Amnesty for undocumented immigrants worked in 1986

Nearly 3 million immigrants got amnesty under former US President Ronald Reagan. It had certain requirements. Among them, people had to prove they weren’t guilty of a crime and had lived in the US for at least five years. Some of the immigrants granted amnesty still work on farms in Washington state. Eilís O’Neill reports from KUOW in Seattle. 

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