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WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The following statement was issued by Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American ImmigrationReform (FAIR), in response to yet another flurry of executive actions, triggering a review of how to increase legal and illegal immigration in the middle of a crisis with no end in sight.

Increasing Welfare State Through Potential Elimination of Public Charge:

"Protecting the interests of the American people by barring the admission of immigrants who are likely to become public charges those who are likely to become dependent on government welfare has been a cornerstone of U.S. immigration policy since 1882. As part of his 'America Last' immigration agenda, President Biden is gearing up to reverse existing policies that protect American taxpayers and doing so at a time when a raging pandemic is forcing many Americans to rely on social safety nets that can barely keep up with the demands being placed on them," charged Stein.

Family Reunification Task Force:

"Virtually all of the children who were separated from accompanying adults during the 2019 border surge have been reunited with their parents or legal guardians. The small number who remain separated are because the adults accompanying them were not their parents or guardians, or because their parents chose to leave them in the United States as unaccompanied minors rather than return to their home countries as a family unit. The situation of these children is tragic, but the fault lies with the adults who exploited or abandoned them, not with the policies of the United States," Stein said

"The administration's actions are an endorsement of the unbalanced and failed policy of mass family chain migration that dominates our legal immigration system and applies it to our policy of dealing with illegal immigration and human trafficking. Not only will people who immigrate here legally be entitled to reunite with family members they left behind, now illegal aliens will be able to do the same. We all support keeping families united, but there is nothing that says that reunification can only occur in this country," said Stein.

Supposedly Addressing the Root Causes of Migration:

"Today's declaration by the Biden administration that the answer to massive surges of people crossing our borders illegally is to 'address root causes of migration from Central America,' sets new standards for the high art of bureaucratic obfuscation and eloquently stated gibberish," declared Stein. "Hubris would be an inadequate description of the assertion that this country, which cannot address many of its own problems, is going to take on the task of solving Central America's, and perhaps the rest of the world's problems.

"In essence, Mr. Biden is saying that he has no intention of ever securing America's borders or preventing mass incursions of migrants, and that American taxpayers will continue to subsidize failing foreign economies and substandard living conditions through magnetic U.S. immigration policies.

"Additionally, while futilely attempting to address the root causes of migration in dozens of countries around the world, the Biden administration is ignoring, or exacerbating, the 'pull factors' over which it has full control. In the first weeks of his administration, President Biden has clearly signaled that sanctuary policies will be strengthened, access to public benefits will be increased, asylum fraud will be rewarded, and detentions and removals will all but cease."

More Asylum Seekers During a Global Pandemic:

"This executive order displays the same level of tone deafness seen in the previous immigration-related actions taken last week. Simply put, putting Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) on the chopping block in the middle of a pandemic is not in the national interest. American families have been put into lockdown for nearly a year now, hoping for a return to normalcy. It's also important to note that both the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) are discouraging traveling during the pandemic. Those seeking admission as asylum seekers into the U.S. should be asked to remain in place until this health crisis, soon to claim 500,000 American lives, passes."

