re: #133 ObserverArt

And that battle has gone on for how many Presidents now?

Wasn’t “W” Bush closest to getting something together and he didn’t get any support from his party?

Yep. Dubya’s reforms program was basically classed as DOA in Congress: like most plans - for decades - it foundered on (basically bullshit) arguments, and served only to perpetuate the status quo. Which, since the status quo was fundamentally economically profitable to many sectors of the economy, and politically profitable (as a rallying point on one side or another) as well, was likely to stay in place, “reform” efforts notwithstanding.

Until Trump came along and changed the rules of the game: figuring (and, disgracefully for this country, correctly) that more political mileage could be gotten simply demonizing and - rhetorically and literally - abusing “illegals” - and by extension, any non-white would-be immigrant.