Under President-elect Donald Trump, Senate Democrats are mounting mounting pressure on the Biden administration to get proactive steps to protect hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants in the country from possible imprisonment.
Sens. On Wednesday, Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Alex Padilla (D-CA ), and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) publicly requested that President Joe Biden extend the timeline of protections for Dreamers, illegal immigrants who were brought to the country as children, and other groups protected through the Temporary Protected Status program.
” Now, we find ourselves in a land where thousands and thousands of]Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ] consumers and Temporary Protected Status buyers fear for their lives”, said Padilla, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety, at a press conference at the U. S. Capitol Wednesday night.
I’m joining my colleagues in urging the Biden presidency to immediately restore and extend their TPS protections to avoid qualified immigrants from countries like Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Ecuador from having their lives in America taken away, according to Padilla. We’ve been asking for some of this for years, and we’ve been asking President Biden to desire his management to do everything in their power to maintain protecting DACA consumers. This includes running programs as quickly as possible and finalizing some pending requirements.
The actions are no recent. Luján claimed that he and others had written letters and called the White House to address the matter “over the ages”
” But once, the intensity of the next 40 times may remain”, said Luján.
Trump said in an interview with NBC News on Sunday that he was willing to support legislation that would allow Dreamers to apply for citizenship without having to endure legal purgatory by applying for DACA every two centuries. The program gives consumers permission to work in the country and protection from imprisonment.
Cortez Masto questioned Trump’s claim that he was ready to assist Dreamers, and he noted that he had said the same thing in 2018 before after declining to mark a bipartisan bill on the subject.
The lawmakers have asked Biden to maintain some plans for another few centuries, buying the roughly 800,000 DACA recipients and the roughly 800,000 TPS consumers from some countries a few more years in the country because Trump has professed a willingness to arrest mixed-immigration standing families from the United States.
” I’ve had discussions with the White House. Yes, I believe many of us have, and they are now considering and considering this. That’s what I know and understand. And my hope is that with the ongoing push and the outreach, not just by us, but so many of us, to find them over the finish line, to state,’ You have the constitutional authority, get it,'” Cortez Masto said.
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Last week, the trio of senators , sent , Biden a letter calling on him to” Trump-proof” some immigration policies while still in the Oval Office.
A request for comment was not received by the White House.
