Anyone subsequently convicted of any crime punishable by a year or more in jail, whether or not the sentence is actually imposed, is then brought before a federal magistrate who has no choice, under the 1996 law, but to order a deportation. INS screws the people. We're the good guys. We only get Manuel Noriega. It sounds so self-serving.
People just lump it all together.
It's just plan wrong. . . . I'm surprised it survived constitutional muster. The Oklahoma City bombing. It's called the antiterrorism law, and they grafted on some of this other stuff. . . . In all the emotional rush to push this thing through, they included some things that were very bad for minority and immigrant communities.