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 ‘‘three- 
legged stool’’ approach to immigration reform incor-
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•HRES 326 IH 
porating improved border security and employment en-
forcement, 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 Migra-
tion 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 Per-
sonnel 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 bor-
der, 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 unau-
thorized 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 unauthor-
ized 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 cur-
rently reside in the United States: Now, therefore, be it 
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•HRES 326 IH 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that any immigration reform proposal adopt-
ed by Congress should not legalize, grant amnesty for, or 
confer any other legal status condoning the otherwise un-
lawful entry or presence in the United States of any indi-
vidual. 
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