From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Michelle Cordero, and this is Heritage Explains.

The Biden administration, in coordination with members of Congress, have unveiled a new immigration

reform proposal containing the largest mass amnesty in American history.

And if that wasn't bad enough, this all comes at a time when Americans are struggling to

keep businesses open and regain a public health footing from the ongoing effects of COVID-19.

The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 would erase the line between legal and illegal immigration.

It offers an eight-year path to citizenship for millions of people living in the U.S. illegally

as of January 1st, 2021.

This clear reward for breaking the law has caravans from Central America on the move,

one of which has already made it to Mexico.

We have seen it time and time again.

Amnesty only brings more illegal immigration.

Today, we're going to take a trip down memory lane, explaining amnesty bills of the past,

why they didn't work, even according to liberals,

and why they won't work now.

Side note, this explainer is from 2018, and it's every bit as relevant today.

It's like deja vu all over again.

Here's David and Sarah, a former policy expert in Heritage's Douglas and

Sarah Allison Center for National Security and Foreign Policy.

One of the biggest pieces of legislation dealing with immigration was the 1986

Immigration Reform and Control Act, also known as IRCA, is passing to Ronald Reagan,

but it's also sometimes known as Simpson-Mazzoli after the members of Congress who led the way to it passing.

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