Biden to offer legal status to 11 million immigrants, plans to stop border wall construction [Los Angeles Times :: BC-BIDEN-IMMIGRATION-1ST-LEDE:LA]
“What could we do?” said Aguilar, 37.
Now the couple is awaiting answers from the new president.
Hours ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration, incoming White House officials released more details of the president-elect’s ambitious legislative proposals on immigration reform, including a pathway to U.S. citizenship for an estimated 11 million people and a series of executive actions, among them an immediate stop to construction of fencing along the southern border.
The incoming administration described its package as a common-sense approach to modernizing and restoring humanity to the immigration system following four years of President Donald Trump’s systematic crackdown on both legal and illegal immigration.
arrow People gather for a protest at Terminal 4 of John F. Kennedy Airport, after people arriving from muslim countries were detained at border control as a result of policies enacted by President Donald J. Trump, in New York, New York, USA, 28 January 2017.
In the opening hours of his presidency, President Biden took action to not just reverse the anti-immigrant policies of the last four years, but liberalize all aspects of a system long considered broken. Biden’s moves will have broad impact on new immigrants, long-time undocumented residents, and families with loved ones of mixed immigration status throughout the New York and New Jersey area.
Alvaro Hernandes saw his wife and recently born twin daughters for the last time through a video call on 5 January before he was deported from immigration detention in Kansas to Guatemala, after living in the US for 12 years. Shortly after Hernandes and his wife brought their two newborn daughters from the hospital in June 2020, he was detained for being undocumented and handed over to immigration customs enforcement by a local sheriff after he.
Commentary: ICE s policies have fueled spread of COVID
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Dec. 17, 2020
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It has long been clear that ICE detention centers are deeply harmful to those detained. It’s now increasingly clear they are also harmful to the communities that house them and their neighboring communities.Eric Gay /Associated Press
Texas is home to more immigrant detention centers than any other state. This sprawling network of private prisons, county jails, and publicly operated detention centers has long drawn criticism for egregious conditions including lack of access to basic hygienic products, inadequate food, sexual and physical abuse and medical neglect.
COVID Cases in Prisons and ICE Immigration Jails Surpass 250,000
With a rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak infecting about a third of all people incarcerated, medical tents are newly placed in a baseball field at San Quentin Prison during the COVID-19 pandemic in San Quentin, California, on July 9, 2020.
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The United States has the world’s highest incarceration rate and largest systems for locking people up. As soon as the COVID-19 pandemic began, experts and advocates warned the virus would be amplified by prisons and jails, where social distancing is impossible, ventilation is often poor and people are more likely to have underserved medical needs.