Friday A/V Club: What GOP Immigration Politics Used to Sound Like

From April 23, 1980, here’s Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush
discussing illegal immigration at a debate before the Texas
presidential primary:

The full debate can be seen here.
The sentence that gets cut off at the end of the above clip is
“This is the only safety valve right now they have, with that
unemployment, that probably keeps the lid from blowing off down
there.”

My own ideal immigration reform would look something like

this
.

(For past editions of the Friday A/V Club, go here. For another
memorable moment from the 1980 campaign, go
here
.)

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