Reagan trusted the democrats to hold up their end of the deal - put teeth in border enforcement and no more amnesties.
Trusting democrats to be as good as their word turned out to be a major mistake.
Reagan wouldn’t try to feed us the 12 million line knowing full well that it was 30 million or more and he sure as heck wouldn’t tell us that dumping them on our failing economy was the cure for all that ails us.