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Table One
Number of Network News Mexican Immigration Stories Per Year
Juxtaposed with Immigration Legislation and Key Events, 1971-2000*
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Date Year Event
1971 1
1972 None
1973 1
1974 3
INS and Attorney General Saxbe announcements about immigration increases
Supreme Court rules seasonal farm labor with permits no violation of immigration
laws
1975 1
Supreme Court rules Border Patrol can’t search Texas cars without warrant
1976 None Immigation law modified
1977 6
Carter immigration reform proposal
1978 2
1979 None
1980 4
1981 1
1982 1
1983 2
1984 6
Federal judge halts deportation of juvenile undocumented immigrants
1985 1
1986 3
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
1987 2
1988 1
1989 1
1990 1
Immigration Act of 1990
City of Encinitas, CA declares state of emergency due to undocumented
immigrants; sends bill to federal government for immigration costs
1991 1
1992 4
Human rights group charges border patrol with killing, torturing and raping
undocumented immigrants
1993 2
Congress approves immigration bill; sends to President Clinton
1994 4
California Proposition 187; States file lawsuit against federal government for
immigration costs
1995 4
1996 5
1996
Immigration
Reforms
1997 4
U.S. Marine charged with shooting on Texas-Mexico border, Pentagon withdraws
military anti-narcotics forces from border
1998 1
1999 2
2000 3
n=67
*Events were not necessarily covered by broadcast stations.
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