Six years after the enactment of the Refugee Act of 1980, the United States Congress enacted the Immigration Reform and Control Act Immigration Act of 1986 (IRCA), in November 1986, with the goal of controlling and deterring illegal immigration into the United States. The main provisions required; a) the legalization of foreign citizens who have been continuously illegally present in our country since 1982. b) Called for the creation of a mechanism to protect and enforce the borders of the United States. c) The legal compliance of some agricultural workers and sanctions on companies that intentionally or knowingly hire illegal foreign workers. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) made several contributions to solving the immigration problem in the United States, in addition to substantial contributions to legalize over 3 million foreign citizens. First, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), strongly supported comprehensive immigration legislation that benefited a group of illegal immigrants, who had been continuously in the United States for a period of four years in scope of a special program for agricultural workers, a group of national Cubans who fled their country after the 1959 Cuban revolution. Additionally, foreign immigrants who arrived before January 1, 1972 and the group of Haitians who for different situations arrived on the coasts of the United States. Critics of IRCA argue that despite this considerable legalization of illegal immigrants, the program has failed to discourage illegal immigration into the country and instead of decreasing, aliens living in America illegally have increased by more than 4 million in the period since 1986 to 1990. Reform of the United States' legal immigration system under IRCA demonstrated that immigration... middle of paper... was in 1986. Twenty-seven years ago, the United States Congress debated how better protect America's borders, enforce our workplace immigration laws, and legalize millions of illegal immigrants living and working in this country. Today the debates remain the same. Simpson and Mazzoli, authors of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), argue that twenty-seven years after the implementation of IRCA, the issues continue to be the same: controlling illegal entry, what to do with illegal immigrants existing and guest programs for workers. The new legislative proposals aim to achieve three objectives: a) limit illegal immigration. 2) Provide personnel for labor-scarce markets and 3) empower undocumented citizens to obtain legal status. These expectations remain the same as immigration continues to be an important issue. With all these changes