Joe Biden will put in place regularization measures which could benefit hundreds of thousands of people, the White House announced this Tuesday, June 18, while immigration is a major subject of the presidential campaign in the United States.
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This is a politically delicate issue for the Democratic president, regularly accused of laxity in this area by the one he will face in the November election, his Republican predecessor. Donald Trumpwith very virulent anti-immigration rhetoric.
Joe Biden recently announced a very clear tightening of its migration policy, to deal with the arrivals of migrants to the border with Mexico. But the 81-year-old Democrat, keen not to alienate progressive voters or voters of foreign origin, at the same time praises the benefits of regulated immigration, through measures such as those announced this Tuesday, June 18.
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Immigrant spouses of American citizens
To obtain naturalization in the United States, marrying an American citizen is the quickest route. But when you enter the country illegally, it turns into an administrative obstacle course. Federal law requires you to leave the country to make an official application abroad and this can take years. Unthinkable for those who fled their country of origin and built a life, a family in the United States. What Joe Biden wants to allow is to put an end to this requirement
The American president intends to facilitate the issuance of residence permits and work permits to immigrant spouses of American citizens and their children, according to a press release from the American executive.
“ This measure will protect approximately half a million spouses of American citizens, and approximately 50,000 immigrant children under the age of 21. », According to the White House. Joe Biden also wants to speed up the work visa procedure for certain immigrants who have obtained a higher education diploma in the United States and have received a job offer in the country.
The measure will apply in particular to beneficiaries of a program protecting immigrant minors, implemented in 2012 when Barack Obama was president and whose twelfth anniversary Joe Biden will celebrate Tuesday at the White House.
The Democrat’s campaign team also used this anniversary to broadcast a video in which beneficiaries of this program, known in the United States as ” Dreamers », attack Donald Trump’s anti-immigration positions in English and Spanish.
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The former president wants to organize, in the event of his return to the White House, mass deportations of illegal immigrants. He also accused migrants “ to poison the blood ” from the country.