When president reagan gave citizenship to millions of illegal aliens in 1986 he was exercising the presidential power to grant?

To grant amnesty. President Reagan signed a sweeping immigration reform law, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. It opened the door to the legalization of 3 million indocumented immigrants who had arrived before 1982. Being illegaly in the United States is an offense, so Reagan granted amnesty to those people.

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