Doris Meissner, former commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, talked about the creation of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.

Doris Meissner, former commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, talked about the successes and challenges of the act.

The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 mandates that employers verify that the people they hire to work in ...

Rather than deporting millions of migrants, this Republican president opted for the opposite strategy—legalizing them.

The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 legalized individuals who had resided unlawfully in the United States continuously for five years by granting temporary resident status adjustable to ...

November 1986 President Ronald Reagan signs the Immigration Reform and Control Act, also known as the 1986 “amnesty,” allowing roughly 2.7 million undocumented immigrants to legalize their status.

In the late 1980s, both became legal residents — and eventually U.S. citizens — after President Ronald Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, the program often cited as ...

The specter of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, or IRCA, has haunted every immigration-reform effort over the past few decades and continues to influence the 2013 reform debates.

Karl Rove's recollection of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act ("Immigration Reform and the Hispanic Vote," op-ed, June 6) is, shall we say, highly selective.

After signing the Immigration Reform and Control Act, President Ronald Reagan said, it “will go far to improve the lives of a class of individuals who now must hide in the shadows, without ...