Biden supports compromise legislation between farmworkers and the agricultural sector that will provide legal status based on prior agricultural work history, and a faster-track to a green card and ultimately citizenship.
Biden also will ensure labor and safety rules, including overtime, humane living conditions, and protection from pesticide and heat exposure, are enforced with respect to these particularly vulnerable working people. Rejects the false choice between employment-based and family-based immigration. Each day, in every state in the country, millions of immigrants granted a visa based on family ties make valuable contributions to our country and economy.
Keeping families together and allowing eligible immigrants to join their American relatives on U. That means approved applicants may wait decades to be reunited with their families.
As president, Biden will support family-based immigration by preserving family unification as a foundation of our immigration system; by allowing any approved applicant to receive a temporary non-immigrant visa until the permanent visa is processed; and by supporting legislation that treats the spouse and children of green card holders as the immediate relatives they are, exempting them from caps, and allowing parents to bring their minor children with them at the time they immigrate.
Preserves preferences for diversity in the current system. Trump has set his sights on abolishing the Diversity Visa lottery. This is a program that brings up to 50, immigrants from underrepresented countries to the U. Diversity preferences are essential to preserving a robust and vibrant immigration system. As president, Biden will reaffirm our core values and preserve the critical role of diversity preferences to ensure immigrants everywhere have the chance to legally become U.
Increases the number of visas offered for permanent, work-based immigration based on macroeconomic conditions. Currently, the number of employment-based visas is capped at , each year, without the ability to be responsive to the state of the labor market or demands from domestic employers. As president, Biden will work with Congress to increase the number of visas awarded for permanent, employment-based immigration—and promote mechanisms to temporarily reduce the number of visas during times of high U.
Biden believes that foreign graduates of a U. Creates a new visa category to allow cities and counties to petition for higher levels of immigrants to support their growth. The disparity in economic growth between U. Some cities and many rural communities struggle with shrinking populations, an erosion of economic opportunity, and local businesses that face unique challenges. Others simply struggle to attract a productive workforce and innovative entrepreneurs.
Holders of these visas would be required to work and reside in the city or county that petitioned for them, and would be subject to the same certification protections as other employment-based immigrants.
Enforces the rules to protect American and foreign workers alike. Biden will work with Congress to ensure that employers are not taking advantage of immigrant workers and that U. Expands protections for undocumented immigrants who report labor violations.
When undocumented immigrants are victims of serious crimes and help in the investigation of those crimes, they become eligible for U Visas. As president, Biden will further extend these protections to victims of any workplace violations of federal, state, or local labor law by securing passage of the POWER Act. And, a Biden Administration will ensure that workers on temporary visas are protected so that they are able to exercise the labor rights to which they are entitled.
Increases visas for domestic violence survivors. As president, Biden will end these delays and give victims the security and certainty they need. And, Biden will triple the current cap of 10, on U-visas; this cap is insufficient to meet the dire needs of victims and hinders our public safety. Welcome Immigrants in our Communities Immigrants bring tremendous economic, cultural, and social value to their new communities.
As president, Biden will: Marshal federal resources, through the reestablishment of the Task Force for New Americans, to support community efforts to welcome immigrants. Concrete efforts will most often happen within individual communities, but federal agencies have tremendous information and resources to support community-led efforts. Push to repeal extreme, anti-immigrant state laws that have a chilling effect on the ability of immigrant domestic violence, sexual assault survivors, and other victims of crimes to seek safety and justice.
Some state laws drive victims and witnesses into the shadows and threaten public safety. As documented in a recent national survey , immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and trafficking are increasingly afraid to contact police, pursue civil or criminal cases, or go to court to seek safety. As president, Biden will work in partnership with cities, states, nonprofits, and law enforcement to build trust and push for states to repeal the laws that chill the reporting of domestic violence incidents and threaten public safety.
Expand long overdue rights to farmworkers and domestic workers. When Congress extended labor rights and protections to workers, farmworkers and domestic workers — who are disproportionately immigrants and people of color — were left out.
Still today, millions of these workers are not fully protected under federal labor law. As president, Biden will: Surge asylum officers to efficiently review the cases of recent border crossers and keep cases with positive credible-fear findings with the Asylum Division. This change, recommended by the non-partisan Migration Policy Institute, will eliminate duplication of resources and fact-finding while reviewing the merit of asylum cases and alleviate the burden on the overwhelmed immigration courts.
Not everyone leaving Central America is an asylum applicant, but many are, and each case should be reviewed fairly and in full accordance with the law. Migrants who qualify for an asylum claim will be admitted to the country through an orderly process and connected with resources that will help them care for themselves. Migrants who do not qualify will have the opportunity to make their claim before an immigration judge, but if they are unable to satisfy the court, the government will help facilitate their successful reintegration into their home countries.
Restore asylum eligibility for domestic violence survivors. Under the Biden Administration, the U. Department of Justice will reinstate explicit asylum protections — rescinded by the Trump Administration —for domestic violence and sexual violence survivors whose home governments cannot or will not protect them. Apply U. Double the number of immigration judges, court staff, and interpreters. There is a backlog of more than one million immigration cases in the administrative system resulting in applicants often waiting years before their cases are heard.
