At the infamous Madison Square Garden hate rally, Trump’s close advisor Stephen Miller railed against immigrants. If Trump is elected, Miller will be in charge of the program to round up and expel millions of undocumented immigrants.
And Trump adviser Stephen Miller, who has shaped many of Trump’s immigration policies, said Americans are having their jobs “looted and stolen from them” and sent to foreign countries.
He went even further: “America is for America and Americans only,” he said, a starkly anti-immigration view that advances what has already been said throughout the campaign.
But President Ronald Reagan had a different message. This was his last message as President. He devoted it to welcoming immigrants. During his time in office, he passed legislation to reform the immigration system so that all immigrants entered legally. He extended amnesty to those who were in the U.S. without documents.
An immigration website describes Reagan’s bipartisan legislation:
A few months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan issued a “Statement on United States Immigration and Refugee Policy” in which he outlined his goals to continue America’s tradition of welcoming people from other countries, especially those fleeing oppression. He called for the millions of undocumented “illegal immigrants” present in the country to be given recognition and a path to legal status — without encouraging further illegal immigration.
On Nov. 6, 1986 Ronald Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, the most far-reaching immigration law passed during his presidency. The Act’s most significant effect was that it allowed immigrants who had entered the U.S. illegally before Jan. 1, 1982 to apply for legal status, provided they paid fines and back taxes. This provision — which Reagan himself referred to as “amnesty,” allowed around 3 million immigrants to secure legal status after paying $185, demonstrating “good moral character” and learning to speak English.
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Ironically, it was Reagan who put us on the path to Trump by embracing the mandate of the Powell memo, with successive presidents from both parties continuing the destructive forces of neoliberal capitalism, Friedmanism, of which Trump was the poster boy in the Greed Is Good 80s.
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Reagan agreed to amnesty for illegal aliens under the promise that the border would be SECURED! Of course democrats had no intention of keeping that promise. Now we have 20-30 million illegal aliens and democrats want amnesty with NO conditions. The democrats don’t care and have never cared what the American people want.
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We were doing so great today, I thought it was going to be a troll-free day. But, alas, troll5598 decided to make an appearance with her usual balderdash, malarkey and outright lies. As the Italians say, che peccato.
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Where did you get your information?
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There are plenty of analyses of the failure of Reagan’s immigration policy. I’ve read a few. None of them assert the problem was Democrats dragging their feet on securing the border. Several analyses criticize the admin’s tougher border enforcement, which simply resulted in funneling crossings to less-policed rural areas, as well as to innovative workarounds like using coyotes and digging tunnels. Also fingers pointed at the failure of sanctions on employers hiring illegals.
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“Stephen Miller, who has shaped many of Trump’s immigration policies, said Americans are having their jobs “looted and stolen from them” and sent to foreign countries.“
While some manufacturing jobs went to other countries, more jobs have been lost to another factor: AUTOMATION.
Jobs Lost to Automation Statistics in 2024 | TeamStage
“In 2023, the manufacturing sector contributed $2.8 trillion to the United States’ gross domestic product (GDP), which is a little more than 10% of the country’s total economic output. This was a slight increase from the previous year, when the manufacturing sector contributed $2.79 trillion to the GDP.”
Yet, while the GDP of the maneuvering sector continued to grow, human employment in that sector continues to shrink.
Is U.S. Manufacturing Really Declining? (stlouisfed.org)
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