In response to the resurgence of national anti-immigration sentiment, a slew of legislation came after the end of the bracero program in attempts to hinder the path to citizenship, and the simplest way was to target immigration through deportation, incarceration, and extended detention (Duignan, et. al, “Immigrants and America”). Efforts began with President Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which restricted immigration quotas. Its subsequent extension, the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, increased border control and mounted the penalties for hiring undocumented aliens. The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act was one of the most aggressive anti-immigration efforts, adding 5,000
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2006). As a result, stricter acts passed, like the Secure Border Initiative (2005), Operation Jump Start (2006), and most controversially, Arizona’s Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act of 2010, recorded by David Savage’s “Supreme Court Rejects Most of Immigration Law.” Through his account, he goes on to say that the law in its entirety would have created more deportation opportunities, but in Arizona vs. United States, the Supreme Court validated the police’s power to check the immigration status of suspected individuals at lawful traffic stops, but invalidated their right to arrest immigrants who weren’t in possession of their legal papers when stopped (Savage, “Supreme Court Rejects Most of Immigration Law”).
In the past years, the Obama administration has been making an effort to ease naturalization for illegal immigrants. In 2012, President Obama authorized an end to the deportation of those who entered illegally as children and two years later, he attempted to pass a plan to keep almost five million undocumented aliens in the U.S. without fear of
2006). As a result, stricter acts passed, like the Secure Border Initiative (2005), Operation Jump Start (2006), and most controversially, Arizona’s Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act of 2010, recorded by David Savage’s “Supreme Court Rejects Most of Immigration Law.” Through his account, he goes on to say that the law in its entirety would have created more deportation opportunities, but in Arizona vs. United States, the Supreme Court validated the police’s power to check the immigration status of suspected individuals at lawful traffic stops, but invalidated their right to arrest immigrants who weren’t in possession of their legal papers when stopped (Savage, “Supreme Court Rejects Most of Immigration Law”).
In the past years, the Obama administration has been making an effort to ease naturalization for illegal immigrants. In 2012, President Obama authorized an end to the deportation of those who entered illegally as children and two years later, he attempted to pass a plan to keep almost five million undocumented aliens in the U.S. without fear of