President Biden sent Congress a bill Wednesday that proposes significant changes to immigration policy, including a pathway to citizenship for millions of people who are illegally residing in the United States.
The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 would create a new system" to responsibly manage and secure our border, keep our families and communities safe, and better manage migration across the Hemisphere," Biden's transition team said in an announcement Wednesday morning as Biden prepared to be sworn in.
The bill focuses on three aspects of immigration and migration: providing a pathway to citizenship for approximately 11 million illegal immigrants and enhancing labor protections for workers, resolving root causes that prompt millions of Central Americans to flee to the U.S in the past decade.; and putting into place "smart" border controls.
“President Biden’s new vision for immigration reform is extraordinary and a welcome development for America, including the millions of people who are caught up in an outdated immigration system that no longer meets the needs of the nation,” said Jorge Loweree, policy director for immigrant advocacy group American Immigration Council. --->READ MORE HERE
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In 1980, singer Neil Diamond recorded a song that celebrated American immigration, first in the early 1900s and then more recently. The song included this chorus:
“On the boats and on the planes
They’re coming to America
Never looking back again
They’re coming to America.”
The song makes no distinction between the legal and orderly immigration of the early 20th century and the chaotic and illegal immigration that characterizes today’s movement of mostly Central Americans into the country.
Last Sunday, thousands of Hondurans formed caravans in an attempt to violate Mexico’s southern border on their way to our southern border. Police and soldiers wearing riot gear tried to block them, but the migrants broke through, undeterred by tear gas and batons.
They are likely coming because they are hearing that President Biden plans to deport fewer of them and because relatives have encouraged them to make the risky journey. They are coming because of poverty and crime in Honduras and other countries. Many of them had their homes destroyed by hurricanes. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links to related stories:
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