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Hosts Patty Rodriguez and Erick Galindo reflect on their lives as children of immigrants. They realize that a pivotal moment in their parents and their lives was in fact the signing of IRCA in 1986. That moment defined our generation.

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Hosts Patty Rodriguez and Erick Galindo's families were just some of the millions who migrated to the United States during the great migration, a period of circular movement across the border fueled by the Bracero program and shaped by America's wars.

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The bill that would be IRCA is proposed by a priest but the bill dies almost immediately setting up a battle between a no-nonsense senator named Alan Simpson and most of Congress. Meanwhile, ICE-style raids haunt immigrant communities. 

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On the eve of IRCA's historic signing, "President Ronald Reagan" reflects on his legacy.

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A 10-year-old girl pens a letter to the president pleading for amnesty.

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Now that IRCA is the law of the land, immigrants scramble to prove they qualify for amnesty.

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Central American refugees paid the price for Reagan's Latin American proxy wars.

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