President Biden is making his first trip to the southwestern border.
to Washington, DC, New York, and Massachusetts. Biden, on his first day in office, delivered on a campaign promise by sending a comprehensive immigration-reform proposal to Congress, where it has sat ever since. The political math to pass much of anything has been daunting, likely requiring at least 10 Republican senators to join Democrats voting in favor of the package.
The president’s lieutenants have, however, also made lower-profile gains in fixing the decades-in-the-making mess Biden inherited. Whereas Trump pushed to deport all migrants who had entered illegally, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has rationalized the process for assessing who gets to stay and who must leave. Biden’s DHS, unlike Trump’s, doesn’t threaten to arrest people at schools and in hospitals. A pilot program to evaluate asylum-seekers more quickly is up and running.
Biden’s new agenda expands Title 42 rules to migrants from those countries who attempt to reach the US through Mexico; the president is also expanding a “parole” program that could admit 30,000 migrants per month from those countries, if they apply for admission to the US from abroad. “The administration has done some meaningful and very consequential positive things.
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