How Bill Clinton Paved the Way for Donald Trump’s Racist and Audacious Deportation Agenda

This article provides historical background for immigrations issues and demonstrates that it has been the official policy of the US to marginalize immigrants going way back to the first New Democrat, Bill Clinton, (and beyond.) Together with mean spirited welfare reform, jump starting privatization and the prison industrial complex, skyrocketing incarceration rates and escalating the war on drugs, Clinton rewrote the book on depriving immigrants civil rights to due process.  That is the same playbook we have today.  Trump has simply declined to put a happy face on it while Clinton would smooth talk  and smile winningly and while screwing immigrants.  To be certain Donald added a spike in hate crime to the stew which make our self righteous liberal blood boil, but this harm pales by comparison to the oppression and institutional violence of  our long established right wing immigration policy.  It needs to change.


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