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Immigrants cheered President Joe Biden’s plan to provide a path to U.S. citizenship for about 11 million people without legal status, mixing hope with guarded optimism this week amid a seismic shift in how the American government views and treats them.
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The newly inaugurated president moved to reverse four years of harsh restrictions and mass deportation with a plan for sweeping legislation on citizenship. Biden also issued executive orders reversing some of former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, such as halting work on a U.S.-Mexico border wall and lifting a travel ban on people from several predominantly Muslim countries.
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Gustavo Ajche, 38, who has three jobs, gestures after watching Joe Biden s presidential inauguration on TV with other immigrants at the offices of the Workers Justice Center, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, in the Sunset Park neighborhood in New York. Atche has been in the United States since 2004. His wife is in the United States but his children are back in Guatemala while he and his wife pay for their college education there. Atche works construction, delivers food for food delivery applications, and works helping his community at a food pantry in Brooklyn. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
<p><span>HOMESTEAD, Fla. (January 20, 2021) Illegal immigrants cheered President Joe Biden’s plan to provide a path to U.S. citizenship for about 11 million illegal aliens without legal status, mixing hope with guarded optimism Wednesday amid a seismic shift in how the American government views and treats them.</span></p>