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Business Definition for: IRCA
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- Holding Congress accountable: 102 members of the current Congress were in office 20 years ago, and 63 voted for the disastrous IRCA amnesty of 1986. Many are still pushing more amnesty schemes
- Twenty years ago, after years of heated wrangling over immigration, Congress passed--and President Reagan signed--the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 IRCA. The most intensely debated feature of that new legislation was an amnesty for illegal aliens who met various qualifications. At the time, the amnesty advocates in Congress,...
- Research articles 2006-05-15
- WORLD RAILWAY CONGRESS IN LISBON FROM SEPTEMBER 6 TO 10
- The World Railway Congress is to be held in Lisbon from September 6-10, organised by the International Railway Congress Association IRCA and the International Union of Railways UIC. This Congress is held every four years to examine the main innovatThe World Railway Congress is to be held...
- Research articles 1993-07-29
- Learning from history: as Congress seeks a comprehensive immigration fix, the lessons of 1986's historic reform must guide the way.
- AS THE TEMPERATURE SURROUNDING immigration issues rises, let's remember that our political system walked this road 20 years ago during the debate that led to the Immigration Reform and Control Act IRCA of 1986. In its attempt to tackle illegal immigration, Congress struck a deal in...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
- It's back - immigration policy reform
- IT HAS become a recurring nightmare. Every four years or so, Congress finds itself grappling with one of its least favorite issues: immigration. In the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 IRCA, Congress granted amnesty to more than three million illegal aliens and sought to stem the flow...
- Research articles 1994-04-04
- Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Immigration Reform. (book review)
- Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Immigration Reform. By Nicholas Laham. New York: Praeger, 2000. 247 pp. Had the author exercised better judgment before he started out, he might have modified his undertaking. As Nicholas Laham correctly observes, Ronald Reagan never accorded immigration policy...
- Research articles 2002-03-01
- Border enforcement
- Brief History Border control received growing attention in the 1970s after the United States terminated the U.S.-Mexico bracero program and implemented per-country limits on legal immigration. The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act IRCA greatly increased Border Patrol funding. Ten years later, Congress passed the 1996 Illegal Immigration...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
