Amnesty advocates hoped to legalize 35 million illegal migrants when they pushed the Senate’s 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill, according to one of the campaign organizers.
The advocates’ amnesty goal was far larger than the media-magnified claims that the so-called “Gang of Eight” amnesty would benefit roughly 11 million illegals.
The revelation was buried in a July 16 Politico article, titled “How Trump and Republicans ‘won the war’ on immigration.”
“Before [in 2013] we were talking about a pathway to citizenship for 35 million people,” said Felipe Benitez, a Latino political strategist and immigration advocate. “Now we’re barely figuring out if we can get 500,000 spouses of U.S. citizens protected status.”
