Determined to turn the page on Trump
Biden seeks to facilitate the granting of US citizenship to 9 million immigrants
Biden's strategy relies on having a healthy and humane immigration system.
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US officials said that President Joe Biden will ask his government to facilitate the naturalization of nine million immigrants eligible for US citizenship, as part of a series of measures aimed at returning to the United States' traditions of receiving immigrants and turning the page of former President Donald Trump, while Democratic prosecutors considered in Trump's trial In the text of their pleading, what the former president did before storming Congress constitutes "a betrayal unprecedented in the history of the United States."
The Democratic President will also order a review of all controls on legal immigration and integration put forward by his predecessor Trump, which will lead to "radical changes in immigration policy," as senior government officials announced.
These senior administration officials said that these instructions will be issued in a series of immigration decrees that Biden will sign, stressing his desire to continue the tradition of welcoming immigrants.
The officials added that Biden's strategy "is based on the premise that the United States is safer, stronger and more prosperous with a sound, rational and humane immigration system."
One of Biden's campaign promises concerns the formation of a working group tasked with reuniting immigrants' families, who were separated due to the Trump administration's stopping immigration policy of 2018. After stirring up controversy, the Republican government eventually abandoned the measure, but hundreds of children did not They still meet their families.
The task of this working group will be to identify families and propose the reunification of immigrants “according to their desires and conditions,” as US officials made clear without saying whether this would include the return of expelled parents or children to American soil.
There is a second decree related to immigrant countries. In addition to reactivating economic aid, the decree aims to restore legal immigration channels from the source, such as those that made it possible in the era of Barack Obama to bring hundreds of minors whose parents were already in the United States, without being forced to take roads Dangerous migration.
The third decree aims to promote the integration of immigrants legally residing in the United States.
And it provides for "making naturalization easier for the nine million people who qualify for US citizenship," according to what US officials said.
This goal includes reviewing the rule called "cost to society", established by the Republican administration in August 2019, to refuse to grant a green card or US citizenship to immigrants receiving social assistance, such as health care or a housing allowance.
"It was an assessment of the immigrants' financial condition," said one senior official.
Most of these reforms will be overseen by the Minister of Homeland Security.
Joe Biden appointed Alejandro Mayoras to this position, and the Senate is supposed to confirm him in his position at a later time.
After his confirmation, Mayuras will be the first person of Hispanic origin to assume this ministry, which oversees immigration, police and border issues, as well as emergency response.
Mallorcas descended from a family of Cuban immigrants and arrived in the United States as a child.
Upon his arrival at the White House, Biden has already sent messages of reassurance to the left wing of the Democratic Party, which is expecting a complete shift in immigration, after four years during which the borders of the United States were closed.
In particular, he canceled two prominent measures of his predecessor, the first being the construction of a wall on the border with Mexico that Joe Biden decided to stop.
It also lifted the ban on entry for citizens of Muslim-majority countries to the United States.
He also referred a bill to Congress that could regularize millions of illegal immigrants in the United States.
But adopting it will require persuading many Republicans, which seems difficult.
In addition, the Democratic prosecutors in the trial of Donald Trump considered, in the text of their pleading, which was published yesterday, that what the former president did, before the storming of Congress on the sixth of last January, constitutes "a betrayal unprecedented in the history of the United States."
Prosecutors said that “Trump incited a violent crowd to attack the Capitol, and his intention to remain in power at any cost is a treason with a historical dimension.” They demanded his “indictment” at the conclusion of this trial, which begins on February 9th.
Expectations have spread that Trump's trial before the Senate, as part of his impeachment mechanism, will be full of excitement, and that the media will focus on it, as Trump's new legal team includes two experts in criminal cases and experienced in dealing with the media, one of whom refused to prosecute Representative Bill Cosby for rape charges He even exchanged lawsuits with his presumed victim.
The second, consider defending Jeffrey Epstein, who is accused of trafficking in human beings for sexual purposes.
Trump has assigned attorneys David Sean and Bruce Castor to represent him during his trial.
Within a week, they must devise a strategy to ensure that the former president gets enough support from Republican senators to avoid a second indictment within a year.
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