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Vice.Com on Ongoing Effects of IIRIRA and AEDPA

By immigrationprof

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In, “How a Clinton-Era Law is Still Criminalizing Immigrants Today,” Vice.Com shares stories of individuals detained and deported – and families separated – as a result of the 1996 laws the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) and Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA).  Numerous immigrations scholars have critiqued these two laws since they went into effect, and the individual stories continue to be powerful.

-JKoh