Failed in 80s, failed in the 90s, failed in the last 15 years. We're still waiting.
She said not really much, that he was loud and a braggart. I asked her why she thought he was popular with many people and she said that she thought because of some things he said about illegals and all.
I mentioned the so-called "need for immigration 'reform'" and she said she guessed that it might solve some of our problems but that Reagan probably made matters worse when he didn't build the fence.
I told her that if Congress refused to enforce and support their own law (Simpson/Massoli) in 1986, when they manuvered Reagan into giving some 3M illegals amnesty, why would they do any different now? I also mentioned that Congress claimed that there were 1.3M illegal aliens in '86, when, in fact it was more than 3M, don't you think that if the government is claiming there are some 11+M now, you can probably triple that number and that in '86, not all 3+M illegals came forward to get amnesty because they didn't want to pay taxes and managed to "live in the shadows" since then. I told her that people who break the law, have no problem with breaking other laws.
I told her that illegals either worked off the books with cash under the table from employers that loved the idea, or they worked with false IDs, which for me or her would be a felony but not for illegal aliens, at least not under the proposed "Immigration Reform" law!
I'm assuming that anyone of the bunch running for President, who declared their intent to enforce the Simpson/Massoli law and explained what it entailed, that candidate would sail to the head of the pack!