Via LC & IB Bill Quick, we’re led to this excellent column and this beautiful excerpt:

As we watch the tragicomedy in the U.S. Senate on immigration reform, it behooves us to hark back to the last time the Senate debated major immigration reform. It was in 1985.

Why does it behoove us to learn this history? Because the promises being made today are exactly the same promises made back then. The bill that the Senate produced in 1985, which became law in 1986, was ambitiously titled the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA). It is probably the most fraudulent legislation in American history, for it neither reformed nor controlled immigration. In fact, it actually exacerbated illegal immigration and, in many ways, directly led to today’s immigration crisis.

That they managed to screw us so utterly back then was because we didn’t know any better.

We do now.

At least those of us blessed with intelligence, memory, pride and principles.

Cheap political whores need not apply.

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