The President of the United States, Joe Biden, will send a new bill on migration to Congress. This one aims be “restored humanity and values” and find it migrants are given citizenship and more rights. We’ll tell you what it’s about.
According to an official document on this bill, Joe Biden wants to prioritize the fact that migrant families stay together, grow the economy, seek the causes of migration and ensure that “the United States remains a haven for those fleeing” from their country.
“The bill will boost our economy and ensure that all workers are protected. The bill creates a deserved path to citizenship for our immigrant neighbors, colleagues, parishioners, community leaders, friends ”, the document refers.
This is what the law seeks in favor of migrants
The bill allows undocumented migrants to apply for temporary legal status; can ask green cards after five years –If that’s verified no criminal and national security registry, as well as the correct payment of taxes.
Immigrants who meet specific requirements they can immediately receive ‘green cards’, according to the law. The people – green cards – who do the verification and demonstrate that their knowledge of English and United States civics will be able to be a citizen.
“Applicants must be physically present in the United States on or before January 1, 2021.”
- United families, inclusion and support
They try to keep the families of migrants together. To do this, they search that bill Reform the immigration system for families by “clearing backlogs, recovering unused visas, eliminating long delays and raising visa limits per country”.
They also try to eliminate calls “3- and 10-year bans” and other provisions that separate families. It also aims to eliminate discrimination in families in the LGBTQ + community.
“It also provides protection for orphans, widows, children and Filipino veterans who fought alongside the United States in World War II,” the official document states.
Finally, the bill allows immigrants – with approved family sponsorship petitions – “Join your family in the United States temporarily while they wait for green cards to become available.”
The bill includes the NO BAN law “which prohibits discrimination based on religion and limits authority president to enact future bans ”. For this reason, diversity visas are being increased from 55,000 to 80,000.
- Promote the integration and citizenship of immigrants and refugees
The law will seek to “provide new funds to state and local governments, private organizations, educational civil society organizations and non-profit organizations to expand programs to promote integration and inclusion, increase teaching in the English language and provide assistance to individuals seeking to become citizens. “
Seeks to close backlogs in employment-based visas, recover unused visas, shorten long waiting times and lift country-specific visa restrictions; improves access to green cards for workers in sectors with lower wages.
The law aims to protect workers from exploitation and to improve the employment verification process. It also protects them from deportation by becoming victims of workplace retaliation; Increase penalties for employers who violate labor laws.
- Border management and protection of border communities
The bill aims to train and provide continuing education for those responsible for security and the professionalism of agents and officers. Aims to establish an Advisory Committee of Stakeholders in the Border Community to investigate administrative and criminal misconduct.
The bill mandates the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to study the impact of DHS’s authority to waive federal, state, and environmental laws to accelerate the construction of barriers and highways near US borders. . Provide extra rescue beacons to avoid unnecessary deaths along the border.
- Against migrant trafficking
This law is intended to “target criminal organizations. The bill improves the ability to prosecute people involved in smuggling and human trafficking networks responsible for the exploitation of migrants.
Aims to increase sanctions against foreign drug traffickers. “The bill also requires the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and DHS, in conjunction with the Secretary of State, to improve and expand transnational anti-gang crime groups in Central America.”
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