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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Doomed to Repeat
  • Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 11:33:21 EDT



> >I was a bit young in '86, and oblivious (most likely). To what
> specificlly are you referring?
>

In '86 we had an illegal immigrant problem, nothing on the scope of what we
have now, but a problem none the less.

Reagan pushed through the IRCA (Immigration Reform and Contol Act) which
admitted that the government conceded that there was little they could do
about the illegals that were in the country at the time, so it made a quick
path
to legal status and citizenship for them all under the guise that this was
it. After that it was to be a no tolerance, iron-clad policy of cracking
down on employers and illegals and really, really enforcing immigration laws.

The first part took effect and put some several million anchor families in
place legally in the US.

The second part never took place. In fact it made the situation much, much
worse with the results we see today.

And it is true that we are poised to repeat this same mistake in spades.
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