[Churchillspirit]

You are correct about Reagan’s amnesty...never did understand that.

[skeeter]

Reagan signed Simpson Mazolli into law for the same reason he signed the TEFRA tax increases - he was promised something solid in exchange for his compromise.

Reagan was supposed to finally obtain real border security in exchange for amnesty for 1.5 milion illegal aliens.

The democrats accepted the amnesty but renegged on the border security part, just like they accepted the 1 dollar in tax increases but renegged on the 3 dollars in specnding cuts which was their part of the TEFRA bargain.

Reagan's ONLY flaw was he trusted democrats to behave honorably. They are scum and need to be squashed like bugs.