Washington, United States.
Inauguration of what is expected as one new Age in the White House, the president of the US, Joe Biden, be fulfilled electoral promise to get an expanded version of immigration law which is a path to it citizenship For some 11 million undocumented migrants in the country.
After four years firm handshake against the immigrants of the outgoing mandatory, Donald Trump, Biden’s transition team on Wednesday announced details of the bill that the democrat send to today Congress as part of your commitment to “modernizing” the immigration system, called US Citizenship Act of 2021.
The initiative, which must receive the approval of both legislative chambers, is dominated by the Democrats, is intended to manage and protect against “responsible way” the boundary, keep “safe families and communities and to better manage migration across the hemisphere, ”said a statement.
If approved, the legislative project of Biden would assume it important immigration reform of the republican government Ronald Reagan (1981-1989), which has been legalized 3 million undocumented migrants in 1986.
IMMEDIATE RESIDENCE FOR DREAMERS AND TEPESIANS
Not for nothing, and as the name suggests, the main point is to provide a way to citizenship in 8 years at 11 million from undocumented immigrants who are estimated to live in the US.
Immigrants can get a temporary legal status which gives you the option of reach 5 years after permission from residencia (“green card” or green card), if they have a string of requirements how to miss criminal record and pay your taxes.
But a significant group of them, the minors who came to the country as children by the hand of their parents, also undocumented and known as “dreamers”, as well as those under temporary protected status (TPS), mostly Central Americans, and the immigrant farm workers can strive for one “immediate” legal residence and 3 years later to citizenship, the note is highlighted.
To a flood of immigrants, the bill states that this measure would have consequences for the immigrants that “are physically present in United States on or before January 1, 2021. “
Those during the Trump presidency, since January 20, 2017, and who were at least physically present three years for the eviction can apply for the same benefit for “family unit and other humanitarian purposes “, But this process will depend on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), for which Biden has nominated Cuban-American Alejandro Mayorkas.
At your confirmation hearing for the Senate this Monday, Mayorkas pointed out that citizenship will be granted to “persons who have resided in the country for many years, who have contributed to our communities But the economic prosperity of the nation. “
The Democratic Senator Bob Menendez announced on Wednesday that he will lead the legislative effort in the Senate to approve this bill and will submit it to his colleagues for a “fair, humane and functional” migration system.
“The past four years have been traumatic for immigrant communities that have faced brutal attacks from the Trump administration. Today we turn the page of this dark chapter in our history and begin the hard work to repair the damage and build a better union that reflects the values of our nation “, he assured.
In the House of Representatives, the bill is sponsored by the congressman Spanish Linda Sánchez, who said in a tweet that too much has been waited for this reform so he is not going to waste time getting it “let’s do it” to obtain it.
A SEMANTIC CHANGE: FROM ‘ALIEN’ (FOREIGN) TO NON-CITIZEN
One of the changes included in the initiative of Biden is semantic, but it picks up a long-standing request from the organizations and activists in favor of immigrants, which their discomfort por get linked to this community with terms like “illegal alien”.
The bill acknowledges U.S as a nation of immigrants by changing the word ‘Foreign’ for ‘non-citizen’ in us immigration lawsthe statement emphasizes.
Another pursuit of the law will be family reunion, indicate special importance to LGBTQ family groups + and also admitting immigrants with approved petitions for family sponsorship reunite with loved ones in the US temporarily in anticipation of the green cards.
Also the bill contains a provision that “prohibits discrimination based on religion and limits the presidential authority to enact future bans” and increases the Diversity visas from 55,000 to 80,000.
Among other things, of his controversial decisions, Trump established as soon as he received the White House a migration ban for the nationals of 11 countries with a significant Muslim population (Eritrea, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Burma, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania and Yemen) and that includes restrictions for Venezuela and North Korea.
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To get the necessary support Republican in the Senate, Biden also added new sources in the Frontera, his decision to put aside the construction of the wall on the border with Mexico – the electoral promise half fulfilled by Trump- and mainly focuses on the “technology” speed up the detection of illegal crossing of goods and narcotics.
The new proposal aims the same allocate funds to improve the “professionalism” of border agents and establish a committee to investigate possible “misconduct”, and to improve the care of individuals, families and minors under the care of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) ). EFE