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Since the passage of the 1965 reform of American immigration law, the "newest" immigration has been one of the major concerns of American magazines including Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report. These magazines have published issues covering immigration, and in so doing, projected images of immigration and American identity as the nation of immigrants. Covers on immigration issues in the 1970s projected both affirmative and negative imagery. Some images displayed the virtues of immigrants, while others raised the specter of immigrants or the threat posed by them. A delicate balance between 'immigrants as a threat' and 'immigrants as central to the American identity' was maintained. However, the 1980s witnessed a turn toward a more negative view on immigrants, especially in imagery. The frequency of magazine covers with images of the negative implications of immigration dramatically increased, as the post-1965 debate over immigration culminated in the Immigration and Controlling Act of 1986 and the Immigration Act of 1990. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]