Comment by tayo42
3 months ago
Did reagan do anything good in hindsight? Everytime I hear about him he seems like the worst president until trump came along
3 months ago
Did reagan do anything good in hindsight? Everytime I hear about him he seems like the worst president until trump came along
He pushed for and signed this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Reform_and_Control...
which was a substantial improvement for millions of people. It's worth pointing out that the one (and probably only) good thing I can think of that Reagan did would get him tossed out of today's republican party.
The idea back then was a one-time amnesty in exchange for a secure border, which didn't happen.
That's why Republicans are unwilling to budge a second time.
The idea was actually that employers would start to bear some responsibility for knowingly hiring illegal immigrants and thus creating an economic incentive for the migration.
That didn't really happen. You see plenty of roundups of illegal immigrants, many/most are employed. What you don't see ever are roundups of their employers.
If you want to actually see this problem solved immediately all you need to do is show a daily perp walk of the employers on the evening news for a few months.
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Who ran ICE for the next 6 years?
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Nominated the first female to the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O'Connor, and using his bully pulpit to pressure the Soviet Union about East Germany and the eventual dissolution of the USSR.
The challenger/teacher in space thing was under his watch. It was a great idea. It just got screwed by NASA failures.
Also, his handling of the disaster was pretty good.
Depends, were you rich in the 80’s? If so he was amazing at making you even richer.
He became very popular to hate on in the past midterms because his position that "government IS the problem" is more popular than ever given the last administration. It was a vain effort to preempt what they knew was coming.
Seriously, why else would the name of a president who hasn't served in 40 years suddenly be brought up all the time?