Perhaps recalling how her husband Ronald Reagan signed sweeping immigration into law that led to amnesty for nearly 3 million immigrants, many Latinos everywhere are still mourning the recent death of former first lady Nancy Reagan.

While the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act legislation was billed as a crackdown on immigration, it offered amnesty to those who had entered the country before 1982.

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"It's not perfect," former Wyoming Senator Alan K. Simpson said of the now 30-year-old legislation. "But 2.9 million people came forward. If you can bring one person out of an exploited relationship, that's good enough for me."

Latinos remain grateful. And many of them fondly remember Nancy Reagan. She is widely credited with being the president's biggest confidante and his conscious on many social issues.

With the likes of 2016 Republican front-runner Donald Trump now calling for the mass deportations of all 11 immigrants estimated to be residing in the U.S., her death is seen by many as the final link between pro-immigration conservatism and the Republican Party.

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More recently, fellow GOP candidates Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have joined Trump in calling for such deportations, openly feuding on just which of them is more against the idea of immigration reform.

Still, many lawmakers have brushed all aside to simply pay homage to the former First Lady and all she seemed to stand for.

In a post to Facebook, Republican U.S. Representative Carlos Curbelo of Florida reflected on how much she did to help children everywhere to save children from the scrouge of drug abuse with her "Just Say No" campaign.

Indeed, the salutes have continued to pour in, with Republican U.S. Representative Mario Diaz-Balart adding in a Twitter post:

Diaz-Balart later retweeted a Twitter post from Republican House majority leader Paul Ryan where he shared flags are now flying at half-staff outside the U.S. Capitol Building in her honor.

Nancy Reagan passed away at her Los Angeles home earlier this month, reportedly of congestive heart failure. She was 94. The former first lady was slated to be buried alongside her husband.

Born Anne Frances Robbins in New York City on July 6, 1921, in her official White Biography she is quoted as reflecting, "My life really began when I married my husband.

"They had a codependent marriage that became a codependent presidency," CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said of their time in the White House, which commenced after he was elected in 1981. Brinkley further described the first lady as a great judge of character who, first and foremost, had her husband's best interest at heart.

"If she thought somebody didn't have her husband's interest in mind, she nixed them," he said. "You can't overestimate how important she was for the Reagan revolution and Reagan's eight years in the White House."

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