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The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA or the Simpson–Mazzoli Act) was passed by the 99th United States Congress and signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on November 6, 1986. The Immigration Reform and Control Act legalized most undocumented immigrants who had arrived in the country prior to January 1, 1984.
House agreed to Senate amendment on June 27, 1984 (agreed unanimous consent) Signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on July 17, 1984 The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 ( 23 U.S.C. § 158 ) was passed by the United States Congress and was later signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on July 17, 1984.
Ronald Wilson Reagan [a] (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Republican Party and became an important figure in the American conservative movement. His presidency is known as the Reagan era.
Ronald Reagan's tenure as the 40th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1981, and ended on January 20, 1989. Reagan, a Republican from California, took office following his landslide victory over Democrat incumbent president Jimmy Carter and independent congressman John B. Anderson in the 1980 presidential election.
In the 1980s, the leader of the Republican Party, President Ronald Reagan, was famously enthusiastic about the importance of immigration to American success. He was fond of saying that “[a]nyone ...
Reagan served as President during the last part of the Cold War, an era of escalating ideological disagreements and preparations for war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Reagan in 1982 denounced the enemy as an "evil empire" that would be consigned to the "ash heap of history" and he later predicted that communism would collapse. [6]
Perhaps no day in Reagan’s presidency better embodied his policy transformations or the political ambitions of the Heritage Foundation than Aug. 13, 1981, when Reagan signed his first budget.
[6] [16] [17] Real GDP growth recovered throughout Reagan's term, averaging +3.5% per year, with a high of +7.3% in 1984. [18] The average annual GDP growth during Reagan's presidency was the fifth highest since the Great Depression and the highest of any Republican president.