Immigration Policies And Immigrant Rights
There have been several amendments in the immigration policies of the US since its inception. In the mid 1970s Simpson-Mazzoli Bill was introduced in the legislation aimed at immigrants who were entering the country without documents or illegally. |
After sixteen years of reiterated efforts, in the year 1986, the Immigration Reform and Control Act finally eased the employer permits, which was a part of the federal law. The people in United States were confused on the policies made for immigrants and were unaware of the national policies towards the immigrants who were undocumented.
The policy was officially accepted and codified for special category of people in the US who have fewer rights when compared to the citizens in the country, who were not allowed to work legally or were not entitled for social benefits, people who can be detained, enslaved and expelled at any point of time. When the special category got introduced, there were wide spread ramifications across the country. Soon the wage levels and weakness of immigrants were influenced by the creation of special category. The other rights were also influenced like the medical care and right to education for immigrants and their children.
The immigrants without documents were not supposed to work or earn their livelihood, and the basic rights being a human being were denied the basic necessities of life with isolation from the communities and society. The undocumented immigrants were supposed to be dehumanizing and demonizing the US culture and political life.
The Immigration Reform and Control Act was followed for several years and several anti-immigrant bills were introduced, in which California State Legislature was the first and then it was followed by other state legislatures. The proposition 187 was passed in the year 1994 by the California voters that denied the illegal immigrants from basic medical and education rights. The same proposition was then followed by the other states in America.
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