Immigration Law

If you're a legal immigrant in the US, then it plus the welfare reform stuff means that your eligibility for public benefits has basically been cut to nil. The other thing is that it's now much harder to get citizenship or to retain legal status if you have contact with the criminal justice system. There are lots of legal terms of art that are some of which are kind of pre-existing in immigration law but like now get more important because they're expanded. A lot of the times when I think of 1990s, especially criminal justice policy, I think draconian is a very good word to use.