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America’s Broken Immigration System: An Honest Debate

Honestly with Bari Weiss

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The Failure of the Reagan Amnesty

The 1986 amnesty did not increase legal immigration. It was a real opportunity to try to channel these future flows of workers who were coming illegally into the legal market by creating a guest worker visa program. But instead they didn't do that. And some of the actions in the few years after actually made it more difficult for people to come in lawfully.

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