He mentions Reagan's amnesty bills but he still presents the immigration issue as exclusively a Democrat policy. Republicans have been completely supportive of increasingly lax immigration over the past decades, often even leading the way. It was also the first Bush administration that increased the number of legal immigrants allowed in the nation. The only difference was occasionally Republicans would talk tough about "illegal" immigration. The main change that has occurred is not that Republicans have become more restrictionist but that Democrats have become more lax as a reaction to Trump and woke culture.

It is important not to allow the GOP to get away with the perception that they are a restrictionist party.