Central American Asylum Seekers: Impact of 1996 Immigration Law. Updated November211 21, 1997. CRS Report for Congress

摘要

In enacting the Illegal Immigrant Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act211u001e(IIRIRA) of 1996 (Division C of P.L. 104-208), Congress rewrote provisions in the 211u001eImmigration and Nationality Act (INA) that pertain to the circumstances under 211u001ewhich certain aliens subject to expulsion from the United States may be permitted 211u001eto stay here as legal residents. How aliens are affected by these statutory 211u001echanges is being played out most vividly in the cases of Central Americans who 211u001efirst came to seek asylum the United States in the 1980s. For the most part,