What Ronald Reagan actually said about border security -- according to history, not President Trump

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Source: Washington Post

What Ronald Reagan actually said about border security — according to history, not President Trump

By Katie Mettler
December 24 at 12:17 PM

The year was 1980, the location was Houston and the question came from the crowd at a presidential primary debate between Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush — two bellwether conservatives who would eventually serve together as president and vice president.

Should “illegal aliens,” the crowd member asked, be allowed to attend U.S. public schools?

Bush said immigration policy needed to be “sensitive” and “understanding” toward the “really honorable, decent, family-loving people” that had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without documentation.

Reagan echoed that sentiment.

“Rather than talking about putting up a fence, why don’t we work out some recognition of our mutual problems, make it possible for them to come here legally with a work permit,” he said. “And then while they’re working and earning here, they pay taxes here. And when they want to go back they can go back.”

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1. He found another way, by comparison,

to make Reagan and Bush Sr sound reasonable and thoughtful

I feel safe in calling him the 100th worst President in US history. It'll take at least another 250 years to get someone this awful again