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Explain The Five Major Immigration Laws

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Throughout the years there were five major immigrations laws that were passed, these five laws were the Immigration Reform and Control Act, Immigration ACT of 1990, Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, Legal Immigration Family Equity and LIFE act Amendments of 2000, and the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors. First off, the Immigration Reform and Control Act has put an employer sanctions program into act and thus stating that hiring undocumented workers will be given penalties, this law enables the people to acquire a job without the fear of illegal immigrants taking their job The Immigration ACT of 1990 is an act as to where the country raised the amount of visas given to a person, this affects us by allowing more immigrants to com the the U.S. The IIRAIRA ACT of 1996 states that immigrants that are caught without the …show more content…

Bush and Barack Obama sent a large amount of National Guard troops to the border and still eleven million illegal immigrants are living in country and seems to be growing rapidly. The purpose for the national guard troops is to better protect the border and prevent illegal crossing. The use of the 1,954 mile fence is useless if not properly watched and protected and that's where they come in, to better monitor the fence and prevent the crossers from damaging the fence. Some of the illegal immigrants do not come to California in search for new job opportunities but to smuggle drugs across the border, document fraud, human trafficking, and other criminal activities The use of the national guard is to not only protect the border but stop criminal activities from happening and entering the country. It may increase in violence but it will decrease in criminal activity and stop those who are coming into California illegally through the southern border. Other than the national guard and border patrol protecting the border, there are groups of civilians that volunteer to protect the border as

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