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Passed the House on October 3, 1990 ( unanimous consent in lieu of H.R. 4300, passed 231–192) Reported by the joint conference committee on October 26, 1990; agreed to by the Senate on October 26, 1990 ( 89–8) and by the House on October 27, 1990 ( 264–118) Signed into law by President George H. W. Bush on November 29, 1990. The ...
- An Act to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to change the level, and preference system for admission, of immigrants to the United States, and to provide for administrative naturalization, and for other purposes.
- 8 U.S.C.: Aliens and Nationality
The Immigration Act of 1990 helped permit the entry of 20 million people over the next two decades, the largest number recorded in any 20 year period since the nation’s founding. The Act also provided Temporary Protected Status so that asylum seekers could remain in the United States until conditions in their homelands improved.
Apr 28, 2016 · What '90s immigration reform did: made more people deportable and fewer people legalizable. There was no single provision of the 1996 law that was as dramatic as the 1986 "amnesty" law, signed by...
ago, in November 1990, when Congress enacted the Immigration Act of 1990. In signing the bill, President George H.W. Bush called it the most comprehensive revision to U.S. immigra-tion law in 66 years.1 This issue brief addresses what the 1990 Act did and did not accom-plish.
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Treats as unfair immigration-related employment discrimination practices: (1) requiring more or different documentary evidence of identity and work eligibility than that required by law; and (2) refusing to honor identity or work eligibility documents that reasonably appear genuine on their face.
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to change the level, and preference system for admission, of immigrants to the United States, and to provide for administrative naturalization, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] (Introduced 02/07/1989) Committees: Senate - Judiciary | House - Judiciary. Committee Reports: S.Rept 101-55; H.Rept 101-955. Latest Action: 11/29/1990 Became Public Law No: 101-649 .
