Biden Says He Will Grant Citizenship to Illegal Immigrants
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has announced that he will immediately give citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants once he gets into office.
Biden said that he will make a commitment in the first 100 days, adding that he will send an immigration bill to the United States that would open doors for citizenship for more than 11 undocumented immigrants.
"I will also be moving to do away with some of the I think very damaging executive orders that have significantly impacted on making the climate worse and making us less healthy," Biden was quoted on The Daily Wire report.
Biden has already vowed to increase the number of refugees that he will admit into the United States, which is from 15,000 under U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to 125,000.
Biden also promised to end the Trump administration's travel ban on nations that are considered to be rampant of terrorism.
However, granting citizenship to undocumented immigrants will depend on who controls the Senate, which will be decided in January.
This is because Georgia has two runoff elections. The Daily Wire reported that if Republicans will win just one of the two races, they will keep control of the Senate once Biden settles into the office.
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Democrats would need to win both races just to have a tie with Republicans.
Dems would also need all 50 of their senators to vote as one so the Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris could be the tie breaker.
However, despite Democrats winning, they would be faced with some opposition from their own party as some of the extreme proposals that have been floated on the political Left.
Democrat Senator Joe Manchin said earlier this month that he would be blocking proposed power grabs by his own party.
Manchin said that there are a lot of people that are concerned, adding that there is a lot of fear tactics that are being used right now.
Manchin said that if both the Georgia senators were elected from the Democratic party that would be both 50/50.
However, he explained that if one senator does not vote on the Democratic side, there will be no tie and there will be no bill.
Biden also promised to reinstate Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, according to a Time report.
DACA was imposed as an executive action during the Obama administration. It was designed to provide protection from deportation for approximately 650,000 people who arrived in the United States illegally as children.
Trump then revoked this action in 2017.
Around 56,000 people would be able to submit applications if Biden were to reinstate the program, according to the Migration Policy Institute.
Biden has also pledged to repel the so-called Muslim ban on his first day in the office.
Tom Wong, an assistant professor of political science at the University of California San Diego, said that ending the Muslim ban would noy only be a change to U.S. police.
Wong said that this would also signal a change in the nation's immigration priorities.
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