To those who talk about Reagans amnesty... What about Democrats who claim Reagan and Bush also acted unilaterally on immigration? President Reagan did pass an amnesty program through Congress in 1986, but it failed to accomplish its goals. At the time there were just 3 million illegal immigrants in the country and today there are more than 11 million. This is why most Americans do not support amnesty today. Reagan also used an executive action to ease immigration standards for 200,000 Nicaraguans who feared persecution from the communist Sandinista regime. President Bush used similar powers to grant deportation relief to hundreds of Kuwaiti nationals who had been evacuated to the United States during the first Gulf War. But both of these executive actions were perfectly in line with the true scope of a presidents prosecutorial discretion powers. They were limited in nature, applied to specific smaller groups of immigrants, and were not designed to thwart congressional intent on immigration policy. Obamas amnesty is the exact opposite. It is a broad-based program in response to no crisis other than Congress isnt doing what Obama wants it to do. As Obama once said, Thats not how our system works. That’s not how our democracy functions. Thats not how our Constitution is written.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 02:16:53 +0000
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