[Reagan Man]

>>>>>At least Reagan called it an amnesty.

Reagan called it "legalization". The IRCA of 1986 was part of a three prong effort to toughen US border security, punish employers who hired illegals with up to a million fine and to grant a limited number of illegals with citizenship. Reagan's emphasis was on illegal alien employment. Reagan understood, you stop hiring illegals and you stop the vast majority of illegal immigration.

Too bad the Dem's led by Teddy Kennedy had other ideas. Instead of 300K being granted citizenship, 2.7 million were given amnesty.

[kabar]

Legalization is amnesty. The government estimated that 1 million would apply and the real number turned out to be 2.7 million.

Ed Meese: If this sounds familiar, it’s because these are pretty much the same provisions included in the Comprehensive Reform Act of 2006, which its supporters claim is not amnesty. In the end, slight differences in process do not change the overriding fact that the 1986 law and the recent Senate legislation both include an amnesty. The difference is that President Reagan called it for what it was.

And it was supposed to be a one-time amnesty.