Why Does Immigration Reform Legislation Fail?

Article author:

Mark Krikorian and Jerry Krammer

Article publisher:

Center for Immigration Studies

Article date:

Thursday, January 6, 2022

Article category:

National Issues

Medium

Tags:

illegal immigration

national legislation

multiculturalism

Article Body:

Since President Reagan signed into law the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), five presidents have supported legislation containing an amnesty for a large portion of the illegal immigrant population. All of these pieces of legislation traded amnesty for enforcement, except the most recent, the Biden-Menendez immigration bill (U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021). . . .

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