The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, known as IRCA, is related to racialized sentiments. According to Golash-Boza, the discussions of implementing the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 raised racialized sentiments about Mexicans. Mexicans were thought to be a threat as they were seen as “taking jobs from Americans, overusing welfare, and refusing to assimilate” although that was opposite of what was actually happening (Golash-Boza 374). The time when Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 was being discussed was the time when the economy was bad and so blame went to Latin Americans, whom at the time were moving to the United States in a great number while “[generating] waves of nativism and anti-immigrant sentiment”
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Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo stated that the debates over the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 had three main points to discuss, which were allegations of Mexicans taking jobs from the Americans, questions of Mexicans abusing the American taxpayer’s money, and concerns of assimilation. The main reform and control that IRCA effected were legalizations of undocumented and imposition of sanctions on employers who employed undocumented workers. Consequently, IRCA was successful in making temporary Mexican workers to become permanent residents of the United States. Not only IRCA helped undocumented workers to stay in the United States legally but also helped them to bring their family members to the United States under family reunification provisions. Although IRCA may have been successful in what it was attempted to do, it raised concerns of racialized immigrants. However, I think it was very foreseeable that racialized sentiments would grow and appear as the visibility of Mexican immigrants dramatically …show more content…
This law, along with the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, “eliminated judicial review of some deportation orders, required mandatory detention for many non-citizens, and introduced the potential for the use of secret evidence in certain cases,” and eventually started to executing deportation of legal permanent residents (Golash-Boza 377). Deportation of permanent residents were made possible under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 if residents were convicted of “aggregated felonies.” This basically meant that if someone either shoplifted or possessed small amount of drugs, their judicial rights were taken away from them that they would not be granted with a judge for deportation. However, there were much more meaning to this than just what it seemed. Legal permanent residents who were “charged at any time during his or her stay in the United States” possible subjects of deportation (Golash-Boza 377). What shocked me the most was that the law is not considering the fact of when the green card holders came to the United States. Even if legal permanent residents grew up in the United States in their whole life from a baby, they could become potential target of deportation. Because this means that a person who is basically an American could be deported to another country solely because
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo stated that the debates over the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 had three main points to discuss, which were allegations of Mexicans taking jobs from the Americans, questions of Mexicans abusing the American taxpayer’s money, and concerns of assimilation. The main reform and control that IRCA effected were legalizations of undocumented and imposition of sanctions on employers who employed undocumented workers. Consequently, IRCA was successful in making temporary Mexican workers to become permanent residents of the United States. Not only IRCA helped undocumented workers to stay in the United States legally but also helped them to bring their family members to the United States under family reunification provisions. Although IRCA may have been successful in what it was attempted to do, it raised concerns of racialized immigrants. However, I think it was very foreseeable that racialized sentiments would grow and appear as the visibility of Mexican immigrants dramatically …show more content…
This law, along with the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, “eliminated judicial review of some deportation orders, required mandatory detention for many non-citizens, and introduced the potential for the use of secret evidence in certain cases,” and eventually started to executing deportation of legal permanent residents (Golash-Boza 377). Deportation of permanent residents were made possible under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 if residents were convicted of “aggregated felonies.” This basically meant that if someone either shoplifted or possessed small amount of drugs, their judicial rights were taken away from them that they would not be granted with a judge for deportation. However, there were much more meaning to this than just what it seemed. Legal permanent residents who were “charged at any time during his or her stay in the United States” possible subjects of deportation (Golash-Boza 377). What shocked me the most was that the law is not considering the fact of when the green card holders came to the United States. Even if legal permanent residents grew up in the United States in their whole life from a baby, they could become potential target of deportation. Because this means that a person who is basically an American could be deported to another country solely because