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Archive Home > 2013 > February > 07 > Lessons of 1986 amnesty

Lessons of 1986 amnesty

By Antonio Olivo and John Keilman / The Bulletin
February 7, 2013

CHICAGO _ It was 1986, and Maria Mercedes Reyes remembers the rush of joy she felt as she sat in her Chicago church and learned that President Ronald Reagan had signed into law a historic overhaul of the nation's immigration system.

The law offered a path to U.S. citizenship for the nearly 3....

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