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Cuccinelli exploits Hannukah stabbing tragedy for baseless anti-immigrant smear
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-cuccinelli-hanukkah-stabbing-new-york-immigrant-tweet-deleted-edited-a9265646.html..."Ken Cuccinelli is the acting director of the US citizenship and immigration services (USCIS) and posted the message - since deleted - in the wake of the attack in Monsey, north of New York City, in which a man apparently burst into a rabbi’s home during Hanukkah celebrations and began stabbing attendees.
He wrote: “The attacker is the US Citizen son of an illegal alien who got amnesty under the 1986 amnesty law for illegal immigrants. Apparently, American values did not take hold among this entire family, at least this one violent, and apparently bigoted, son.”
A bipartisan bill was signed in 1986 by then-President Reagan granting legal status to undocumented immigrants who entered the country before 1982."...(more)