Reagan would have supported McCain on amnesty.
No he wouldn’t have, since he didn’t support his own version of it not long after it passed.
That’s not true.
Reagan didn’t like the amnesty clause in simpson mazzoli, his primary focus was security. He said so in his diaries, he wanted to solve the problem once and for all. Nobody in their right mind would think that amnesty would’ve done that.
“Reagan would have supported McCain on amnesty.”
Reagan was a smart man that learned from mistakes. He was neither an idiot or a treacherous sell-out.
Not true, after Reagan did Amensty he was man enough to say he had made a mistake.
No he wouldn't not the second time around after it failed the first time. He reluctantly went along with it after Congress promised to close the doors with employer sanctions and beefed up border patrol which they reneged on, never closed loopholes and never funded. And there was massive fraud in the applications, something like 30 to 40%.They left Reagan holding the bag on that one. Guess who was instrumental back then too, Ted Kennedy.