Joe Biden will introduce regularization measures that could benefit hundreds of thousands of people, the White House announced Tuesday, June 18, as immigration is a major issue in the US presidential campaign.
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This is a politically sensitive issue for the Democratic president, who is regularly accused of laxity on the issue by whoever he will face in the November election, his Republican predecessor. Donald Trumpwith very virulent anti-immigration rhetoric.
Joe Biden recently announced a very clear tightening of its migration policy to deal with the arrival of migrants to border with Mexico. But the 81-year-old Democrat, keen not to alienate progressive or foreign-born voters, is also extolling the benefits of regulated immigration through measures like those announced on Tuesday, June 18.
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Immigrant Spouses of US Citizens
To obtain naturalization in the United States, the fastest route is to marry a US citizen. But when you enter the country illegally, it becomes an administrative obstacle course. Federal law requires you to leave the country to file an official application abroad, and this can take years. Unthinkable for those who fled their country of origin and built a life, a family in the United States. What Joe Biden will allow is to put an end to this requirement
The US president intends to facilitate the issuance of residence and work permits to immigrant spouses of US citizens and their children, according to a press release from the US executive.
” This measure would protect approximately half a million spouses of US citizens and approximately 50,000 immigrant children under the age of 21. », according to the White House. Joe Biden also wants to speed up the work visa process for certain immigrants who have obtained a higher education in the United States and have received a job offer in the country.
The measure will especially apply to recipients of a program that protects minor immigrants, implemented in 2012 when Barack Obama was president, and whose 12-year anniversary Joe Biden will celebrate Tuesday at the White House.
The Democrats’ campaign team also used this anniversary to broadcast a video in which recipients of this program, known in the US as ” Dreamers », attacking Donald Trump’s anti-immigration positions in English and Spanish.
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The former president wants, in case he returns to the White House, to organize mass deportations of illegal immigrants. He also accused migrants ” to poison the blood “from the country.
