Former United States President Bill Clinton asserted that the legislation strengthened “the rule of law by cracking down on illegal immigration at the border, in the workplace, and in the criminal justice system—without punishing those living in the United States legally”. However, IIRAIRA has been criticized as overly punitive and intensifying border militarization. With IIRAIRA, all aliens, regardless of legal status, were liable to removal and it expanded types of transgressions that could lead to removal.
Hardly a secret that the 80s/90s was the peak of “Both Sides” politics, given that both parties seemed to be marching in lockstep to send the whole country over a cliff.
I doubt Clinton wrote it. Why would he need to when Congress had an army of lobbyists to write it for them?
Please vote R to support Bernie
I mean, you say this, but if the hard left turn in NYC is any indication, it really does seem to help the Socialist cause when you’ve got fascists running things. Neoliberals like Clinton, Obama, and Biden can tread water for a minute and keep the lights on. But it takes a failson reactionary like Bush or Trump to really fuck up the imperial core hard enough to spur a revolution.
40 Senate Democrats and 97 House Democrats seemed happy enough to put their signatures on it.
Unironically.
Hardly a secret that the 80s/90s was the peak of “Both Sides” politics, given that both parties seemed to be marching in lockstep to send the whole country over a cliff.
Yes, agreed, they are the same.
Don’t pretend that Clinton didn’t write this behind closed doors with his billionaire buddies and blue maga.
it is all meant to harm true progressives.
Please vote R to support Bernie and the real progressives.
It is the only way to stop the wrong kind of dummyrats and get the right dummyrats as kings!
I doubt Clinton wrote it. Why would he need to when Congress had an army of lobbyists to write it for them?
I mean, you say this, but if the hard left turn in NYC is any indication, it really does seem to help the Socialist cause when you’ve got fascists running things. Neoliberals like Clinton, Obama, and Biden can tread water for a minute and keep the lights on. But it takes a failson reactionary like Bush or Trump to really fuck up the imperial core hard enough to spur a revolution.
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*Rhodes, you dunce.