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Article: Recent laws bring wave of newcomers // Policy of reuniting families shapes decade-long influx
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 8, 1996
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WASHINGTON More than 12 million immigrants have been admitted to
the United States or come here illegally since Congress passed a
groundbreaking immigration reform law in 1986 - the most in any
decade in the nation's history.
The Immigration Reform and Control Act began a decade of
lawmaking that has influenced who may immigrate to the United States.
But it has not slowed the arrival of newcomers, according to a
Gannett News Service computer analysis of Immigration and
Naturalization Service records.
More than two-thirds of immigrants coming to America over the
past 10 years were women under 30 or children; more than 70 percent
were unskilled or had less than a high school education, ...