Washington.- President Joe Biden asked Congress on Tuesday to approve “once and for all” a immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants who live in the country.
During his State of the Union address, Joe Biden also boasted of having achieved that many countries in the center and south of the American continent agree to “take in more refugees and keep their borders secure”.
“Immigration reform is something that everyone supports, from unions to religious leaders, including the US Chamber of Commerce. Let’s approve it once and for all,” he stressed.
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Biden believed that this reform should provide a path to citizenship for “dreamers”, young people who came to the United States being children, and to beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
It would also serve to regularize farmworkers and those employees who have been deemed essential during the pandemic, he added.
Biden assured that this “is not only the right thing to do, but it is also economically smart”, and asked to make sure that “families do not have to wait decades to reunite”.
“We can keep burning the torch of freedom that brought generations of immigrants to this country, my ancestors and many of yours,” Biden asked lawmakers.
On his first day in office, more than a year ago, Biden has already asked Congress to pass a immigration reform with a path to citizenship for the around 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country.
Since then, that measure has languished in Congress, where even smaller versions of that initial bill have failed to advance in a Senate and a House where the majority of Democrats is minimal.
This reality has generated frustration among many Hispanic voters and activists, who lament that immigration reform has once again been relegated to the background despite the promises of the White House, just as it happened during the Barack Obama Administration (2009-2017). ).
During his speech, Biden He also defended that the United States has “established joint patrols with Mexico and Guatemala to capture more human traffickers” and reduce the flow of undocumented immigrants to the southern US border.
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In addition, he stressed that scanners and other high-tech mechanisms have been installed at the border to “better detect drug trafficking.”
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