Washington, United States.
Inaugurating which is anticipated as one New Age a la White house, The President of the United States, Joe Biden, fulfilled his election promise to present in its first day of mandate an ample project of immigration law which includes a route to the citizenship for about 11 million undocumented in the country.
After four years of hard hand against the immigrants of the outgoing president, Donald Trump, Biden ‘s transition team announced details of the bill on Wednesday Democrat send to Congress as part of their commitment to “Modernize” the immigration system, called “US Citizenship Act 2021”.
The initiative, which will have to receive the approval of the two legislative chambers, dominated by the democrats, Aims to manage and protect from “Responsible way” the border, keep at “safe families and communities and better manage migration across the hemisphere, “a statement said.
If approved, the draft law of Biden would suppose the greater migratory reform from the Republican Government Ronald Reagan (1981-1989), which legalized a 3 million undocumented in 1986.
IMMEDIATE RESIDENCE FOR DREAMERS AND TEPESIANS
Not in vain, and as its name suggests, its key point is to offer a path to the citizenship in 8 years to 11 million of undocumented immigrants who are estimated to live in the US.
Immigrants will be able to get one temporary legal status which will give them the option of get 5 years then permission from residence (“green card” or green card), if they meet a number of requirements how not to have criminal record and pay your taxes.
But a significant group of them, the minors who came to the country as children at the hands of their parents, also undocumented and known as “Dreamers”, as well as those protected by the Temporary Protection Status (TPS), mostly centreamericans, And the immigrant agricultural workers they will be able to aspire to one “immediate” legal residence i 3 years later to the citizenry, Highlighted the note.
To avoid one avalanche of immigrants, the bill states that this measure would affect the immigrants that are “physically present in United States on or before January 1, 2021 “.
The deportees during the Trump presidency, Since January 20, 2017, and who were physically present for at least three years before the expulsion they can claim the same benefit for “Family unit i other humanitarian purposes “, but already this process will depend on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS, in English), for which Biden has nominated the Cuban-American Alejandro Mayorkas.
In his confirmation hearing before the Senate this Monday, Mayorkas pointed out that citizenship will be granted to “individuals who have been in the country for many years, who have contributed to our communities ia la economic prosperity of the nation “.
The Democratic senator Bob Menendez announced this Wednesday that he will lead the legislative effort in the upper house for the passage of this bill and present it to his colleagues to achieve a “fair, humane and functional” migration system.
“The last four years have been traumatic for immigrant communities that have suffered relentless attacks from the Trump administration. Today, we turn the page on this dark chapter of our history and begin the hard work to repair the damage and rebuild a better union that reflects the values of our nation “, He assured.
In the lower house, the bill will be sponsored by the congresswoman Spanish Linda Sanchez, he said in a tweet that he has waited too long for this reform, so he doesn’t plan on wasting time to put it on “Hands on” to get it.
A SEMANTICAL CHANGE: FROM ‘ALIEN’ (FOREIGN) TO NO CITIZEN
One of the modifications that includes the initiative of Biden is semantic, but picks up a long – standing order from organizations and activists in favor of the immigrants, Who have expressed their malaise pgold that is linked to this community with terms like “Illegal alien.”
“The bill recognizes United States as a nation of immigrants in changing the word ‘Alien’ for ‘non-citizen’ in ours immigration laws“, Highlights the statement.
Another of the aspirations of the law will be the family reunification, giving special importance to LGBTQ family groups + And also allowing immigrants with approved requests from family sponsorships meet with your loved ones in the US temporarily while they wait for the residence cards.
also the bill includes a provision banning “discrimination based on religion and limiting presidential authority to issue future bans” and increases diversity visas of 55,000-80,000.
Among others of its controversial decisions, Trump set up as soon as you get to the White house a migratory veto on nationals of eleven 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 try to get the necessary support Republican in the Senate, Biden also included new resources in the border, his decision to set aside the construction of the wall on the border with Mexico – the election promise half-fulfilled by Trump- and bet mainly on the “Technology” to expedite the detection of the illegal crossing of goods and narcotics.
The new proposal seeks to do the same allocate funds to improve the “professionalism” of border agents and set up a committee to investigate possible “misconduct”, and seeks to improve the care of individuals, families and minors in the custody of the Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP). ). EFE