Biden to Send Immigration Reform Bill to Congress Thursday

President Joe Biden’s proposed immigration overhaul will be introduced in Congress on Thursday, kicking off what will likely be one of his most difficult legislative challenges.

The legislation, known as the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, hews closely to the outline that Biden sent to Congress on his first day in office. The proposal includes an eight-year path to citizenship for most of the roughly 11 million immigrants living illegally in the U.S., bolsters the nation’s refugee and asylum systems and calls for additional technology to be used to help secure the southern border, administration officials told reporters late Wednesday.

The citizenship path is not explicitly tied to the implementation of border security measures, a trade-off included in past immigration bills designed to earn Republican support.

Representative Linda Sánchez, a California Democrat, will introduce the bill in the House on Thursday, according to an administration official. The bill’s lead sponsor in the Senate, New Jersey Democrat Robert Menendez, plans to introduce the legislation early next week in the upper chamber, which is now in recess.

Previous attempts at reforming the nation’s immigration system have failed over the past two decades, and Biden’s bill could face an even more daunting path because GOP lawmakers’ opposition to legalizing undocumented immigrants, which they decry as amnesty, hardened during the Trump era.

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[craig]

OPEN the gates. The fact that we do nothing for the Homeless is unbelievable. Why would you let more people in before you take care of the people already here ?

[boerqwhaas]

This is what decency looks like - open borders and bowing to china.

[jeremiahochoa]

12 million people unemployed right now in the US but the answer is to bring in 11 million more unemployed during a pandemic and a natural disaster

[alexc]

Compare all the things he has done so far for illegal immigrants to what he has done for American citizens.

[Joshua]

take the guns and open the borders... what can go wrong.

[jmill]

Take care of the people in your own country first

[SBMMBOOGIE]

Where’s our stimulus who cares about immigration your own country is struggling

[unboxedcharacter]

Biden should be helping them Americans out down in Texas

[jacksonpayne]

LMAO for the most popular president of all time he sure gets a lot of dislikes on his videos

[alsilva]

"immigration reform" HA HA HA

[garydraper]

They still trying to convince us that 80 million people voted for this clown

[stevenspearman]

I'm surprised he's sending it to Congress instead of signing his 69th executive order.

[collumjm]

Shouldn't he be working on an election integrity bill?

[looseparashoot]

He wants to ban guns... Open borders.. Still no stimulus checks... What is he doing?

[mariesantos]

Yes...send them all to freeload off of you and your house .!!! "..I am not paying taxes for this.!!

[dennishall]

I think this thumbs down speaks how the American people feel!

[errol]

When you pay more attention to everyone but the citizens of your own country, one side of the media will label you a "champion of the people, " but rational people will simply say this: your priorities are severely out of alignment.

[dfgyuhdd]

Call your congressman and tell them to throw it in the trash

[dallen]

I need 3rd stim check to pay taxes on the first two

[ajderoehn]

Texas and Florida already refused. Where does Joe plan on putting these people?