A disingenuous argument
Bob Battani’s warning (Telegraph, Oct. 3) that we will all pay if Trump deports 11 million illegal immigrants is disingenuous. In 1942, FDR reached an agreement with Mexico to supply labor for ag purposes during WWII. It was called the Bracero program, and it worked well. It was undone in 1964 by congressional Democrats who killed the program at the behest of the AFL-CIO. Seems Braceros didn’t pay union dues, but farm workers under Caesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers union would pay dues.
I would also remind Mr. Battani that in 1986 Reagan gave amnesty to almost 3 million illegals in return for a secure southern border. The Democrat Congress never held up their end of the deal.
– Dennis Pierce, Durango