Event list

1986- Immigration Reform and Control Act creates an amnesty progrma for undocumented immigrants and installs employer sanctions; Jhon Waihee becomes Hawaiis governor and is the first Hawaiian to be elected to that office.

1987- Navroze mody killed in jersey city, new Jerseyl constitutional convention for a hawaiian nation meets and drafts a constitution

1988- civil right act, offering redress and reparations to Japances americans, passed by congress and signed by president ronald reagan; Hirabayashi vs, U.S

1989- Jim Loo killed in Raleigh, north carolina; massacre of asian american schoolchildren in stockton, california, by a gunman who killed five and wounded twenty; china's government suppresses student uprising at Tiananmen Square; Communist governments collapse throughtout eastern Europe.

1990- Murder of Hung Truong in Houston, Texas; bombing of Kaho's olawe suspsended.

1992- LAriots in which Korean american businesses in particular were targeted results in osses of exccedin g$350 million

1993- U.S congress passes a joint resolution, signed by president Bill clinton, apologizing for ameircan roles in the 1893 overthrow of queen Lili uokalani

1994- California passes proposition 187, which denies rights and government services to undocummented immigrnat.

1996- llegal immigration reform and immigrant responsibility act curtails the rights of undocumented immigrants to receive federal enlightment, limits due porcess for political asylum applicatns and increases enforcement of immigration laws: CA passes proposition 209, which eliminates governmental affimative action progrmas

1999- FBI areests Chinese american scientist Wen Ho Lee and charges him with mishandgling resticted nuclear data at the Los Alamos National Labortatory.

2000- U.S Justice and interior departments releases a draft report recommending sovereignty for hawaiians, resident Bill Clinton signs executive order 13125 establishing the president's commission on asian americnas and pacific islanders to improve the quality of life for thoses groups; federal government drops fify-eight of fifty nine charges against we ho lee, who pleads quilty to a single charge of mishandling nuclear secrets and judge james a parker apologizes to lee for the unfair manner in which he was held.