SENS. JOHN MCCAIN and Ted Kennedy recently unveiled legislation that would give legal status-amnesty-to 10 million illegal aliens, and create a guest-worker program to admit even more foreign workers. They have an impressive collection of congressional supporters and interest groups behind them. But a bipartisan endorsement list can’t hide the fact that this bill is a hoax we’ve seen before.
In essence it is the same as the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act: amnesty up front for millions of illegal aliens, and promises to enforce immigration law. Such promises are quickly abandoned-but in 1986, people didn’t know that yet.
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