It is not OK. The Rats would have blocked all of his anti Soviet stuff had he NOT passed amnesty, though.
So let me get this straight. Reagan had to compromise on some issues to win a war that had to be won. Yet Bush, faced with a weak Senate struggling with only a five seat Republican majority must toe the line on every issue, WOT be damned. Reagan can "sell out the country on immigration", but Bush needs to build a wall and deport every illegal tomorrow "if he wants the conservative base to vote for him". Again, I say...wow.