The Lion's Pride Volume 11 (Winter 2019) | Page 41

coming in because of the new laws, it is hard to find people to work on
farms and cultivate food. Immigrations also “raise questions on human
rights to the government” and, because of it, the government is divided.
The negative things of immigration are not having enough
housing/accommodations because of cities growing.
Immigrants are certain people who come from their countries to the
United States to search for or rebuild their lives. To make this happen,
these people needed to follow rules, a type of law that the country he or
she is entering must follow. Many laws passed since the beginning, like
the Naturalization Act of 1790, which required “immigrants to live in
the U.S. for two years … respective state of residence for one year prior
to applying for citizenship” (“The History of U.S. Immigration Laws”,
2018). Many other laws have been approved in the past, though there are
two most important ones that have changed the States in some way. The
first is the Illegal Immigrant Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act,
also known as the IIRIRA, accepted by President Bill Clinton in 1996.
This act changed laws on immigration and did many other things, like
tightening the “Attorney General’s authority”, “deported aliens (a citizen
from a country or state other than the U.S.) who were falsely [claimed to
be] U.S. citizens.” The second important act is the Nicaragua
Adjustment and Central America Relief Act, also known as the
NACARA, passed by President Clinton in 1998. This act made it
possible for certain “Nicaraguans, Cubans, Salvadorans” and people