So they set about passing the legislation in the House and the Senate
that granted amnesty, they thought, to a million people. That amnesty
legislation went to the Ronald Reagan's White House, where he was
surrounded by a group of people in the Cabinet who were his advisers. I
am sure they had the best interests of the country's and the
President's in mind, but they had decided to advise Ronald Reagan that
he should sign the amnesty act because he could put this issue away,
well, maybe forever, but for the duration of our Republic because we
were always going to enforce immigration law from that point forward. And Ronald Reagan, I don't have inside knowledge on what he was
thinking on the deliberations that went on. I just know that most of
his Cabinet advised him to sign the Amnesty Act. He ultimately signed
the Amnesty Act. Consequently, when they began processing these illegal aliens, there
were only going to be--I say ``only.'' They thought it was a huge
number--1 million. There were going to be 1 million of them to process. Well, they processed 3 million instead of 1 million.
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