Sep 15, 2003 ... In 1986, the United States enacted the world's largest legalization program for  unauthorized foreigners and introduced sanctions on employers who ... During its  first hundred years, the United States had a laissez-faire or open borders policy  that allowed immigrants into the United States without restriction.
The 1965 amendments were intended to purge immigration law of its racist  legacy by replacing the old quotas with a new system that allocated residence  visas ... Although the amendments may have opened the door to greater  immigration from Asia, however, the surge in immigration from Latin America  occurred in spite of ...
Jun 26, 2013 ... The consensus among decent people in favor of the immigration bill making its  way through Congress is so firm that expressing dissent feels a bit like ... I also  realized that only a wall (and I didn't much like walls) prevented millions of  people on the People's Republic of China side of the border from coming ...
Feb 3, 2013 ... Demetrios Papademetriou of the Migration Policy Institute talks about the lessons  learned from the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. ... WOULD COME --  SENATOR SIMPSON DID NOT WANT THE BILL THAT WOULD COME OUT OF  COMMITTEE. OUR BORDERS ARE OUT OF CONTROL.
Nov 12, 2015 ... The Gang of Eight bill provides a picture of where Rubio would like to take the  U.S. immigration system. ... the ones who remembered the debacle of the 1986  immigration deal, in which legalization of illegal immigrants came first but  promised border security measures never happened — were stunned.
The Senate immigration bill "has immediate legalization ... and the border security is sometime in the future, and just like in 1986, it's designed never to come into being."