THE EXCLUSION OF ILLEGAL HISPANICS IN AGENDA-SETTING: THE IMMIGRATION REFORM AND CONTROL ACT OF 1986 |
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| Authors: | William Arp III |
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| Institution: | an assistant professor of Political Science at Louisiana State University specializing in policy and minority populations. His teaching and research interests include American political institutions, evaluation of government public policy, and the sociology of law. His disser- tation was entitled "The Failure of IRCA to Achieve its Goals: Legalization, Policy, Process, and Minority Participation." |
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| Abstract: | In November of 1986, the Immigration Reform and Control Act, designed primarily to control illegal Hispanic residents was signed into law. The new policy as implemented failed to remove, via legalization, illegal residents residing within the United States. The perspectives of Hispanic organiza- tions and 594 illegal residents were collected and evaluated to ascertain those variables that may have served to negate this public policy. The utilization of a subsequent qualitative and discriminant analysis indicated that the exclusion and/or lack of consideration given the perspectives of policy targeted groups and individuals in agenda setting, adversely affected the efficacy of the policy-making process, and thus, the laws it creates. |
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