Schumer played a big part in the 86 IRCA reform. He was a Rep in the house at the time and he formed what was then called "The Schumer Compromise" to help get that legislation passed.

If the schmuck was an honest man he'd admit that the 86 reform would have worked just fine if Congress hadn't sat on it's hands as so many places around the nation declared "SANCTUARY". He should have been the first to rail against then Mayor Koch who declared sanctuary here in NYC in 88 barely a year and a half after IRCA was passed.