Advocacy groups and immigration attorneys warn that Biden’s overall success could be limited if he’s unable to tackle another problem that has been growing for years: the ever-growing case backlog in federal immigration courts. Credit: Eric Gay via AP POOL
In his first weeks in office, President Joe Biden has made his administration’s approach on immigration policy clear: reviewing or replacing four years of his predecessor’s hardline approaches.
In less than three weeks in office, Biden has sent to Congress a massive immigration reform bill that would provide a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants, issued executive orders to refortify the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and ordered a review of interior enforcement policies and the controversial Migrant Protection Protocols.
President Biden s early immigration overhaul has overlooked one growing problem: A massive court backlog
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Credit: Eric Gay via AP POOL
In his first weeks in office, President Joe Biden has made his administration’s approach on immigration policy clear: reviewing or replacing four years of his predecessor’s hardline approaches.
In less than three weeks in office, Biden has sent to Congress a massive immigration reform bill that would provide a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants, issued executive orders to refortify the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and ordered a review of interior enforcement policies and the controversial Migrant Protection Protocols.
Stuck in Mexico for the past year, asylum seekers at the Arizona border forged close ties. They may be severed under Biden Rafael Carranza, Arizona Republic
NOGALES, Mexico Horns blared from a speaker and filled the living room with banda music. Elena Ramirez kept a close eye on the stove, occasionally stirring the few dishes cooking on the burners.
Next to her, Antonia Castillo improvised, using two large metal containers and a heavy strainer to make coffee, straining the boiling water from container to container over the sink. Anytime before going out, she always says, Let s drink coffee. I m really gonna miss drinking coffee with her and sharing breakfast with her, Ramirez added.
Juan Crow Immigration Laws Mirror the Injustices of U.S. Crime Laws, Advocates Say
By Frances Madeson
On 1/19/21 at 7:40 PM EST
This story was co-published with Capital & Main.
Born a mile south of the U.S.-Mexico border in a nunneryin Nogales, Sonora, Alex Murillo came to Phoenix in 1978 as a baby in his mother s arms. But just after Christmas 2011, the U.S. Navy veteran was returned to Tijuana shackled at the wrists and ankles after serving 37 months for a cannabis bust. He thought that after he had done his time at California s Lompoc Federal Correctional Institution, he would go home to his two sons and two daughters, ages 5 to 14. Instead, he was processed for deportation directly from the prison, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has an on-site office.