Meaning it only covered the wound or problem but didn't heal it?
2007-09-04 04:16:25 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
I think the problem was in the lack of enforcing the laws. At first, just the news about the law being passed helped to decrease illegal immigration. But then it was enforced less and less with each passing year until it was finally completely ignored.
Now that there are millions of illegals here and the American people are outraged, it is going to be an enormous problem to deal with. I get the impression the government really doesn't want to deal with it since it took them so long to begin enforcing the laws again.
2007-09-04 04:26:03 · answer #1 · answered by BekindtoAnimals22 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I am not going to name names or parties because I am trying to keep this factual and not emotion loaded.
It was an honest attempt to fix the problem however the sitting Congress double crossed the sitting President and never passed the second part of the legislation. Had they done so, we would not have near the problem today.
The first legislation was the amnesty. The second legislation was to put real teeth into use of stolen identities, hiring illegal workers, and being in the USA without proper documentation. Those measures were never passed and so the Amnesty of '86 was not a FIX at all.
2007-09-04 11:46:58 · answer #2 · answered by Coasty 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The 1987 amnesty was far worse than a bandaid, it was pouring acid in the wound.
Studies on the 1987 amnestied alien population proved that those 1.4 million amnestied aliens cost this nation hundreds of billions in subsidies. Far more than they have ever paid into the system, or contributed.
The state of California was almost broken by supporting the bulk of those amnestied.
The children of those amnestied aliens, those they brought in before the amnesty, the ones they brought in after the amnesty, and the ones they gave birth to after amnestied will end up costing the US taxpayers more billions for a long time.
One of the biggest problems was that a great number of illegal aliens came across the border and used fraudulent papers (like forged rent receipts) to claim that they had been living in the USA when they had not. They obtained "amnesty" through fraud.
Another of the biggest problems was the "chain migration", the amnestied aliens brought in millions of relatives and friends, entire towns emptied in Mexico, with the promise that there would be another "amnesty", and you too will qualify for full welfare benifits.
This was one of the most important considerations in the last amnesty proposal, and one of the reasons it was killed.
There will never be another amnesty.
Studies done on the 1987 amnesty are in, the results are that is was a disaster for this nation, and for the individual states which are overburdened with illegal aliens.
That amnesty has proven that an amnesty is not going to end illegal immigration, it only encourages more illegal aliens to come in.
Amnesty is not the answer
2007-09-04 11:35:18 · answer #3 · answered by cheyenne_Z 1 · 4⤊ 1⤋
It never was intended to fix the problem, it was not even a band-aid, it was more like a placebo. From the very start it was never funded or enforced, it was just the start of a on going process to ensure cheap labor, and the rights of the illegals to bring over as many family and friends to pursue the American Dream at the expense of the American tax payer, and our way of life, press two for Spanish.
2007-09-04 12:12:57 · answer #4 · answered by jean 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither. There was no fix or "band-aid". All the '86 Bill did was add to a problem as opposed to actually spending the time, and money needed to REALLY fix the problem.
What they SHOULD have done was spend the time tracking these illegals down, and the money deporting them!
If it had "fixed" the problem, then there never would have been an up-surge in illegal immigration after-the-fact, and we wouldn't even be discussing this now...
It's just that simple.
2007-09-04 11:46:00 · answer #5 · answered by kill-joy 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't even know if I could equate it to a band aid. Illegals kept coming in larger numbers and I think part of the reason was that the 86 amnesty gave them encouragement. Since we weren't tough on it then, we are in our current situation.
2007-09-04 13:01:32 · answer #6 · answered by Mr. Black 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think it's just basic child psychology. If you want a child to take you seriously as an authority figure, you don't play this game. Your rules are sacrosanct and discipline is firm and fair. Once you let a child know that you have no intention of enforcing your rules, he will see how far he can push the envelope.
We've created this problem by refusing to support our own laws -- the ones WE wrote AND by allowing others to benefit and prosper by breaking the laws.
2007-09-04 11:29:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Bandaids stop the blood at least temporarily. I fail to see where the '86 amnesty earned that designation.
2007-09-04 11:21:26 · answer #8 · answered by DAR 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It was only a problem to America workers - it gave the business owners and corporations the endless supply of cheap labor that they crave so it worked for them.
2007-09-04 11:51:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
We have only 2,200 ICE Agents for the whole country!
We should have 100,000 Ice Agents!
I'll be on the phone and e-mailing my congressman today!
Remember what Ted Kennedy said right before that Bill was signed?
"The border will ah, ah, henceforth be secured."
What a ******* *liar* he is.
2007-09-04 11:47:22 · answer #10 · answered by tom p 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