Biden-Harris Administration Making Strides; Yet Much More Needed on Immigration Reform
April 29, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following President Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project and Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative released the following statements.
On pathways to citizenship
“While the Biden-Harris administration has taken some encouraging steps, it’s time to fully embrace immigration reform and the undoing of the cruelty and chaos of the past,” said
Efrén Olivares, deputy legal director of the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project. “Our communities cannot afford more of the same capitulating to xenophobic rhetoric, and we must not be deterred by bad faith efforts to demonize immigrants. This is the year to finally deliver a pathway to citizenship for immigrant youth, TPS recipients, farmworkers, and essential workers.”