Maybe you were to busy complaining about your childhood to notice that this plan DID NOT WORK.
Reagan claimed it as a mistake.
But you forgot to mention why Reagan said it was a mistake....
In the Simpson-Mazzoli Act. Ronald Reagan, in his diary, says he signed it,.... we were supposed to have 300,000 people get amnesty..... There were 3m. But he signed it because we were going to get two things in return.... We were going to get control of the border and we were going to get a guest worker program with employer enforcement. “We got neither.....The Democrats did not keep their end of the bargains.