US Immigration Policy: How The Hart-Cellar Act & The Immigration Reform And Control Act Illustrate How Good Intentions Can Have Unintended Consequences
This paper discusses and examines two important pieces of legislation in the last fifty years that deal with the immigration policy of the United States. Through examining the manifest and latent intentions of both the Hart-Cellar Act (1965) and the Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986), this paper considers some of the more important and unintended demographic changes the acts wrought in the US.