After the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620, ships of people kept coming from Europe. As a result of this uncontrolled influx, the region’s native tribes voted unanimously to pass the Immigration Control Act of 1632. As we know, it didn’t work.

Fast-forward 354 years and the tribal council known as the U.S. Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. That one didn’t work either.

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