‘Out of the Shadows’ Explores the Complicated History of the 1986 Amnesty Law That Changed the Lives of Millions

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🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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“Our lives would have been impossible without Ronald Reagan,” says Patty Rodriguez in the opening episode of the podcast series, Out of the Shadows: Children of 86. Rodriguez and co-host Erick Galindo created the series to explore the complicated legacy of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. The act, which provided amnesty and a path to legal status to millions of undocumented residents, came about because of an unlikely ally: then-President Reagan. We’ll talk about the history of the 1986 law, the millions of lives it changed and the families it brought out of the shadows. Guests: Erick Galindo, journalist, writer, podcast creator, television showrunner, producer and co-host, Out of the Shadows: Children of 86 podcast. Ana Raquel Minian Andjel, associate professor of History, Stanford University; author, "Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	For many Mexican and Central Americans here in California,
1:03.0	1986 was the year that their lives and their children's lives changed forever.
1:08.0	That was the year that the Immigration Reform and Control Act passed out of Congress
1:11.9	and was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan. Millions of people who had been undocumented
1:17.0	suddenly found themselves on the path to citizenship, their children would grow up Americans.
1:22.8	And one of those kids, Eric Galindo, co-created a podcast out of the shadows, Children of 86, to explore this
1:29.4	complex act. With Republicans drifting ever further right on immigration, we revisit the mid-1980s
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