Bill Clinton on "Illegal Aliens" (1995 State of the Union address): Calls for deportation and barring illegals from welfare benefits

[mountaineer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3yesvvYEvs

All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected, but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.

In the budget I will present to you we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.

We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.

[mountaineer]

We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws.

And he's still a member in good standing of the Democrat party! I think we need to post this on every Dem congresscritters' Twitter feed.

[truth_seeker]

This video has been shared on Facebook, a lot.

There is not really a need to comment. It speaks for itself; namely the policies Trump ran on are NOT out of the mainstream.