‘IT’S HIS DACA MOMENT’: ADVOCATES ECSTATIC OVER BIDEN IMMIGRATION PLAN
The new plan streamlines the process for spouses and children who don’t have permanent legal status of U.S. citizens to apply for permanent residency and grants three-year work permits and deferral from deportation for those applicants …
“What our nation’s history and current polling suggests is that there is certainly a symbiotic relationship amongst the words of our community leaders, policies enacted by our elected officials, media headlines, and public perception. One has the power to feed, reinforce, and perpetuate another — a power that can be used to advance or regress immigrant rights in the U.S.,” said Faisal Al-Juburi, chief external affairs officer at RAÍCES.
“As such, we believe that policies reaffirming our nation’s commitment to protecting families, regardless of citizenship, can positively influence the hearts and minds of the American public. With humanitarian rather than punitive and criminalizing policies, our elected officials can shape public understanding about our community and activate urgent support in favor of fixing our nation’s broken immigration system.”
