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When Americans turned on their TVs in the early 1990s, one contentious issue was hard
to miss: immigration.
Is immigration good for America?
The federal government won't stop them at the border.
You spend $5.5 billion a year to support them.
There’s a right way. And there’s a wrong way.
At the time, there were around 5 million undocumented immigrants in the US.
And most Americans saw immigrants as a burden on the country,
taking jobs, housing and healthcare,
and thought immigration as a whole should be decreased.
Our country is invaded by immigrants who are like cancer cells.
That same year, Republicans ran on a tough-on-immigration platform
and took control of Congress.
Democrats were pushed to adopt tough positions on immigration, too.
We are a nation of immigrants.
But we are also a nation of laws.
In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed a major piece of legislation:
the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act,
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