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Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
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Blocking Reform of Legal Immigration Blocking Reform of Legal Immigration
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Amnesty and the Rights of Temporary Workers Amnesty and the Rights of Temporary Workers
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Immigration Act of 1990 Immigration Act of 1990
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The Proimmigration Coalition The Proimmigration Coalition
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Accommodating Labor Accommodating Labor
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Interest-Group Politics Interest-Group Politics
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A Model of Voting: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 A Model of Voting: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
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Votes Analyzed Votes Analyzed
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The Model of Individual Floor Votes The Model of Individual Floor Votes
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Independent Variables and Expectations Independent Variables and Expectations
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Results of the Analysis Results of the Analysis
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A Model of Voting: The Immigration Act of 1990 A Model of Voting: The Immigration Act of 1990
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Votes Analyzed Votes Analyzed
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Results of the Analysis Results of the Analysis
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Summary Summary
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5 Legal and Illegal Immigration Reform
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Published:March 2006
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Abstract
This chapter first examines the legislative strategies employed by ethnic rights groups and other interest groups to obtain their favored policy in contests over legal- and illegal-immigration reform during the 1980s. Two specific legislative cases are analyzed: passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986; and passage of the Immigration Act of 1990. The second part of the chapter tests several hypotheses for predicting a legislator's vote on immigration issues by characteristics of the legislator's constituents and district. Controlling for the lawmaker's party membership and ideology, the most consistent predictor of a House member's vote on immigration policy, is the size of foreign-born or ethnic populations in his or her district. With few exceptions, the larger those populations, the more likely lawmakers are to respond to them.
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