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Schumer working on immigration reform -- again
When President Ronald Reagan signed the historic but ultimately ineffective 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, one lawmaker he thanked by name was Chuck Schumer.
A little-known Democratic congressman from Brooklyn, Schumer had brokered the key compromise on agricultural workers that revived a bill pronounced dead and led to the passage of the first major immigration overhaul in decades....
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