How a 1996 US immigration policy changed everything
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Border Security and Asylum
Anything you can identify is a major fact about the immigration system that is broken quote unquote traces back to the debate over the bill. A lot of which weren't even really noticed or really had their consequences realized at the time. It was also the kind of intertwining of local law enforcement with federal immigration enforcement that we think of as a post 9 11 thing, but that actually started with a provision getting written into law in this bill.
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