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The dramatic rapprochement with Communist China occurred under Richard Nixon's administration and was successful largely due to the former strident anti-communist stand taken by that administration. Congress was won over in part by the Nixon Administration given their strong anti-communist credentials and thus strong credentials with the Republican hawks in Congress.

Likewise, the Regan Administration was successful with its rapprochement with the Communist Soviet Union, in part for the same reasons and was successful in their negotiations with Gorbachev in the tearing down of the Berlin Wall.

President Donald Trump, with his bombastic and strident anti-immigrant stance toward our nation's former immigration policies, appears similarly well positioned to advance a long stalled comprehensive immigration reform bill aimed at dealing with the estimated 11-plus million undocumented immigrants living amongst us in our nation. He has obviously established his creds with the hawks on immigration policy and as such would appear to be the most likely to succeed with advancing a resolution to this long simmering and polarizing immigration stalemate that has paralyzed the lives of most of these undocumented immigrants and their families.

The absence of a comprehensive immigration reform policy has likewise created severe uncertainty among the wide array of businesses that employ large numbers of undocumented immigrants such as our construction industry, our wide ranging agriculture industry and service industries. We all can agree that the current system is broken, but now appears to be the best time for advancing a resolution that could pass both branches of Congress, if not too draconian. It would be encouraging if our two local congressmen, Morgan Griffith and Bob Goodlatte could get behind such a timely effort.

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