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AP U.S. History 1.1 Period 9: 1980-Present. The success of the Republican Party's fiscal policies in the 1980s and 1990s was accompanied by...what?
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In this AP U.S. History question figure out how immigration laws fundamentally changed in the 1980s. AP U.S. History: Imperialism in 19th Century Drill 1, Problem 1
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All right, first up, the excerpt.
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All right, and now the question:
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Immigration laws fundamentally changed in the 1980s
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because they... what?
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And here are your potential answers.
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All right, what clues can we gather from this passage?
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The term "alien" here refers to, no, not extraterrestrial,
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an undocumented worker in the United States or someone who is
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in the country without proper paperwork.
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And in this excerpt, we see that the Immigration Reform and Control Act,
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or IRCA, granted lawful temporary residence
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if those aliens met certain requirements.
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So let's keep these details in mind as we search for the answer
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best describing the shift in policy at this time.
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Did immigration laws fundamentally change in the 1980s because they A -
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eliminated visa quotas?
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Well, actually, the IRCA didn't change the allocation
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of visa numbers at all, so that eliminates A and B.
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Could these immigration laws have changed by D -
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granting amnesty to all permanent residents?
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Well, we saw in the excerpt that the IRCA did create a path for amnesty,
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but that road was long and winding, containing many stipulations that immigrants
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couldn't meet. So it isn't D, either.
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That means U.S. immigration laws fundamentally changed
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in the 1980s because they C -
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levied penalties against employers of illegal immigrants.
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The sponsors of the IRCA believed they could crack
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down on undocumented workers if they made jobs scarcer for these individuals.
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So under the new law, employers were punished and had to pay
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big fines for employing anyone
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living in the U.S. illegally who was on their
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payroll. So that makes C the right answer.
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And in fact, anyone hired for a job today fills out an I9 form,
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which was created at this time to make sure every employer
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could verify the residency status of his or her employees.
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So remember, if you go in for an interview,
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you better get dressed up to the I9s.
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