Annotations for Dates: 1986

A bill to provide funds to help those who became citizens under IRCA, the Immigration Reform Act of 1986, has been introduced by Congressman Luis Gutierrez of Illinois. The bill would provide money for citizenship and English classes for millions of immigrants who became eligible later this month.

Immigration rights groups in California have filed suit against the Immigration and Naturalization Service. They claim the 1986 immigration reform law have kept many families apart. They say INS regulations have put children of amnestied individuals in danger of being deported, in denial of the family unity protection clause of the immigration law. You're listening to Latino USA.

NAFTA is kind of going to be the icing on the cake to a trade program with Mexico that we kind of started in 1985 or 86. We've seen exports from the United States to Mexico increase from eight to 10 billion a year, clear up to 40 billion since 1985. NAFTA's going to make it possible for, mostly for the United States to sell our products down there. Plus there's a lot of products, Mexican manufactured products coming up from Mexico City, Guadalajara, and the west coast of Mexico that are coming into the LA area either for consumption in LA or for shipment to the Orient.