In addition, Mr. Biden is proposing to spend another $80 billion over the next ten years to increase the maximum amount that low-income college students can receive through Pell Grants. The limit would rise by $1,4000 from $6,495.
Though both ideas have bipartisan backing, the support begins to fray when Mr. Biden extends the new benefit to “Dreamers,” illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and grew up here.
The Biden plan would reverse a longstanding policy that bars non-citizens from receiving taxpayer-funded aid.
Rep. Virginia Fox of North Carolina, the top Republican on the Education and Labor Committee, noted that Mr. Biden is giving illegal immigrants a free college education but leaving Americans on the hook for student loans.
Count of Illegal Alien Population Excluded from U.S. Census Data
27 Apr 2021
An estimation of the number of illegal aliens living in the United States is excluded from early data released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau thanks to executive orders from President Joe Biden.
Census Bureau officials released population totals this week, revealing that the U.S. population stands at about 331,449,281 residents, adding more than 22,700,000 residents since 2010. Still unknown is how many of those nearly 331.5 million U.S. residents are illegal aliens.
In March 2018, former President Trump’s administration announced that it would seek to put the American citizenship question back on the Census to determine how many citizens, legal immigrants, and illegal aliens reside in the U.S.
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The following statement was issued by Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), regarding the nomination of Ed Gonzalez to lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): As part of his unrelenting assault on the integrity of our immigration enforcement system, President Biden has chosen a staunch opponent of interior immigration enforcement to lead the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. Harris County (Texas) Sheriff Ed Gonzalez will bring the sort of contempt for enforcement of immigration laws in the interior of the country that Chris Magnus, President Biden s pick for Customs and Border Protection, will bring to controlling our borders. Neither is fit for the important jobs for which they are being nominated, and their appointments should be rejected by the Senate.