Immigration Reform and Perishable Crop Agriculture?: Compliance or Circumvention

This comprises the first nationwide study of the effects of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) on agriculture. This benchmark study provides both case studies and surveys to explain the major reason why IRCA was a case of good intentions gone awry. The authors of this report are, in the case of Monica Heppel, working as Director for the Commission on Agricultural Workers established by the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, and in the case of Sandra Amendola, working as an anthropologist monitoring the State Legalization Impact Assistance Grants (SLIAG) Program established through the IRCA.