BULLoney! This is getting tiresome listening to historic revisionism from you know nothings.
First off, Reagan didn't support open borders. Reagan said: "A nation without borders is not a nation." Reagan did sign into law the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 that gave 2.6 million illegals amnesty. It specified tough employer sanctions, prosecution and punishment for employers who hired illegals. If that law was enforced, the IRCA of 1986 would have turned out to be what it was meant to be, a one time amnesty deal. Instead, the Feds lack of enforcement led to a ongoing series of liberal immigration policies under Bush41, Clinton and Bush43, that has led to the 10-15 million illegals we have living in the US today. With 3-5 milion entering the US illegally since Dubya became POTUS.
I dont think GW has been that busy since he became Pres...You should invite him to a come to the border and stop a couple of million from crossing
I respectfully disagree. Even if enforcement had been improved, we still would have had a lot more illegals, because the IRCA failed a basic provision of conservatism - namely, that if the government rewards illegal behavior, the country tends to get more of it. Sure enough, those who have come here illegally since IRCA are now close to being rewarded for their illegal behavior, showing they ain't stupid. Criminal, but not stupid.
And true to form, the Senate "compromise" managed to come up with a formula that rewarded those who had been breaking the law for the longest time. Only in Washington...