BACKGROUND NOISE: Essentially all neurosurgeons are spine surgeons. Our initiation into spine surgery begins at the very start of our residency, is at the very core of what we do throughout training, and remains the most common thing we do through our careers. It's been like that for most of a century.
When President Carter granted amnesty to draft evaders he was using his judicial power.
But even setting that aside it left President Reagan with a moral dilemma. Congressâ amnesty was largeâjust shy of 3 million peopleâand it had the unanticipated effect of splitting up freshly-legalized parents from their illegally-present minor children who did not qualify for relief.