Was Ronald Reagan a democrat?

Republicans would like us to believe that Trump handled himself well during the debate, which is completely a lie.  Trump was sniffling; he had red eyes and couldn't make a single point. He looked like a college student making a speech who had been binge drinking the night before.   Later he said he should have brought up Bill Clinton's affairs (this is from Trump who cheated on every one of his wives).  Trump has given us no plan on how he will deport 11-20 million Mexicans and build this wall.  As we've learned from history, walls don't keep people out.  The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall didn't keep people out.  He was given us no idea on how much it will cost tax payers to implement his plans and no idea on how much it will hurt construction, agriculture and bars and restaurants to have their low line workers deported.  You go to any construction, food company and bars and restaurants and you’ll find all the workers doing the grunt work for very low pay are Mexicans or illegals from somewhere else like Poland in the case of Trump Tower.  Instead of promising to find and deport them, Trump should focus on ways to keep them here and make them legal.  

Ron Reagan was discussing this when he was president.  He said,  “I think the time has come that the United States and our neighbors—particularly our neighbor to the south—should have a better understanding and a better relationship than we've ever had. But I think that we haven't been sensitive enough to our size, and our power," Reagan said.

  

"Rather than 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 here, they pay taxes here?," Reagan said.

When did Republicans start hating Ron Reagan?  Ronald Reagan was for a waiting period to buy guns, and he was an NRA member.  Reagan also supported making Mexicans legal something republicans are against.  I guess either Reagan wasn’t a republican or today’s republicans aren’t what Reagan envisioned the republican party was all about.