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The president’s budget addresses the main attack lines that Republicans are using against him and his Democratic allies in Congress in the run-up to the midterm congressional elections.
Joe Biden’s Immigration Acid Test The battle for reform offers the new administration a chance to exorcise Trumpism and prove it has agenda-setting grit. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Activists and citizens with temporary protected status march toward the White House in a call for Congress and the Biden administration to pass immigration reform legislation. Last week, Democrats introduced the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021—a comprehensive immigration bill that will evidently be one of the Biden administration’s first major legislative battles after the coronavirus relief fight is finished. I...
As President-elect Joe Biden enters office with a Democrat-controlled Congress by his side, immigration rights advocates are calling on his administration to shift resources out of the country’s sprawling immigration enforcement system and into community services. But with billions of taxpayer dollars already earmarked for detention and deportation, and powerful political and corporate interests aligned to continue operations, Biden will face hurdles to making transformative changes, experts and advocates told Capital & Main. Biden has already promised that “tackling our dysfunctional imm...