Trump vs. Reagan and Illegal Immigration

Just a reminder that on Nov. 6, 1986 former President Ronald Reagan, a Democrat who switched to the Republican Party in 1962, signed the disastrous Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.

This “Act” granted millions of illegal immigrants residing mainly in the once red states of California, Colorado and Nevada who crossed into U.S. illegally before Jan. 1, 1982 to apply for legal protective status.

From 1968 to 1988 Nevada was a solid red state but in 1992 that all changed with Nevada flipping blue after all the illegals were granted the Reagan amnesty especially in Clarke County (Las Vegas) until Trump won the state in 2024.

Thus, the facts and the electoral statistics on these states which voted Republican all changed in the 1990s to socialist – Marxist blue after the Reagan illegal immigrant amnesty disaster.

Reagan stipulated these illegal immigrants must pay fines and back taxes and referred to this action as “amnesty,” seriously? They should have all been deported which is the current policy of the Trump administration.

Granted Trump was also a registered Democrat in the past but for economic entrepreneurship reasons to accomplish construction projects in New York not because of a political allegiance to these socialist ideals.

Trump switched between the Democrat, Republican and Independent Parties 5 times to achieve goals for his business acumen.

I sincerely believe that Trump has now permanently settled in as a Republican and his leadership role in this party is helping to expose and hopefully remove the fraud conservatives or retire them like Mitt Romney and the other (Republican in Name Only) RINOs .

Now under Trump, illegal immigrants are not being rewarded for breaking into our country vis-à-vis under Reagan, where over 3 million illegal immigrants were where gifted legal status after paying a very low $185 fine, demonstrated “good moral character” and learned to speak English.

Good moral character should equate to “You don’t break into our republic illegally” right?

So did the Reagan FBI and USCIS vet all these millions of illegal immigrants for criminal records? I don’t think so. Trump is most definitely vetting all people seeking green card legal status in our republic and all Illegals are being deported. As it should be.

So It is no surprise that California flipped to a Socialist blue state in the 1990’s even though a Republican president initiated this egregious act of gifting legal status to illegals inflicting serious harm against our republic.

The illegal immigrant Latino community in California once granted legal status by Reagan strengthened the Democrat socialist agenda and their control of this state.

Once all illegal immigrants are removed from California and ID voter laws are implemented California will no doubt return to a conservative red state.

Reagan did promise tough sanctions against companies who hired illegal immigrants, but he allowed a provision which exempted employers from prosecution if the illegal immigrants got hired with fraudulent documents. Ridiculous right? So illegals remained employed. Nothing changed other than massive gains for the Communist Democrat party.

Thus the illegal immigrants worked and took jobs away from Americans with impunity across our republic and Reagan expanded the massive invasion of our country with his amnesty provision but it went nuclear during the installed Marxist Biden reign of incompetence.

During the eight-year Regan administration the illegal foreign born immigrant population also increased from 14.1 to 19.8 million people.

With that being said It is imperative that birthright citizenship afforded to children of illegals is stopped via the current Trump administration along with chain migration to ensure the United States is for American’s first.

If Trump was President during the Reagan years California and Colorado would no doubt still be republican states.

Unfortunately the infiltration of the GOP by fraud republicans in name only (RINO’s) and the low IQ mentally challenged liberals operating under the table as communists like the California legislature allowing illegal immigrant’s to vote in California in particular have destroyed these once prosperous pro American states. My opinion.

President Trump initiated action that is 50 plus years long overdue to restore and actually implement constitutional congressional immigration laws and remove these criminal cockroaches from our republic.

Even legal permanent residents holding green cards with criminal records must be investigated and their legal status revoked immediately to protect American citizens from these criminals.

Our republic is in good hands and the few Marxist judges trying to block Trumps America First agenda will soon face the consequences of their unconstitutional actions.

©2025 Geoff Ross USN retired Surface Warfare/Air Warfare. All rights reserved.

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