According to some former loyal Reagan advisors he considered that a mistake of his administration. Yes he was very pro-immigration but also said a nation without borders isn't a nation.
We've been down the road of amnesty before, it doesn't work and I'm not going to support any candidate like Cannon who wants to take that failed path again.
Oh you must mean pat buchanan, who advised President Reagan to make that disasterous trip to the nazi cemetary in Bitburg.
And then got rlegated to a broom closet office and then fired.
BTW, does anybody know if pat buchanan was in California to write "I'll get you GW Bush and your jewish cronies too" on that boat from Guatemala that came in port in california.
Reagan's history of being pro-immigration goes beyond just the 1986 Amnesty, which was a true amnesty, not this misuse and hijacking of the language you guys refer to as amnesty. Perhaps Reagan thought the 1986 legislation was a mistake since the promised enforcement never came about, (though I never have heard or read anything out of his mouth to that effect) but I have no basis for believing he turned against his decades long beliefs in immigration and guest worker policies.