What Is a Principal Provision of the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli Act

question 15

Multiple Choice

What is a principal provision of the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli Act?

• A)Employers must document the citizenship of their employees.
• B)State and local police must perform roadside immigration checks.
• C)The president must apprehend and deport legal and illegal immigrants if their home country is at war with the United States.-Consider This: In spite of political rhetoric by both the Bush and Obama administrations there has been no comprehensive action on immigration.
• D)A diversity admissions category was created for legal permanent residents.

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Definitions:

Forty Acres and a Mule

A promise made during the Civil War to freed slaves, representing a plan for reparations by granting them land to ensure their independence and viability after emancipation, which was largely unfulfilled.

William Sherman

A Union general during the American Civil War famed for his March to the Sea, significantly impacting the southern Confederate states.

Jim Crow Laws

A set of state and local laws in the United States enacted between the late 19th and early 20th centuries that legalized racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans.

Railroad Companies

Businesses that operate trains for transporting goods and passengers on tracks.