POLITICS: President Joe Biden has disclosed a new policy involving the protection of immigrants in the United States. President Biden and administration have taken steps to secure the border.
By Michelle Crawford-Sapenter.
The announcement by Biden contains tge administration’s plans for increasing security and keeping families together. Biden has stated a number of policy changes that are expected to ensure that the Day One Immigration reform secures and protects immigrants.
• Implementing executive actions to bar migrants who cross our Southern border unlawfully from receiving asylum when encounters are high;
• Deploying record numbers of law enforcement personnel, infrastructure, and technology to the Southern border;
• Seizing record amounts of fentanyl at our ports of entry;
• Revoking the visas of CEOs and government officials outside the U.S. who profit from migrants coming to the U.S. unlawfully; and
• Expanding efforts to dismantle human smuggling networks and prosecuting individuals who violate immigration laws.
Biden has, also issued new policies in regard to the efforts that will be made to ensure that immigrant families are kept together. Biden’s policy will also, include the following steps:
Keeping American Families Together
• Today, President Biden is announcing that the Department of Homeland Security will take action to ensure that U.S. citizens with noncitizen spouses and children can keep their families together.
• This new process will help certain noncitizen spouses and children apply for lawful permanent residence – status that they are already eligible for – without leaving the country.
• These actions will promote family unity and strengthen our economy, providing a significant benefit to the country and helping U.S. citizens and their noncitizen family members stay together.
• In order to be eligible, noncitizens must – as of June 17, 2024 – have resided in the United States for 10 or more years and be legally married to a U.S. citizen, while satisfying all applicable legal requirements. On average, those who are eligible for this process have resided in the U.S. for 23 years.
• Those who are approved after DHS’s case-by-case assessment of their application will be afforded a three-year period to apply for permanent residency. They will be allowed to remain with their families in the United States and be eligible for work authorization for up to three years. This will apply to all married couples who are eligible.
• This action will protect approximately half a million spouses of U.S. citizens, and approximately 50,000 noncitizen children under the age of 21 whose parent is married to a U.S. citizen.
During the Obama -Biden administration, a number of DACA policies were established to allow the youth who came into the U.S. as minors wold be given an opportunity to become educated and make a contribution to American society.
DREAMERS from that era are college graduates who are enjoying successful careers in fields relate to their college education.
Today, tge Biden administration has taken action to “ facilitate the employment visa process for those who have graduated from college.” The welcome by tge Biden administration is eco tended to DREAMERS and DACA immigrants.
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