Hello there. I'm Chuck Todd and welcome to another episode of Meet the Press Reports. This

is the program where we spend a half an hour taking a deep dive into a single issue.

In fact, this is the second of our two-part series on immigration and the border. We're

sure you just saw the first one. So now you can see this one. Today we're going to focus

on the Republican Party's evolution on this issue. We're going to start with one of the

last things we heard in the White House from President Ronald Reagan in 1989 who was

expanding on the shining city upon a hill vision that he used frequently throughout his

presidents. A city with pre-ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there

had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will

and the heart to get here. As President Reagan signed the Immigration

Reform and Control Act of 1986. The act increased border security. It penalized businesses which

knowingly hired unauthorized immigrants. And it also extended temporary legal status and

a pathway to citizenship to millions. These days it's been shorthanded to simply

Reagan signing a bill for Amnesty. But three decades later Republican President Donald

Trump was promising to build a wall between the United States and Mexico. Folks, this transition

did not happen overnight. Over time views that were once on the fringe came to have more

and more influence over the party's agenda, including at the state level. It started

with the California Republican governor who needed to win reelection. It was Pete Wilson's

Prop 187. It was designed to deny basic education and health services to undocumented

immigrants. But as I said, it was also designed to help them win reelection. At the federal

level with Republican lawmakers scuttling efforts at a Grand Bargain in President Bush's

second term. You'll see the gang of eight effort under President Obama in 2013 and 2014

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