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Originally Posted by miami_fan
I don’t have surveys. I do have a brief history of U.S. immigration policy ironically from the Cato Institute which tells us a bit of what actions we have taken and why. Very little if anything in the country’s immigration debate is new. Check out the section about The Bracero Program.
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Thanks, I read the Bracero section which dealt with illegal immigration from Mexico. Similar struggles back then in illegals in the US.
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If there is a lack of desire for (illegal) immigration among the voting public, and based on that lack of desire or based on their own personal lack of desire, lawmakers creates laws which restricts immigration to the U.S. , yes legal immigration under those laws are guaranteed to be accepted more than illegal immigration. That is one of the purposes of immigration laws. To allow more (certain?) people in when desire is high and allow less people in when desire is low.
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Personally, this is what I was coming from.
So from your Bracero article, I'm thinking your point is reception/treatment of illegals have been the same in the past and now? I certainly don't dispute that.
I am saying its important to make a distinction between legal and illegal immigration because one is more significantly accepted than the other which, in theory, translates to the media, public awareness, and politics.