Time to Repeal the 1996 Immigration Law That No One Is Talking About

FEATURING CARL LIPSCOMBE – It has been twenty years since a major milestone in US immigration law. But few noticed the anniversary. Opal Tometi, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, drew attention in a recent article in Time magazine, to the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act signed by President Bill Clinton. That law, written in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, according to Tometi, “made sweeping changes to allow for deportations to be retroactive and broadened the types of crimes that could result in deportation,” offenses that are “not even classified as crimes on the state level.”

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Carl Lipscombe is the Policy & Legal Manager, Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)