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Act of congress that amended the Immigration and Nationality Act
Two Republican-sponsored 1996 laws signed by President Bill Clinton — the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRAIRA) and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (A...
Immigration advocates’ core due process objections after the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) centered on —notably restrictions on bond hearings, limits on judicial...
IIRIRA sharply expanded enforcement tools against undocumented residents: it created expedited removal and reinstatement procedures allowing summary deportations without judicial hearings, expanded ca...
INA §287 is a cluster of statutory provisions in the Immigration and Nationality Act that define the substantive powers of immigration officers—ranging from interrogation, arrest, warrantless stops ne...
Undocumented immigrants who overstayed a visa face civil immigration penalties (removal, bars to reentry) and are routinely subject to administrative enforcement, but being an overstay alone has not h...
Expedited removal is a streamlined statutory process that lets DHS officers summarily order certain arriving or recently arrived noncitizens removed without a full hearing before an immigration judge,...
The Clinton administration pursued a suite of enforcement-first policies and laws in the mid-1990s that materially expanded the federal deportation apparatus: increased funding and personnel for borde...
The key distinction is that the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) of 1996 codified a set of —including detention, expedited removal, and expanded deportability—while...
The analyses portray the 1996 IIRIRA as a turning point that expanded detention, criminalization, and enforcement without solving irregular migration, while the Trump Administration (2021–2025) is dep...