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The politics of COVID-19 spending legislation is complicated. President Biden and former President Donald Trump, who don't agree on much, both pushed to get $2,000 direct payments to most Americans this winter, and the Republican governor of West Virginia is backing Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package while his state's Democratic senator, Joe Manchin, favors a smaller package. The White House is privately meeting with a group of Senate Republicans who proposed a $618 billion alternative package, The Associated Press reports, even as Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reject that amount as insufficient and urge Democrats to go big and go quickly. Biden and his advisers "publicly tout the virtues of bipartisan collaboration," but "they aren't pollyannaish about it," Sam Stein reports at Politico. "They know there is no recent history to suggest any such collaboration is coming.," but "inside the White House there is still some surprise that Republicans currently aren't more interested in working with them on COVID relief. Not because they believe Republicans philosophically support the bill, but because there are clear political incentives for them to do so." Biden and his aides have noted repeatedly that just because the budget reconciliation process would allow Democrats to pass much of the $1.9 trillion package without Republican support, Republicans can still vote for the package. If Democrats go the budget reconciliation route, the 10 Senate Republicans can either "oppose the measure without being able to stop it or work to shape it, pledge to vote for it, and get credit for the goodies inside it," Stein reports. "Put another way: Republicans could vote for a bill that includes billions of dollars of help for states, massive amounts of cash for vaccine distribution, and $1,400 stimulus check for most Americans. Or they could oppose it on grounds that the price tag is too steep, or the minimum wage hike is too high, or the process too rushed." And if they do that, a senior administration official told Stein, "they'll get no credit" for those $1,400 checks. Democrats only have the party-line option because they unexpectedly won both Senate seats in a Georgia runoff election, Stein notes, and one political "lesson from that episode is, quite bluntly: It's better to be on the side of giving people money." Trump understood that. Time will tell what Senate Republicans will decide. More stories from theweek.comMarjorie Taylor Greene is getting exactly what she wantsDemocrats may only have one chance to stop America from becoming a one-party stateStephen Bannon, pardoned by Trump, may now be charged over the same scheme in New York

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Witnessing Arizona turn its congressional representation to Democrat was electrifying to see. However, this was no accident: Latinos and other underrepresented groups in Arizona broke turnout records that favorably supported Democrats. As a Latino immigrant who has lived in Arizona since 4th grade, this feels like progress, considering we are not that far removed from the days when Joe Arpaios deputies raided our neighborhoods and armed citizens showed up at the border regularly.

While Mark Kellys victory in November does not equate to Democratic control over Arizona, it appears as if the Arizona Democratic Party finally understands that if it wants more victories, it must support the policies and changes of their most effective supporters the community organizations that push for progressive changes. That Democrats elected state Rep. Raquel Teran to be the partys next chairwoman signals that we have found a formula for success.

It is also time to seize victories at the national level. Immigration has always been a divisive topic in Arizona, from xenophobic laws targeting some of the most vulnerable folks in our state to producing advocates rise to national prominence. For that reason, Democrats in Congress must advocate for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented individuals by supporting a legislative bill.

President Joe Biden has indicated he is not going to make the same mistake Obama did when his party had complete control in D.C. and is proposing immigration reform now rather than waiting. However, we are facing one last barrier within the Democratic party: the filibuster.

Getting rid of the Senate filibuster is not an attack to the value of compromise, as some assert. Instead, it is paying respect for the communities that have been tormented for the last four years and are in urgent need of policy changes that will allow these people to continue to live their lives. I know this because, as a DACA recipient, I am familiar with these struggles and am still hindered by them.

I welcome Kelly to his new role and will continue to cheer for the work of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. But immigration reform for undocumented individuals is a must, and for that reason Democrats need to remove the Senate filibuster. This is not a time for Democrats to be wasting trying to be proper in a country that, for the last four years (and many other times before that), never prioritized being proper. Instead, lets be proper by providing answers to the people that propel the Democratic Party and who want to solve problems.

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Migrants are hoping President Joe Biden will change immigration policies and provide them a better path to come into the U.S. Biden has already issued a wave of executive orders on immigration and will sign more on Friday, including orders to extend legal immigration, restore the asylum system and enhance the refugee processing system. Officials are afraid that these policy changes could cause a large group of migrants to arrive at the southern border. But even after just a week in office, some migrants have grown impatient as Biden fails to close detention camps over the southern border and overturn more of former President Donald Trumps migration policies. The New York Times

In other national immigration news

James McHenry, who had the top position at the Executive Office for Immigration Review during the Trump administration, will resign from his role at the Justice Department branch this weekend. The Biden administration has been replacing officials who played a role in former President Donald Trumps immigration restrictions. Since 2017, McHenry has restricted immigration judges ability to allow asylum, including stripping their ability to close cases and suspend deportation proceedings for certain immigrants. These decisions have led the immigration court backlog to top 1.3 million cases as of last month. Jean King, who serves as the chief administrative law judge, will replace McHenry. CBS News

