ABSTRACT
This chapter has four main purposes. First, the applicability of the model of language fluency, developed and tested largely for the large, random samples of immigrant populations in census data, is examined for a random sample of illegal aliens who attained “temporary legal status” under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.4 The data are from the Legalized Population Survey (LPS) conducted in 1989. These immigrants are less educated than the
had been in an illegal status, and are more likely to be from Spanish-speaking countries than immigrants in general.
