amnesty

While immigration agents staged highly publicized raids during the 1980s, Democrats and Republicans worked on an amnesty that President Reagan signed into law in 1986.

In several posts, Mr Musk mentions a 1986 bill which granted amnesty to approximately three million undocumented immigrants in the US.

Friedman said she supports a path to citizenship for some immigrants living and working in the U.S. without documentation, akin to the amnesty that President Reagan signed into law in 1986.

“It was not a border bill. It was an amnesty bill ... ,” he said at a news conference in Manhattan.

Even with the ban coming into force and the recent amnesty, he says it is often too hard for some people “to do the right thing”.