re: So if amnesty didn't work the first go around why would it work now?

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I'm pretty ignorant about the details of Reagan's amnesty but wasn't the agreement to allow amnesty in exchange for strengthening the border with the latter never occurring?

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Pretty sure you answered your own question. Amnesty would prbly have been alright if more people would not have come in. Illegal immigration will be an issue as long as there are illegal immigrants.

currently, i don't know of a viable solution that would not include a track for allowing illegals to become citizens and would not include a way to prevent more illegals from coming in.

If it doesn't have both components, i dont think we are really fixing the problem. Unless you cut off the reason the are coming, $, and that would seem to be pretty difficult.