It don't matter how Reagan would feel about it today. Who gives a damn how he would feel. The citizens have had enough of this immigration nightmare. And to prove this, I refer to California Proposition 187. We won the election and the government burned our ballots and declared our election unconstitutional. Why should we care how Reagan would feel? The government don't give a damn how we feel.
Joe the "government" is a direct reflection of the people that vote it into power. The "government" is you and me and liberals and libertarians. The "government" is not the problem the people are the problem. If you want your view to hold sway within the "government" then you must convince enough of your fellow Americans to share that view with you. All of the problems within the "government" are self correcting problems if the folks like us want it. I have never said I wanted illegal immigration but the fact is that we have it and we have it because LOCAL governments and the people within those local jurisdictions like it for purely selfish reasons. When local police departments refuse to aid the Feds in arresting illegal immigrants then the problem is NOT in Washington it is in Houston, New York city, Los Angeles and Tucson. That is just the facts.
Your state and local pols are jobbing you. If the immigrants can't get welfare ... they'll go home if they can't find work.
Try going to Riverside County and getting benefits if you live in Orange. Yet, Riverside County WILL give benefits to people who live legally in Mexico. That's not Bush, that's your California leaders who are chopping you off at the knees.
You guys need a courageous County Attorney who will rule that entitlements are not available for non-residents, contest the inevitable lawsuit, and take it all the way up the channel to the nine vampires in D.C. Demand it. If you have elections in November, run a guy who PROMISES IT. He'll be elected, nobody want's to pay for the housing and schooling of illegally or temporarily resident foreign nationals. NOBODY! That's righteous indignation ... you don't want drifters form San Bernadino County fleecing you either.