 passed by a bunch of conservatives in Congress who themselves ended up getting so shocked by how many people were rounded up that they wound up appealing to immigration authorities and asking them to moderate the very law that they had passed. Wow. There were these legal bars that the law created that said that if you had crossed the border unlawfully and or if you had overstayed a visa or if at any point your legal status had lapsed, you would be barred from the United States for either five or ten years.