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President Joe Biden will soon try to get his immigration proposal through Congress.
As a new legislative session gets underway at the state Capitol, immigrant advocacy groups in the midstate have set their priorities for Pennsylvania.
After spending much of the fall organizing to get out the vote, members of the Latino and immigrant organization CASA are calling on lawmakers to support several initiatives, including allowing undocumented immigrants to qualify for in-state tuition at the 14 state-owned universities and community colleges.
During a video conference with members and several Democratic state lawmakers, Mary Lou Saldaña of Dauphin County said she went back to school to get her GED and wants to become a nurse. But without papers, her options are limited.
Traveling from Seven States, they demand decisive action from President-elect Joe Biden on three key issues.
In Delaware, hundreds of immigrant rights advocates led by Make the Road Action and Casa in Action came in a cavalcade from seven states and Washington D.C converging on President-Elect Joe Biden’s home city of Wilmington on Tuesday, December 15 to deliver a firm message take decisive action on three key issues: immigration, criminal justice reform, and debt relief for Puerto Rico.
But Biden’s commitment to fulfilling his campaign pledge to dismantle the Trump administration’s immigration policies through executive authority have recently been cast into doubt. On December 13, NPR reported that Biden intentionally did not include immigration in his top four priorities because the Biden camp and then the transition team felt that immigration activists had become too adversarial.