FLASHBACK: Top Democrats tout deportations, tough immigration policies

[Hazelelponi]

Top Democrats have touted deporting illegal immigrants and taken strong stances against immigrants entering the U.S. illegally for years, proposing harsh penalties and more, while President Donald Trump's current deportation efforts are now being panned by Democrats and members of the press.

Former President Bill Clinton addressed illegal immigration during his State of the Union address in 1995, using the term "illegal alien."

"All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country," Clinton said during the address. "The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use imposes burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens."

He promised to speed up the deportation of illegal immigrants who were arrested for crimes and "to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace."

"We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it," Clinton said.

The immigration policies signed into law by Clinton in 1996 were panned by journalist Aarti Shahani, in a piece for the Atlantic in 2019. Shahani pointed to multiple bills signed by Clinton, including the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRAIRA).

The IIRAIRA allowed for immigrants who also commit misdemeanors to be deported and in general, according to Shahani, "injected" the toughest parts of the U.S. criminal justice system into the immigration system.

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FLASHBACK: Top Democrats tout deportations, tough immigration policies

Top Democrats over the years touted tough policies on immigration, including deportations, as President Trump is criticized from the left over his policies.

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[essentialsaltes]

Obama was the Deporter in Chief. I supported his efforts.

If Trump could just adhere to the law, not separate families, or threaten ridiculous things like a camp of thousands on Gitmo, he'd get a lot less grief from me.

 

[Hazelelponi]

Obama was the Deporter in Chief. I supported his efforts.

If Trump could just adhere to the law, not separate families, or threaten ridiculous things like a camp of thousands on Gitmo, he'd get a lot less grief from me.

Trump IS adhering to the law, and he's using the same border officials used by Obama who already know the landscape. .

Under Obama we didn't have every Latin American and Mexican Cartel and gang member enter the country illegally either, unlike the horror that's been unleashed upon the American citizenry by the Biden-Harris Administration, which we have just unburdened ourselves from.

The people being deported are criminals, exceedingly dangerous ones in most cases so far, pedophiles murders and the like.

GITMO is where the worst of the worst will simply have to be held. They can't be in our jails with our citizens who might have only made a mistake.

Families are not being separated. People might have to wait for DNA proof the child with them is actually their child but that's it, we just aren't giving people children who aren't actually theirs.

^^^ it's important we do this to prevent child trafficking.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Under Obama we didn't have every Latin American and Mexican Cartel and gang member enter the country illegally either

Says who?

The people being deported are criminals,

Not that I've seen.

in most cases so far, pedophiles murders and the like.

I doubt that.