In response to the new waves of immigrants, in 1986 Congress

A) realized that poverty in the immigrants' homelands drove them to flee to the U.S. Congress greatly increased foreign aid and economic development to those countries.
B) insisted that all new immigrants prove they were financially independent.
C) offered amnesty to long-term illegal immigrants and penalized employers who hired illegal immigrants in the future.
D) denied federal benefits to illegal immigrants and their children, even if their children were born in the U.S. and were citizens.


C

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d. workers became another kind of interchangeable part.

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