Leftist talking points on the president's amnesty plan include the curious notion that both President Reagan and President H.W. Bush also used "deferred prosection" to amnesty illegal aliens Writing in National Review, Mark Krikorian demolishes that ridiculous argument: It’s interesting that the anti-borders crowd seems to have conceded the point I made in August that most past executive grants of status to illegal aliens were the consequence of foreign crises in the illegals’ home countries and thus not relevant to the current discussion. These were, as Ross Douthat’s trenchant column pointed out Sunday, “modest, clearly defined populations facing some obvious impediment (war, persecution, natural disaster) to returning home.” So the fallback position of those claiming precedent is to grasp at two actions taken by Reagan and the elder Bush that came in the wake of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)...(Read Full Post)