President Donald Trump could learn a lot about how to treat immigrants from Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, two of his predecessors and icons of the Republican Party. So could Republicans who like to invoke Reagan's name to convince constituents they're bonafide conservatives.
Trump, in a move supported by Oklahoma's attorney general, Gentner Drummond , is attempting to kill a sensible program that gives in-state tuition to undocumented students if they graduate from a state high school, meet admission standards and have demonstrated they are following the established process to become citizens.
But in 1980 at a debate in Houston , both former presidents supported allowing immigrants to attend school and work in the United States.
Reagan said: "Why don't we ... make it possibl