Who was the last president to offer large scale amnesty to illegal aliens in the US?

Anonymous2010-05-06T15:40:11Z

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President Ronald Reagan granted Amnesty to 1.7 million illegal aliens.


86' Amnesty proves rewarding illegal aliens only encourage more illegal aliens to break the law.

geake2016-12-07T10:22:06Z

He develop into proper then, and it truly is immediately. The very very last human beings responsible for the immigration mess is the immigrants and their households right here doing the paintings that desires finished - and those are the those that deserve an amnesty for criminal status. Amnesty for criminal status does no longer placed across citizenship. It develop into the authorities that did not protect the border. it develop into the authorities that regarded any incorrect way as thousands of yankee agencies and households employed unlawful immigrants. We invited them in with a nod and a wink to guard the interests of yankee agencies - who did not desire sufficient criminal immigration which could have required them to pay honest wages and ideal payroll taxes. And American agencies do not desire it now - or amnesty for those already right here as which will effect interior an same difficulty. What they desire is to impunity from utilizing them at the same time as they proceed to be unlawful with a porous sufficient border to insure sufficient exertions furnish - In different words the status quo. The mess is ours to clean up - and that contains recognizing that the solid majority of undocumented workers could were allowed in legally contained in the first position. recognizing that ripping their households aside because we did no longer have sufficient immigration coverage is punishing the incorrect human beings. conserving an enduring unlawful underclass might want to serve the agency interests, even though it does no longer serve the country or the human beings stuck in those shadows.

Coasty2010-05-06T15:42:07Z

President Ronald Reagan did it last time, and according to the law that granted it it was a one time deal and not repeatable.

February12010-05-06T16:18:17Z

That would be Ronald Reagan. GW Bush gave us the 'expanded guest worker' program.

Why then are the Right crying about illegal aliens? foreign workers? etc.

Anonymous2010-05-07T07:03:41Z

Reagan and now look at the situation, just more illegals

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