1986 Redux: Proposed Senate Immigration Reform Repeats Past Failure


 

Publication Date: May 2007

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): James Jay Carafano

Research Area: Population and demographics

Keywords: Immigration; Senate; enforcement

Type: Brief

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The 1986 bill granted amnesty, then tried to enforce the law, and created a poor alternative to undocumented labor. It failed. The current bill follows exactly the same strategy.