Doris Meissner, former commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, talked about the creation of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Report Video Issue Javascript must ...

Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986: Was it Successful? 47 Views Program ID: 521556-5 Category: Call-In Format: Call-In Location: C-SPAN Studio, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

Opinion: It is high time for common sense immigration reform which is consistent with the American values as articulated by President Ronald Reagan in 1986.

November 1986. President Ronald Reagan signs the Immigration Reform and Control Act, also known as the 1986 “amnesty,” allowing roughly 2.7 million undocumented immigrants to legalize their ...

The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 legalized individuals who had resided unlawfully in the United States continuously for five years by granting temporary resident status adjustable ...

The specter of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, or IRCA, has haunted every immigration-reform effort over the past few decades and continues to influence the 2013 reform debates ...

Karl Rove's recollection of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act ("Immigration Reform and the Hispanic Vote," op-ed, June 6) is, shall we say, highly selective. That law, he writes ...

In the late 1980s, both became legal residents — and eventually U.S. citizens — after President Ronald Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, the program often cited as ...

It was a different time. Four decades ago, the nation was in the midst of intense debate about growing levels of unauthorized immigrants, estimated at 3 million to 5 million people. Policy ...

An estimated 3 million to 5 million illegal immigrants were living in the United States when the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was passed. Now there are upwards of 11 million.