“How can we win a majority of the Hispanic vote?” President Obama asks his staff.
“I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and lived here, even though sometime back they may have entered illegally,” Ronald Reagan said in 1984.
According to NPR “The law (signed by President Reagan) granted amnesty to nearly 3 million illegal immigrants, yet was largely considered unsuccessful because the strict sanctions on employers were stripped out of the bill for passage.”
What that law did provide was an encouragement of another 12 million illegal immigrants.
What do you suppose Obama’s decision to issue work permits to grown children who came here as babies will do? My expectation is that there will be another wave of illegal immigrants.