David North, one of the co-authors of the definitive evaluation of the amnesty portion of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), and now a senior fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, has written a new preface to that 1989 report now available online. He predicts massive fraud in the Obama executive amnesty program.
“…while there was extensive fraud in the IRCA program, steps were taken to detect it, steps I doubt will be taken in the next amnesty. A key variable is the presence of an initial face-to-face interview between the illegal alien applicant and a federal official; something included in the IRCA program, but not in the ongoing DACA program (Delayed Action for Childhood Arrivals), which will probably set a precedent for the next amnesty.”
“Unfortunately a lot of time has passed and few of the INS people who struggled with the IRCA amnesty are still working for the government. Since that is the case, I fear that the lessons of the IRCA experience are not likely to shape the next amnesty, which will be run by ideologues whose focus will be solely on rights of the aliens, and not on the broader needs of society.”
Read more here: http://www.cis.org/1989-IRCA-Report-Legalization-Program
Posted 3/10/15 by Andrew Lewis