Migrants are greeted by Taylor Levy (center), a local immigration attorney, at the Paso del Norte International Bridge in April 2020 in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. People seeking asylum were enrolled in the Migrant Protection Protocols program, better known as the Remain in Mexico policy. The Department of Homeland Security announced that starting Thursday, it would stop new enrollments in MPP. Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images
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Migrants are greeted by Taylor Levy (center), a local immigration attorney, at the Paso del Norte International Bridge in April 2020 in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. People seeking asylum were enrolled in the Migrant Protection Protocols program, better known as the Remain in Mexico policy. The Department of Homeland Security announced that starting Thursday, it would stop new enrollments in MPP.
Under the new administration, the Department of Homeland Security looks set to roll back several Trump-era immigration policies and to establish a path to citizenship for immigrants.
Democratic strategist Mustafa Tameez and Republican strategist Amanda Makki debate the president-elect’s immigration policies on ‘Fox & Friends First.’
The Democratic senator leading the effort to pass the Biden immigration bill in the Senate said it will be a Herculean effort to get the sweeping legislation passed amid significant Republican opposition to the bill, which includes a path to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants. As someone who has been in these battles for nearly two decades, I am under no illusions. I know from my time in the Gang of Eight that passing immigration reform through the Senate particularly is a Herculean task, Sen. Bob Mendendez, D-N.J., said on a virtual briefing introducing the legislation.
The plan, known as the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, would provide a pathway to citizenship to the 11 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United States.
Advocates Hail Bidenâs First Executive Actions on Immigration
President Joe Biden leaves after attending a virtual swearing in ceremony for political appointees from the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2021.
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The orders, signed just hours after Biden was sworn in as the nationâs 46
th president, began what is expected to be a long process of chiseling away at the anti-immigrant policies that were a centerpiece of the Trump administration.
âIâm really pleased to hear the commitments that heâs made in these initial executive actions and, hopefully, the continued action that he and his administration will take toward immigration justice,â the Rev. Cody Sanders of Old Cambridge Baptist Church said.