Posted on 06/18/2018 12:13:46 AM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
Both sides of the aisle agree that the current US immigration system is broken. It's why immigration's stayed a hot-button political issue and policy debate, and part of what has made Donald Trump the likely 2016 Republican nominee for president.
But the system hasn't always been broken. Or rather, it hasn't always been broken in this particular way.
Everyone remembers that in 1986, President Ronald Reagan passed an "amnesty" law. But what most people don't know is that in 1996 — fresh off the heels of signing welfare reform, and two years after signing the "crime bill" — President Bill Clinton signed a bill that overhauled immigration enforcement in the US and laid the groundwork for the massive deportation machine that exists today.
Both welfare reform and the crime bills Clinton signed have been relitigated during a contentious Democratic primary, but the 1996 immigration bill — the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act — hasn't.
That's mostly because Democrats have come a long way on the issue since 1996, and advocates have been happy to let them do it without asking too many questions about the past. Only now are some progressive Democrats trying to raise the issue (32 members of the House of Representatives have signed onto a congressional resolution condemning the 1996 law, introduced Thursday by Rep. Raul Grijalva).
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
Good for our side.
Not for the liberals.
Democrats strongly support human trafficking and slavery. Always have.
The media is lying when they say this is Trump’s law, it is not, it is Clinton’s. The media always get’s hoisted on their own lies once the truth catches up to their lies.
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what even fewer remember is Clinton\Gore’s unofficial amnesty program: “Citizenship USA” starting in April 1995. (think:POTUS elections in 1996)
It fast tracked citizenship to those in the pipeline. “fast tracked” means “forget the paperwork and background checks,are you breathing ? you are in.”
https://oig.justice.gov/special/0007/whouse.pdx
change the pdx to pdf to see the report.
also
http://articles.latimes.com/2000/aug/01/news/mn-62556
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