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Many immigrant prison reform advocates believe that failure to fundamentally alter the "crimmigration" laws that have caused the immigrant prison population to mushroom over the past several years means that such announcements by the Obama administration will ring as hollow as President Obama's talk of "racial profiling" did after his administration quietly announced an expansion of 287 (G), one of the largest racial profiling programs in the history of federal government.
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"crimmigration" laws that have caused the immigrant prison population to mushroom over the past several years, means that such announcements by the Obama Administration will ring as hollow as President Obama's talk of "racial profiling" did after his administration quietly announced an expansion of 287 (G), one of the largest racial profiling programs in the history of federal government.
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Two years later, Clinton also signed the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) in the wake of the Oklahoma bombing, which criminalized immigrants, and subsumed immigration law under criminal law, in a process some legal scholars call "crimmigration."
Roberto Lovato: Don't Look to Democrats for Immigrant Rights 2008
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