This increase in vital immigration court staffing will support timely and fair adjudications for asylum and other cases. End for-profit detention centers. No business should profit from the suffering of desperate people fleeing violence. Biden will ensure that facilities that temporarily house migrants seeking asylum are held to the highest standards of care and prioritize the safety and dignity of families above all. Increase the number of refugees we welcome into the country.
With more than 70 million displaced people in the world today, this is a moment that demands American leadership. Offering hope and safe haven to refugees is part of who we are as a country. As a senator, Joe Biden co-sponsored the legislation creating our refugee program, which Trump has steadily decimated. His Administration has reduced the refugee resettlement ceiling to its lowest levels in decades and slammed the door on thousands of individuals suffering persecution, many of whom face threats of violence or even death in their home countries.
Biden embraces the core values that have made us who we are and will prioritize restoring refugee admissions in line with our historic practice under both Democratic and Republican Administrations. He will set the annual global refugee admissions cap to ,, and seek to raise it over time commensurate with our responsibility, our values, and the unprecedented global need. Tackle the Root Causes of Migration The worst place to deal with irregular migration is at our own border. As president, Biden will pursue a comprehensive strategy to strengthen the security and prosperity of Central America in partnership with the people of the region that : Addresses the root causes of migration by fostering greater security, economic development, and respect for the rule of law in Central America.
The Northern Triangle is riven by violence, plagued by narco-trafficking, and held in fear by criminal organizations wielding military-grade weapons, and it is particularly dangerous for women and children.
This support will also be supplemented by international donors and regional partners. Strengthen regional humanitarian responses. The inability of the Northern Triangle countries to stem the violence and terror in the region has created a regional refugee challenge. Almost every country in the region is receiving refugees and struggling to protect and care for children and families. As a leader in the region, the U.
Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Immigration reform helped ramp up deportations, secured funds for a longer border wall, and suspended the entry of most new immigrants because of COVID The Trump administration reduced the number of undocumented immigrants in the United States—a group that totaled roughly Indeed, former President Trump repeatedly drove home the idea, in both direct and subtle ways, that the job market is essentially a zero-sum game—Honduran and Mexican immigrants who cross onto U.
The thinking of former President Trump and his supporters set up one of the biggest ideological battlefronts of the presidential election. Even President Joe Biden, who served as vice president when close to 3 million undocumented immigrants were deported, was quick to play up their positive contributions to society.
On the surface, this seems like a pretty logical conclusion for a cohort that represents nearly 11 million people. But immigration advocates said this argument ignores the dynamic nature of the job market.
Some researchers believe mass deportation would therefore shrink overall economic output. And because birthrates are dropping in the U. The basic rules of supply and demand would seem to support that claim. When the number of workers goes up, the amount companies have to pay presumably goes down.
Researchers Gianmarco Ottaviano and Giovanni Peri actually found that in the long run, increased immigration has a very small positive impact, 0. But even if pay for these jobs were to decrease, that might not be the case in every field. Supporters of immigration reform say that the availability of more workers is a boon for businesses, which benefit from lower production costs.
Therefore, reform could presumably boost wages, at least marginally, for jobs that require a college degree. According to one analysis, the fiscal impacts of immigrants are generally positive at the federal level when projected over a future time horizon of 75 years.
One of the most contentious questions is what effect illegal immigration has on government coffers. A path to citizenship for workers who are already in the country means many of them would contribute federal and state income taxes for the first time. Rector and Hall conclude that the 4. But a report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine paints a very different picture. Using data from , the authors agree that first-generation immigrants cost the government more on a per-capita basis than citizens born in the U.
However, the NAS found that that their children are actually less of a drag on the federal and local budgets than their peers. The result: These individuals tend to pay far more into the system than they pull out in benefits. Former President Trump energized his Republican base with his get-tough approach to immigration, arguing that unlawful residents are an unmitigated drain on the American economy.
However, those who cross into the U. Indeed, some research indicates they actually create more job opportunities than they take. While some studies have shown that illegal immigration suppresses wages in low-skill segments of the workforce, the effect over time, if any, appears to be minimal. And while first-generation immigrants may cost the government more than native-born workers because of their lower incomes, many pay far more into Social Security than they receive.
They also add younger workers to the nation's aging labor force. Labor mobility has economic effects in a variety of directions. We also have a responsibility to ensure that our immigration laws are being enforced. The death of Kathryn Kate Steinle—who was killed by an illegal immigrant who had previously been convicted for seven felonies and had been previously deported five times—shows when local officials ignore federal immigration law and shield illegal immigrants from deportation, Americans are put at risk.
I have met with numerous Arkansas families who have personally been impacted by criminal activity of illegal immigrants. We simply must act. While national security must be the top priority when reforming our immigration system, the economic security of American citizens must also be protected.
That is why I support efforts to hold employers accountable to ensure they are hiring legal workers and oppose efforts to provide amnesty to illegal immigrants. We are a nation of immigrants and must remain welcoming to those who want to achieve the American Dream.
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