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Immigration Control Act Of 1986 Essay

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The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986 was signed in to law by President Ronald Reagan November 6, 1986. This act was passed to help regulate the number of illegal immigrants coming into the United States. The requirements of the act are to impose legalization of non-documented aliens that had been entering the United States illegally since 1982. Along with this it also set forth requirements for the legalization of farm workers, and had restrictions for companies that knowingly hired an illegal alien and raised awareness at all U.S. borders. The United States Department of Labor states;
That under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 “employers may hire only persons who may legally work in the U.S., i.e., citizens …show more content…

On November 20, 2014 President Barrack Obama announced that he wanted to grant deportation relief to half of the illegal immigrants within the United States. This has been a hold due to a lawsuit that was filed trying to prevent it. This executive action by Obama was the first of its kind since 1986 when just fewer than 3 million illegal immigrants were allowed to obtain a green card. Illegal immigrants make up approximately three and a half percent of the United States population. This is down from 2007 where it was at four percent. Hispanics make up around half of the illegal immigrants that are in the United States, in 2012 there were almost six million Hispanics living within the United States illegally. This was down from almost six and a half million three years prior. “California, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey and Illinois alone account for sixty percent of the illegal immigrant in the United States” (Krogstad & Passel). In 2012 a little over five percent of the labor force was illegal immigrants in the United States. This made for over eight million illegal immigrants that held jobs or was looking for work in the U.S. According to Pew

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