RR got my support primarily for his strong anti-abortion and anti-communism stances. He made the US respected around the world again.
Amnesty not so much. As I recall there was strong opposition even then to what was really Chucky Schumer’s scheme. That said RR went along but with the promise that future illegal immigration would be stopped and the borders secured. Neither has happened and there’s no reason to believe that under Bush’s amnesty or Gingrich’s amnesty it would either. Just more of the same until the borders are erased completely.
Watching the fall of our Republic.