BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Visitor Center: Ronald Reagan’s 1986 Immigration Act

DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Visitor Center: Ronald Reagan’s 1986 Immigration Act:

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Description of Pictures: originALs: Ronald Reagan’s 1986 Immigration Act
On view through December 2016
President Lincoln’s Cottage and the National Archives are proud to collaborate in the first-ever public display of the Immigration Reform and Control Act signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in November 1986. The original Immigration Act, from the National Archives, will be on display at President Lincoln’s Cottage beginning on June 1, 2016 and will be on loan through December 1, 2016.
During its stay at President Lincoln’s Cottage, the Reagan Act will reside next to President Lincoln’s Cottage’s special exhibit, American by Belief, a groundbreaking exhibit which presents American immigration policy during the Lincoln era as well as contemporary stories from recent immigrants to the United States.

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1. LINCIA_160607_03.JPG: Immigration Reform and Control Act, November 6, 1986, National Archives, Washington, DC Abraham Lincoln's presidential legacy is most clearly tied to his leadership in the Civil War and role in ending legal slavery. His tremendous impact on America's immigration policy is less well known. On July 4, 1864 -- the same day Lincoln moved to the Cottage for his final season in residence -- he signed into law An Act to Encourage Immigration, the first comprehensive immigration law in American history and the nation's only law to encourage immigration. Over 120 years after President Abraham Lincoln signed into law An Act to Encourage Immigration, President Ronald Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act on November 6, 1986. Reagan's Act controlled and deterred illegal immigration to the United States. It included four main provisions: legalization of undocumented aliens who had been living in the United States since 1982, legalization of specific agricultural workers, sanctions for employers who knowingly hired undocumented workers, and greater enforcement at US borders. Considered by many the most comprehensive immigration reform in recent history, some critics believe it did not provide enough avenues for legal immigration. President Lincoln envisioned the United States as a global beacon for freedom and opportunity and believed immigration should be encouraged and protected. President Reagan later echoed this vision by declaring America a shining city on a hill. In the decades between Lincoln and Reagan, immigration in America evolved, and continues to do so today. Yet, Lincoln's vision of the nation as a beacon of hope has remained.
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2016 photos: Seven relatively short trips this year: two Civil War Trust conference (Gettysburg, PA and West Point, NY, with a side-trip to New York City), my 11th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including sites in Utah, Nevada, and California), a quick trip to Michigan for Uncle Wayne's funeral, two additional trips to New York City, and a Civil Rights site trip to Alabama during the November elections. Being in places where people died to preserve the rights of minority voters made the Trumputin election even more depressing. Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Number of photos taken this year: just over 610,000.
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