More than 1 million farmworkers applied for legalization under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.

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Pete Wilson helped push the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which legalized more than 3 million illegal immigrants.

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President Reagan granted amnesty to illegal immigrants when he signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 that affected mostly Latino immigrants living in the United States since 1982.

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On a later trip, U.S. Border Patrol Agents caught and returned him to Mexico but he later succeeded in entering the United States and benefitted from the aftermath of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, signed by President Ronald Reagan, which gave legal status to many undocumented immigrants.

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