Learning from history: as Congress seeks a comprehensive immigration fix, the lessons of 1986's historic reform must guide the way.
American Prospect, The, November, 2005 by Meissner, Doris
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AS THE TEMPERATURE SURROUNDING immigration issues rises, let's remember that our political system walked this road 20 years ago during the debate that led to the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986. In its attempt to tackle illegal immigration, Congress struck a deal in which border control and employer responsibility were combined with amnesty. But the deal disintegrated in practice. Will Congress heed the lessons of IRCA as it revisits immigration reform?
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The core idea of IRCA was that it should be against the law to hire people illegally in the country and that ...
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