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Home Tips > Tips By Category > Tips you can implement daily Sen. Edward Kennedy's first major legislative victory helped change the face of the country and shaped his own political career.
In 1965, Kennedy had been in the Senate less than three years. His party's leaders gave him the job of pushing a bill to eliminate the quota system that had made it virtually impossible for anyone from anywhere but western Europe to immigrate to the USA.
Among the immigration measures that Kennedy helped shape:
A 1980 bill that established a system for refugee resettlement in the USA and nearly tripled the number of people who would qualify for admission.
A 1986 bill that granted amnesty to an estimated 2.7 million people living illegally in the USA and established penalties against employers who hired illegal immigrants.
A 1990 bill that revised the legal immigration system to allow for more immigrants and more high-skilled workers.
For all of his accomplishments, Sharry thinks Kennedy will be best known for the work he did with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on a bill that failed.
The legislation would have put an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship and plugged holes in the employer sanctions system.
It collapsed despite its powerful backers, including President Bush
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