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Clinton-Era Immigration Laws Blamed for Enabling Trump Agenda
Original: Clinton-Era Laws Passed 30 Years Ago Enabled Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda. Here’s How We Turn the Page.
Commentators are arguing that immigration laws passed in the mid-1990s under President Bill Clinton laid the groundwork for the Trump administration's hardline immigration policies. The piece contends that decades-old enforcement frameworks gave later administrations broad tools for detention and deportation, and calls for repealing or reforming those statutes to change the course of US immigration policy.
Why now: Renewed debate over immigration policy in the Trump era is prompting fresh scrutiny of the laws' origins.
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