(CNN) Former President George W. Bush is calling for bipartisan action on immigration.
The 43rd President voiced that call in a Friday Washington Post op-ed, writing that there needs to be action on several measures.
Pres. Bush advocated for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program or DACA, and providing a citizenship pathway for immigrants brought here as children.
He also suggested to use all necessary resources, including physical barriers, for quote “a secure and efficient border.”
While emphasizing a secure border, the former President also said we can’t rely just on enforcement.
Bush also said Congress should reshape the asylum system quote “to guard against unmerited entry and reserve that vital status for it’s intended recipients.”
WASHINGTON — Congress has tried for decades to enact comprehensive immigration legislation without success, so starting next week the House will try a different strategy: passing a pair of more
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Monica Lazaro speaking at an Americans for Immigrant Justice event
DACA recipient Monica Lazaro, MPH ’21, is advocating for health policies that will help immigrants and others left behind
February 10, 2021 – At age 9, Monica Lazaro got the news every child dreams about: Her family was going to Disney World. When she arrived at the airport in her native Honduras, however, it seemed strange that everyone she knew was there. “My grandma was crying and I remember telling her I’d bring her a plush Minnie Mouse and everything would be okay,” Lazaro says. It was only years later, living in Miami, that she pieced together the truth: Her father had been robbed at gunpoint inside his clothing store in San Pedro Sula and the family had fled the country’s rising gang violence for Florida. She also found out that, after overstaying their visas, they had become undocumented immigrants.
The president condemned immigration abuses from the past four years, beginning with a mandate to reunite separated families.
Children line up to enter a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Fla., in 2019. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
WASHINGTON (CN) Continuing his rollback of the last administration’s hardline immigration agenda, President Joe Biden called for major reforms to the country’s asylum programs Tuesday and is working to reunite the thousands of families separated at the border.
Biden signed three executive orders Tuesday evening, beginning what will likely be a long slog to undo the more than 400 immigration-related executive actions taken by former President Donald Trump since 2017.