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When Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, the measure was supposed to resolve the US' illegal immigration problem. It didn't work. In June 2004, Kris Kobach, a law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, authored a paper suggesting that states could help improve national security in the post-9/11 era by enforcing federal immigration laws. The National Conference of State Legislatures found that 41 states enacted 170 immigration-related laws in 2007. When you start having different procedures in different states, it starts to open the door to all kinds of discrimination complaints. Companies want one national system.
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States Not Waiting for U.S. Reform
WHEN CONGRESS passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, the measure was supposed to resolve the nation's illegal immigration problem. It didn't work.
Twenty years later, lawmakers took another crack at the issue....See the full content of this document
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