Do you think that sending Cubans who have risked their lives paddling to Miami to escape a communist regime is equivalent to people flooding a border crossing without so much as a word being spoken to them?
What!!!! You sure don't know you recent history. President Ronald Reagan supported what was known as the Simpson-Mazzoli bill. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (its official title) was passed by Congress on November November 6, 1986, and President Reagan signed it into law. The chief provision of this Act was to grant the first, and so far only, genuine amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants, the overwhelming majority of whom were Mexicans.
People on the Right tend to bitch and moan about President George W. Bush simply because he supported legislation THAT NEVER PASSED. President Reagan, on the other hand, did sign an amnesty bill. It was the reason illegal immigration exploded in the 1990's into the early 2000's. The 1986 Act set the precedent upon which present day supporters of another amnesty take their stand.