Tell me one other President who faced such an immigration crisis in the past 90 years? We ran millions of immigrants through Ellis Island for a reason. Now we ignore the diseases and crimminals and allow them free services and support. The crisis hit on Bush's watch and he's failing to stem the tide nor accept the fact that this is detrimental to this nation.
Immigration in the 80's or 90's could have been considered a crisis, but no one was focused on it because people were fat, dumb and happy. But the same people were coming over here, committing crimes, had diseases, formed gangs, and overtaxed our social services. This didn't happen overnight.
Reagan granted amnesty instead of dealing with the issue of people coming over in the first place.
That's flat-out false. He's the one who brought this issue to the forefront, just like he did with Social Security's woes.