U.S. immigration authorities have reunited Vladimir Fardin, a nine-year-old Haitian boy, with his family after separating him from his older brother Christian Laporte. U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained the brothers when they landed at San Francisco International Airport. CBP officers took away their visas because Laporte was missing paperwork and Fardin violated his tourist visa for previously attending school in the U.S. Advocates and attorneys tried to get Fardin reunited with his family, yet faced difficulty when the Office of Refugee Resettlement said he had to remain in a foster home to complete a 14-day quarantine. BuzzFeed News

Edisnoy Casals-Socarras and seven others filed a writ of habeas corpus in federal court to push ICE to release them from Stewart Detention Center in Georgia, which is run by the private prison company CoreCivic. The men claimed their detention violates a Supreme Court decision that blocked ICE from detaining individuals it is unable to deport for over six months and who do not pose a threat to public safety. According to Danielle Bennett, an ICE spokesperson, there are 1,091 Cubans held in detention, 680 of whom have deportation orders. ICE detained 1,805 Cubans in late September, which means hundreds of Cubans were released over the last few months. Cuba has only accepted one deportation flight since February. MotherJones

Felipe Ortega was on his way to work when immigration agents stopped his car in Midland, Texas. They informed him he had an outstanding deportation order from 15 years ago. He was then handcuffed, chained at the waist and feet, and put in a van that was going to Mexico during Bidens inauguration. By 6:30 p.m. that same day, Ortega was sent across the international bridge at El Paso and returned to Mexico for the first time in 30 years. This all happened about 24 hours before Biden signed an executive order that could have protected Ortega. But even with Bidens initial immigration changes, there is no guarantee of Ortegas return. Reuters

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Protesters hold up signs during a rally supporting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, outside the White House on Sept. 5, 2017. Biden has committed to preserving fortifying DACA during his term.

For Northwestern freshman and first-generation citizen Marcos Sanchez, the Biden administrations halt to the construction of the United States-Mexico border wall is representative of a positive shift from the Trump administrations harsh anti-migrant rhetoric.

President Biden halted construction of the $11 billion border wall Jan. 20, one of more than 30 executive orders he has signed since his inauguration aimed at reversing Trump-era policies and reforming other immigration policies.

Its just seeing people and your administration finally facing immigration as more of a humanitarian issue than like a disease, Sanchez said. Its just really comforting.

SESP freshman Freskida Sejdiu, also a first-generation citizen, echoed Sanchezs sentiment and said she is optimistic about his policies. As members of her family are also seeking citizenship, Sejdiu said it is comforting to know that they have a president who wont deport them.

Democrats have been talking about (it) for years, and hes finally the one to get to it, she said.

On his first day in office, Biden signed several other executive orders, including lifted a travel ban restricting people from predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. He also overruled Trumps previous order to prioritize deportations of illegal immigrants in America, and has proposed a bill to make the path to citizenship easier for immigrants and members of the DACA community.

Biden also initiated a 100-day moratorium on deportations and halted the Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as the Remain in Mexico order, that has kept thousands from seeking asylum in the U.S.

Students like Sejdiu and Mccormick freshman Kobe Chamba said they are still trying to remain realistic as they wait for more change during Bidens presidency.

Its a pleasant surprise, but Im not 100 percent satisfied, Chamba said.

Political science Prof. Jacqueline Stevens said it will be important to look out for legislation not just executive orders Biden may implement to reform immigration policies in the United States.

These changes, however, will not come easily, she said, citing the Trump administrations efforts to barricade immigration reform efforts..

Theres a whole rulemaking comment process that has to be followed before you can unsnarl that stuff, Stevens said. Its gonna take a lot of bandwidth to just take care of rolling back the policies that Trump put in place, leaving aside actually trying to restart conversations about comprehensive immigration reform.

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