The next US government, led by the Democrat Joe Biden, “has planned” to present to the Congress a Proyect of immigration Reformationsaid the vice-president-elect of U.S, Kamala Harris, in an interview with Univision.
In the interview with the journalist Ilia Calderon, of the Univision NewscastHarris did not specify the date his government will present the draft immigration Reformation, however Biden He vowed to promote comprehensive immigration reform in his first 100 days in power.
The plan would pave the way for millions of undocumented migrants living there U.S to become citizens, after a process of years in which they must first achieve the status of legal residents permanent.
The vice president-elect, a daughter of Indian and Jamaican descent, also referred to the situation of undocumented young immigrants known as dreamers, who arrived in the country before they reached the age of 16, for whom, he said, the “protections“.
As for immigrants who are under the protection of Temporary protection treaties (TPS), which is automatic green cards.
And he stressed that the new government “will recognize and thank the more than 200,000 dreamers those during the covid-19 pandemic“.
In this context, Harris made it clear that it will be the will of the new administration to ensure that “people receive vaccines regardless of their immigration status.”
U.S, the country most affected by pandemic of the coronavirus, has already more than registered 22.7 million infections confirmed and nearly 380,000 deaths, while the number of cases continues to rise across the country.
The draft immigration reform plan promised by Biden would bet that migrant families will be held together at the border, “not to divide them,” and Harris added that “children arriving at the border will receive legal advice” and ” are treated fairly. “
Harris recalled that in 2013, for the Trump administration, there were Republicans who were ready to implement a comprehensive immigration reform plan that was later House of Representatives.
For this reason, he is confident that his government’s “approach” has some support twofoldalthough “it won’t be easy,” he acknowledged.
The former senator before California He also referred to the implementation of an asylum policy that would provide ‘legal advice for those seeking refuge’ in this country and the provision of resources for the so-called Northern triangle of Central America (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador) and Mexico, with funds that contribute to the development of peace.
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