President Biden announced significant actions to make the immigration system fairer while ensuring border security.
Biden announces new actions to help reunite families
According to the White House fact sheet, the administration will take the following steps:
Today, President Biden announced that the Department of Homeland Security will take action to ensure that U.S. citizens with non-citizen spouses and children can reunite with their families.
• This new process will help certain noncitizen spouses and children apply for lawful permanent residence (for which they are already eligible) without leaving the country.
• These actions will promote family unity and strengthen our economy, provide significant benefits to the country, and help reunite U.S. citizens and their noncitizen family members.
• To qualify, non-citizens must have resided in the United States (as of June 17, 2024) for 10 years or more, be legally married to a U.S. citizen, and meet all applicable legal requirements. On average, people who qualify for this process have lived in the United States for 23 years.
• Those approved after a case-by-case evaluation of applications by the Department of Homeland Security will be given a three-year window to apply for permanent residence. They will be allowed to stay in the United States with their families and will be eligible for work authorization for up to three years. This will apply to all eligible married couples.
• This action will protect approximately 500,000 spouses of U.S. citizens and approximately 50,000 noncitizen children under the age of 21 whose parents are married to U.S. citizens.
Easing visa process for U.S. college graduates, including Dreamers
President Obama and then-Vice President Biden created DACA, a policy that allowed young people who were brought here as children to come out of the shadows and make significant contributions to our country. Twelve years later, DACA recipients, who started out as high school and college students, are now building successful careers and starting families of their own.
Today’s announcement will allow individuals, including DACA recipients and other Dreamers, to earn degrees in the United States from accredited U.S. higher education institutions and gain employment opportunities with U.S. employers in the United States. Obtain a work visa.
Recognizing that it is in our national interest to ensure that individuals educated in the United States can use their skills and education to benefit our country, the Administration is taking action to provide an employment visa process for those who have graduated from college and have high-skilled job opportunities, including Including DACA recipients and other Dreamers.
Biden committed to making immigration system fairer and more equitable
Presidential Assistant Blas Nunez-Neto explained to PoliticusUSA on a call with reporters that President Biden’s goal is to secure the border and reunite families:
The Department of Homeland Security will take action to help citizens with noncitizen spouses and children maintain family unity. This new process will help certain noncitizen spouses and children apply for lawful permanent residence status for which they are already eligible without leaving the country and potentially putting themselves at risk. This action would protect approximately 500,000 U.S. families and approximately 50,000 noncitizen children under the age of 21 whose parents are married to U.S. citizens. Additionally, President Biden will announce that the administration is taking action to facilitate the employment-based visa process for people who have graduated from college and have high-skilled job opportunities, including DACA recipients and other Dreamers.
These measures demonstrate the Government’s commitment to acting within its legal authority to secure our borders and ensure our immigration system is fairer and more equitable. However, we remain soberly aware that only Congress can provide the additional human resources and policy changes needed to secure our borders, and only Congress can comprehensively reform our immigration and asylum laws to secure our borders and ensure Our border security.
Biden recognizes importance of legal immigration
The difference between Biden and Trump on immigration is that Biden wants to fix a broken system, while Trump’s solution is to abolish all immigration. The idea of mass deportations would be devastating to the U.S. economy. Families are torn apart for no reason other than cruelty.
Biden is working to build an immigration system that will continue to benefit the economy and be fair to everyone. Trump fails to see the importance of immigrants to the U.S. economy.
President Biden puts families first as his convicted felon opponent just tells people what they want to hear.
