CHICAGO (WLS) -- To end the chaos going on with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Alderman Ray Lopez says it's time for President Donald Trump to take a page out of Republican President Ronald Reagan's immigration playbook and offer amnesty.

Francisco Ortega lived in Chicago without legal papers for 11 years before President Reagan in 1986 gave the Mexican immigrant and millions of others the opportunity of a lifetime: United States citizenship.

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"Since then, I've been having a good, good life here. I work for long time, and now I'm retired. But still, my family is in good, good condition. They don't have no problems or any kind," Ortega said.

Citizenship allowed Ortega and his family to not only work, but get educations a

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