What happened to the undocumented immigrants who got amnesty?
About 3 million people applied for amnesty and nearly 2.7 million were approved. About 1.7 million applied through the program for rooted undocumented immigrants who entered before 1982, and about 1.3 million applied through the program for agriculture workers, far more than the 250,000 expected. Many ineligible people gained amnesty through forged documents and other fraud, sometimes aided by unscrupulous employers. Back to the future What is the government doing now to solve illegal immigration? The Department of Homeland Security in September awarded a $67 million contract to Boeing Co. to begin building the first phase of a “virtual fence” in southern Arizona made up of high-tech surveillance towers. The system eventually could stretch along the entire U.S. border with Mexico and Canada and cost $2 billion. The House and Senate also passed a bill that sanctions the building of 700 miles of double fencing along U.S.-Mexico border. The two sides have been gridlocked since the spring
