this is essentially just making it easier to get a green card. Legit good move.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The policy shift is a bold move for the Democratic president months before the November elections, and a rebuke to congressional Republicans who have ignored his calls to expand border security and to create a path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, many for decades.
On June 15, 2012, President Barack Obama said he would allow undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children to apply for work permits, a program that transformed hundreds of thousands of lives.
“It’s just too much risk for me to leave my wife, my son and everything we’ve established in the United States,” said Foday Turay, a 27-year-old immigrant from Sierra Leone who is married to a U.S. citizen and is among those invited to Biden’s announcement at the White House.
Some Democrats have soured on Biden as his early efforts to create a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants were eclipsed by record numbers of new migrants arriving at the U.S. southern border, spurring him to crack down on illegal crossings.
The Biden administration has granted temporary protected status to more than 1 million immigrants in the United States and allowed in hundreds of thousands from other groups fleeing violence or poverty abroad.
Democratic lawmakers and advocacy groups have urged Biden for months to expand relief for long-term undocumented immigrants, amid threats from his Republican rival, former president Donald Trump, that he would carry out mass deportations if elected in November.
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Yup, cuz that’ll make you less awful on immigration!
I mean, yeah? You can be cynical and say it’s timed to distract but this does make him better on immigration
There really shouldn’t be a need for penalties in the first place. This is just more boring “I don’t actually want to fix immigration, but I need to look like I am, so instead I’m going to do this not-even-half-measure to get some good headlines” bullshit.
Generally, spouses of citizens can apply to get a green card (and a k3 non-immigrant visa while that’s pending… but apparently that takes just as long… fuck our goverment.)
Or maybe a K3 should just be granted when somebody applies for a green card to begin with. ask them to check in with somebody once a month until a background check clears or something, and once it does, the K3 is conditional on the green card. You know. Let them become “productive members of society” and that bull shit.
And before somebody says ‘TeRrOrIsM!!!’ or something like that. these undocumented immigrants are already living here. Think about that. if they really were terrorists, do you think they’ll go to the immigration service and ask for citizenship, or a green card? and do you really think actual terrorists are going to bother with getting a k3/green card visa at all? Most are already citizens.
On the other hand, “perfect is the enemy of progress”. While this certainly doesn’t solve the issue, it is an (admittedly minor) improvement.
It’s not even close to what’s necessary.
I will say that the pbs article posted gives a better explanation- in that they are doing some of what I’m saying- it just waiving but actively ignoring penalties going forward- but that article is from undisclosed “sources” so I’ll have to wait to make final judgement.
In any case, it’s not progress when you consider how he’s gone so far to the right on every other aspect of immigration.
I’m not asking for perfect. I’m not even asking for good. I’m asking for sufficient, and on the whole, he ain’t.
