BIDEN’S IMMIGRATION ORDER DRAWS MIXED RESPONSE IN TEXAS. HERE’S WHAT LAWMAKERS ARE SAYING.
Texas lawmakers, activist and immigration experts provided mixed responses to President Joe Biden’s policy providing new protections for the undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens unveiled Tuesday …
Texas-based immigrants right group RAICES wrote in a Tuesday news release that the policy would begin to unravel decades of harm to immigrant communities tracing back to the Clinton administration’s 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act.
However, the group also highlighted that the new policy is being announced on the heels of another executive order restricting the number of asylum-seekers that many have denounced as among the administration’s most draconian and restrictive.
“We applaud any action that provides long awaited relief for American families caught in the crossfires of U.S. culture wars,” wrote RAICES’ CEO Dolores K. Schroeder in the group’s press release. “But we must acknowledge that this latest immigration program does not remedy the years of harm and injustice inflicted by this country’s flawed immigration system.”
