re: #191 Justanotherhuman

“Robinson says Reagan’s own diaries show the president found the idea of a militantly staffed border fence difficult to take. In a private meeting with then-President Jose Lopez Portillo of Mexico in 1979, Reagan wrote that he hoped to discuss how the United States and Mexico could make the border “something other than the location for a fence.”

The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 included a number of specific measures for enhanced border security. Congress simply didn’t fund them and Reagan didn’t hold its feet to the fire to do so.