President #Biden on Tues will announce sweeping new #protections for hundreds of thousands of #immigrants who have been living in the #UnitedStates illegally for years but are married to American #citizens.
#POTUS will detail the policy at the WH on Tues while marking the 12-yr anniversary of #DACA which protects people who came to the US as children from #deportation.
That means long separations from their spouses & families. The new program would allow families to remain in the country while they pursue #legal status.
The announcement could amount to the most sweeping unilateral move by a president to provide relief to unauthorized #immigrants since President Barack Obama implemented #DACA. In a separate move on Tues, #Biden is also expected to announce new ways to help people in DACA, known as #Dreamers, gain access to work #visas.
The program #Biden is expected to announce on Tues is known as “parole in place,” which has been used in the past for other populations, like families of military. It gives unauthorized #immigrants in the #UnitedStates protection from #deportation for a period & access to a work permit.
“What the Biden admin is doing may well turn out to be the biggest news for common-sense #immigration#policy since the #DACA program in 2012 helped childhood arrivals stay,” said Mari Urbina, dir of Indivisible.
Former President Donald Trump said Monday that if reelected, he plans to work “side by side” with a newly formed religious organization that says abortion is the “greatest atrocity facing” the United States and should be “eradicated entirely.”...
“You’re not going to get 11 million people out of this country,” Lindsey Graham, a Dream Act cosponsor, once said. “That’s just not practical, that’s going to kill the Republican Party."
Ahead of the #DACA anniversary next week, now he’s all-in on deporting those same Dreamers.