How a 1996 US immigration policy changed everything
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The 94 Midterms Were a Cataclysmic for Clinton
In 1996, President Clinton signed a bill that would have deported millions of illegal immigrants. Julian Zelizer: It's important to remember how radically to the right things were then. He says there was concern about like we're still in a post-Willie Horton kind of media world. Zelizer: Republicans can use their traditional concerns about welfare to also hit Democrats on immigration.
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