I would add to your list of Reagan "sins"...his signing of the first amnesty legislation...if only because it set the precedent for what Bush is being blamed for right now...
BUT, I hope realize, because Sean obviously doesn't, that President Bush never TRIED to be Reagan, he never claimed to be Reagan..and he didn't even try to run as a "Reagan conservative"...
He ran as a "compassionate conservative"...and I think that is what he has done, and is doing....
So...for anyone to get mad about it...needs to get over it.
In retrospect, Reagan was great intentioned with the amnesty, but what he should have done was recognized how bad INS (now BICE) is as an agency and abolished and reform it. If we could get rid of the deadwood in that agency, we might make progress at getting LEGAL immigration to work, so there was no need for illegal immigration.