- The high-level details include protections for 2 million Dreamers, new resources to speed processing asylum seekers, and fast removal of migrants who don’t qualify, according to Sargent.
- If that sounds familiar it is because the GOP fell for that same line in 1986. Republican President Ronald Reagan signed amnesty into law, allowing millions of rulebreakers to stay in the country. A secure border never came.
- Nearly 40 years later, it would appear that Republicans still have not learned their lesson.
