IV 

113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 326 

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that any immigration 

reform proposal adopted by Congress should not legalize, grant amnesty 

for, or confer any other legal status condoning the otherwise unlawful 

entry or presence in the United States of any individual. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

AUGUST 2, 2013 

Mr. BROUN of Georgia submitted the following resolution; which was referred 

to the Committee on the Judiciary 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 

any immigration reform proposal adopted by Congress 

should not legalize, grant amnesty for, or confer any 

other legal status condoning the otherwise unlawful entry 

or presence in the United States of any individual. 

Whereas on November 6, 1986, the Immigration Reform and 

Control Act (IRCA) of 1986 was signed into law; 

Whereas between 1987 and 1988, nearly 2,700,000 illegal 

immigrants received legal status under the 1986 IRCA 

amnesty before being granted lawful permanent residence 

by 1992; 

Whereas IRCA was touted by its sponsors as the ‘‘threelegged stool’’ approach to immigration reform incorVerDate Mar 15 2010 00:33 Aug 03, 2013 Jkt 029200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\HR326.IH HR326

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porating improved border security and employment enforcement, a H–2A temporary worker program, and legal 

status for certain eligible groups; 

Whereas IRCA contained provisions to inhibit future illegal 

immigration by penalizing employers who knowingly hire 

an unauthorized immigrant; 

Whereas despite these penalties, a policy brief by the Migration Policy Institute dated August 2005 showed that over 

90 percent of unauthorized males in the United States 

were employed; 

Whereas IRCA included language to increase Border Personnel by 50 percent; 

Whereas then-Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) 

Commissioner Alan C. Nelson announced the law’s initial 

success in a 1989 House Judiciary Committee hearing, 

citing the shrinking number of apprehensions at the border, as signal ‘‘to demonstrate that the law is working 

and employer sanctions are having the intended effect of 

reducing illegal immigration’’; 

Whereas illegal immigration actually increased in volume and 

frequency by 1989, with 1,700,000 to 2,500,000 unauthorized immigrants crossing into the United States from 

Mexico that year; 

Whereas the number of illegal aliens grew to 3,400,000 by 

the early 1990s, and by 1997 the approximate unauthorized population totaled more than 5,000,000, the same 

number of illegal immigrants as before the 1986 law took 

effect; and 

Whereas an estimated 11,500,000 million illegal aliens currently reside in the United States: Now, therefore, be it 


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1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep2 resentatives that any immigration reform proposal adopt3 ed by Congress should not legalize, grant amnesty for, or 

4 confer any other legal status condoning the otherwise un5 lawful entry or presence in the United States of any indi6 vidual. 

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