Time magazine asks can it work? Read the article from the 80’s…see if any of the arguments for amnesty sound familiar.

The bill’s purpose is to regain “control of our own borders,” in President Reagan’s words, and to prevent the further explosion of a shadow society composed of immigrants who live in the U.S. outside either the protection or the obligations of American law

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But these calculations assume that the total population of illegal aliens is somewhere around 6 million. Some experts think the real figure might be twice as high. An even more vexing question is how many immigrants would risk identifying themselves to the INS. They would have to present such documents as rent receipts…

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Simpson-Mazzoli’s defenders think it can eventually slow, if not stop, the influx of new illegal immigrants, but concede that it will take time and increased enforcement (the bill would also beef up the budget for border patrols and the INS). The principal argument of the supporters is an unenthusiastic one: the bill represents the only kind of compromise that can pass Congress. In their view, the alternative is to do nothing and let an intolerable situation get worse.

The entire Time article from 1984 HERE.

The people who actually run Washington were succesful in passing the amnsty in 1986.

NEVER AGAIN.