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Weekly Round-Up: Biden’s Proposes Immigration Reform; Judge Blocks New Immigration Court Fees; Supreme Court Considers Indefinite Detention of Certain Noncitizens Friday, January 22, 2021
Biden’s Sweeping New Immigration Proposals
President Joe Biden, sworn into office on Wednesday, will present Congress with a sweeping immigration reform bill. This bill represents a reversal of many of the previous administration’s immigration policies.
The most prominent feature of the bill is an eight-year path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants currently residing in the United States without legal status. Specifically, the bill would allow undocumented immigrants living in the United States as of January 1, 2021, to have a five-year path towards lawful permanent residency, provided that they pass background checks, pay taxes, and fulfill additional basic requirements. Following that, there would be an additional three-year path
In one of his first official acts on Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed executives orders on a broad range of issues, including immigration.
President Joe Biden will order his Cabinet to work to preserve the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which has shielded hundreds of thousands of people who came to the country as young children from deportation since it was introduced in 2012.
There are 80,000 Dreamers in New Jersey and about 53,000 of them are eligible for DACA, according to immigration rights group, Make the Road New Jersey.
Then-President Donald Trump ordered an end to DACA in 2017, triggering a legal challenge that ended in June when the Supreme Court ruled that it should be kept in place because the Trump administration failed to follow federal rule-making guidelines in undoing it. But DACA is still facing legal challenges.
The coronavirus pandemic
Mask requirement
Biden is requiring the use of masks and social distancing in all federal buildings, on federal lands and by federal employees and contractors. Consistently masking up is a practice that science has shown to be effective in preventing the spread of the coronavirus, particularly when social distancing is difficult to maintain.
He is challenging all Americans to wear a mask for the first 100 days of his administration. That’s a critical period, since communities will still be vulnerable to the virus even as the pace of vaccination increases in pursuit of Biden’s goal of 100 million shots in 100 days.