVER attempted or badly executed to try and control further illegal entry:
1) Requiring employers to stipulate that their employees had legal immigration status,
2) Making it illegal for an employer to knowingly hire an illegal immigrant,
3) Creating a guest worker plan for certain seasonal agricultural workers, and
4) Increasing enforcement personnel on the U.S. borders.
Legalizing the illegal immigrants who entered the country before Jan. 1, 1982 and had been U.S. residents continuously since then, in exchange for back taxes, fines and admission of entering the country illegally.
No follow up, no control, and those provisions that were addressed were given Deep State lip service and then business as usual.
To start off with Reagan to blame and then hustle on off to Trump’s Fault is pretty duplicitous in my book. Trump, Covid, blah, blah.....just an excuse for whatever reason one wants to try and foist this off on real conservatives.
In just the 2-3 years of that puke Biden we’ve seen a cataclysmic destruction of our border control system. Our border is just a line on a damned map, and Reagan and Trump DID NOT DO THAT!
We need to repeal Simpson-Mazzoli.
President Reagan said signing that bill was his biggest mistake.