Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When president Clinton signed the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IRAIRA) last September, the public debate about immigration had reached an apex; even defenders of unlimited legal immigration recognized the need to change how the U.S. government deals with the issue...
...includes such information as changes in a student's financial aid situation or enrollment status, students' level of health insurance and exact legal status as non-residents, according to HIO Associate Director Sharon Ladd...
...agency responsible for immigration matters, the INS has come under intense scrutiny. Congressional critics say the agency is not prepared to handle increasing waves of immigrants, both legal and undocumented...
Under the panel's plan, the State Department would handle all aspects of legal immigration and would administer the citizenship process. The Justice Department would assume direct responsibility for dealing with illegal immigrants and border control, as well as CIPRIS...
Twenty-three years later, Whitehead, now a born-again Christian, has some follow-up questions for Clinton. They have to do with Paula Jones. The Rutherford Institute, a legal-advocacy group he founded to fight discrimination against religious believers, has taken up Jones and her claim that Clinton made a crude sexual advance toward her six years ago, when he was Arkansas Governor. When Jones' team of lawyers recently quit after she rejected a settlement offered by the President's attorneys, it was Whitehead's group that hooked Jones up with her present attorney. And thanks mainly to Rutherford...