Ronald Reagan: “The administration supports enactment of H.R. 2309.”

It was a message of peace.

Rather than making them or 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, and then, while they’re working and earning…

The objective of the United States remains, as always, a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.

I think he recognizes that their massive buildup has been responsible for the great economic crisis that he faces there in the Soviet Union.