I believe that in 1996, President Clinton knew if the lurid details of the Monica Lewinsky affair were made public, his bid for reelection would be jeopardized — and little did he know that a letter dropped on his desk would change all of that.
Father Miguel Vega, a member of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), a group founded by Saul Alinsky, urged Clinton’s Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to accelerate the approval of applications for citizenship for millions of immigrants who would serve as pro-Clinton voters.
Mexico’s leaders were seeking a Reconquista via mass immigration and powerful elected Democrats saw this as an easy opportunity to garner new partisan voters.
Clinton was more than willing to toss aside FBI checks for criminal records, dumb down the required civics exam, and scrap the English language proficiency test to generate new Democrat voters.
An estimated 1.2 million new citizens were sworn in during the 1996 election year. A whopping three times more than the previous year. A later audit revealed that 75,000 had criminal records ignored, 61,000 were passed through without their fingerprints submitted for a criminal background check and many couldn’t speak rudimentary English.
In my opinion, this was such an audacious success that it was later instituted by both Presidents Obama and Biden.
Ed Liberatore
Turtle Creek