[nopardons]

Without any teeth to that bit about employers and with NO follow ups and with NO fence and no extra guards at the border.

Lots of people have put Reagan on a pedestal and then either completely ignored every single fact, or they've never known any actual facts about what his presidency was like.

Don't get me wrong...I worked VERY hard to get him elected, think that he was a GREAT president, but I remember what actually DID happen.

[Reagan Man]

>>>> Lots of people have put Reagan on a pedestal .... but I remember what actually DID happen.

You're a provocateur and the biggest Reagan revisionist on Free Republic. No one is putting Reagan on any pedestal. Reagan just happens to be one of the greatest Presidents in US history, and the greatest POTUS of the 20th century. You keep attempting to undermine and denigrate the Reagan legacy because you're an old sourpuss and you hate conservatives.

[Vinny]

What we know of Ronald Reagan is that he had to compromise with a Democratic Congress in order to build up the military, fight the Commies around the world, and win the Cold War, as well as deregulate, cut taxes, and turn the economy around.

I believe that this was the best Reagan could do on immigration under the circumstances and Bush 1 never followed through on this or built upon it, Clinton wouldn't and either is Bush 2.

I find it hard to believe that Reagan didn't care about illegal immigration. It's up to the presidents that are elected afterwards to make sure the laws of the land are executed.

I do know that Bush 1 didn't enforce these laws, Clinton wouldn't, and Bush 2 isn't.


Ronald Reagan couldn't do everything in 8 years.