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Nika Schoonover, Politics Editor|February 10, 2021
President Joe Biden has promised to prioritize immigration reform and sent a bill to Congress that aims to implement a better path to citizenship. Formally titled the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, the bill would most notably provide an eight-year pathway to citizenship for some 11 million immigrants in the United States.
William Lopez, a clinical assistant professor and a faculty associate in the Latino Studies Program at the University of Michigan, said that Biden’s proposed legislation opens the opportunity to improve on the immigration policies of the Obama and Trump administrations.
“And I think Biden can now work to improve off from both of those, you know, all of the policies of his two recent predecessors,” Lopez said.