When their hissy fits subside over Pres. Obama’s announcement last week that he is instructing immigration police to exempt about 800,000 children of undocumented workers from deportation, it would be instructive to remind GOPT spittle-spewers that their patron saint, Ronald Reagan, signed a law in 1986 that provided amnesty to 3 million “illegals”:
[In] 1986, Ronald Reagan signed a sweeping immigration reform bill into law. It was sold as a crackdown: There would be tighter security at the Mexican border, and employers would face strict penalties for hiring undocumented workers.
But the bill also made any immigrant who’d entered the country before 1982 eligible for amnesty … The law 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.
Republicans who sat on their hands — the ones, that is, who were not applauding — when George W. Bush signed more than 270 executive orders, including one that authorized the wiretapping without court order of American citizens, were upset that Pres. Obama exercised his right to change the immigrants’ disposition by executive order. John Yoo, the author of Bush’s infamous “torture memo” — essentially an executive order authorizing the government to torture terror suspects — had the temerity to say, “President Obama’s claim that he can refuse to deport 800,000 aliens here in the country illegally illustrates the unprecedented stretching of the Constitution and the rule of law.”
Republicans were also upset that Obama’s action was “political,” given that it was done five months before the presidential election. Reagan’s amnesty law was introduced by his party’s majority in the U.S. Senate in May 1986, six months before the congressional elections. Republicans pushed the law through with the hope that the promise of amnesty would help them win Latino voters and keep control of the Senate in the fall.
Their hopes were dashed, however. On Election Day that Nov. 4, the Senate flipped from 47 Democrats and 53 Republicans to 55 Democrats and 45 Republicans. Two days later, Reagan signed the amnesty law into effect.
Yeah Reagan sucked, he was a complete douchebag for his spending habits and sellout to illegal immigrants that break the law of the US.
Can not find the emergency medical act Reagan brought into existence to protect the illegal immigrants harvesting our food. Sure this was part of this package I wanted to share with my nightie friends who believe this guy could be dug up and still be relevant with teabags, wanted to see the shock register. Of course he did this to help flood the labor market to hurt the workers standard of living and ruining the unions. As an x-American Democratic Union member the cross over to the dark side was 180%, from love of union member’s and country, to attacking the US and unions and any worker getting a decent living wage. The descent to the bottom for workers started with this guy. But has someone tampered with this act or was it all by itself? It was called something like an Emergency Medical Act. might not have the word illegal Immigrant. Would like anyone with specifics to drop me a note. Joe6pK
Lemme know when you stop frothing long enough to define the difference between a bill capable of passing congress and an EO designed to buy votes that wouldn’t have passed this one.
Thank you, Recon! Finally a reasoned, not to mention true, presentation of the facts. The rest of these morons are Obama drones.
Foxbot Dittohead fuckwits, do your research. Reagan had a rubberstamp GOP Senate led by Bob Dole and a Democratic House led by Speaker Tip O’Neill. Obama has a neo-Confederate tea bagger Congress that is the most obstructionist in history.
There is a HUGE difference between signing a law passed LEGALLY BY CONGRESS and a president acting unilaterally and ILLEGALLY! Get you heads out of your Arse!
Tammy, please read: “Impeachable? Here Are 18 Immigration Executive Orders Issued by Republican Presidents Eisenhower, Ford, Reagan, Bush and Bush.” Why weren’t their executive orders on immigration illegal? Why weren’t these Republican presidents impeached for doing exactly what Pres. Obama is preparing to do?
Do you Grubers even understand the difference between signing legislation passed by Congress and flaunting the law?
Reagan signed an executive order deferring deportation of undocumented children in 1987. George H.W. Bush signed an executive order deferring deportation of undocumented spouses and children in 1990. Presidents Eisenhower, Ford and George W. Bush signed similar orders — 18 in all among five Republican presidents, none of whom were impeached. They’re listed here.
What a bunch of lies coming from these liberals. Reagan did not issue any Executive Order to defer the deportation of illegal aliens. That’s a fallacy! Executive Order 12324, Interdiction of Illegal Aliens, signed by President Reagan to stop the flow of illegal into the United States. The amnesty given to illegal was a bipartisan agenda and almost 2 million people were eligible out of the almost 10 million undocumented.
Ramhid, you’re the one who’s lying. Executive Order 12324 signed by Reagan was to stop Haitians from arriving by boats.
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