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发帖数: 43471 | 1 In the first 100 days, a Biden Administration will:
Immediately reverse the Trump Administration’s cruel and senseless policies
that separate parents from their children at our border, including ending
the prosecution of parents for minor immigration violations as an
intimidation tactic, and prioritize the reunification of any children still
separated from their families.
End Trump’s detrimental asylum policies. The Statue of Liberty has long
been a beacon to people “yearning to breathe free” around the world —
including asylum-seekers and refugees. But the Trump Administration has
worked against this tradition to drastically restrict access to asylum in
the U.S., including imposing additional restrictions on anyone traveling
through Mexico or Guatemala; attempting to prevent victims of gang and
domestic violence from receiving asylum; systematically prosecuting adult
asylum seekers for misdemeanor illegal entry; and severely limiting the
ability of members of the LGBTQ community, an especially vulnerable group in
many parts of the world, from qualifying for asylum as members of a “
particular social group.” Biden will end these policies, starting with
Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocols, and restore our asylum laws so that
they do what they should be designed to do–protect people fleeing
persecution and who cannot return home safely.
End the mismanagement of the asylum system, which fuels violence and chaos
at the border. Trump’s disastrous policy of “metering” — limiting the
number of asylum applications accepted each day — forces people seeking
asylum to wait on the streets in often dangerous Mexican border towns for
weeks before they are permitted to apply. It has created a horrifying
ecosystem of violence and exploitation, with cartels kidnapping, violently
assaulting, and extorting migrants. Biden will direct the necessary
resources to ensure asylum applications are processed fairly and efficiently
, while treating families and children with compassion and sensitivity.
Surge humanitarian resources to the border and foster public-private
initiatives. Humanitarian needs are best met through a network of
organizations, such as faith-based shelters, non-governmental aid
organizations, legal non-profits, and refugee assistance agencies working
together. Biden will dramatically increase U.S. government resources to
support migrants awaiting assessment of their asylum claims and to the
organizations providing for their needs.
End prolonged detention and reinvest in a case management program. The Trump
Administration has sought to circumvent the Flores agreement and hold
children in detention indefinitely. But proven alternatives to detention and
non-profit case management programs, which support migrants as they
navigate their legal obligations, are the best way to ensure that they
attend all required immigration appointments. These programs also enable
migrants to live in dignity and safety while awaiting their court hearings–
facilitating things like doctor visits, social services, and school
enrollment for children. Evidence shows that these programs are highly
effective and are far less expensive and punitive than detaining families.
Biden will codify protections to safeguard children to make sure their
treatment is consistent with their best interest and invest in community-
based case management programs, including those supported by faith-based
organizations such as Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services, to move
migrants into safe environments as quickly as possible.
Reverse Trump’s public charge rule, which runs counter to our values as
Americans and the history of our nation. Allowing immigration officials to
make an individual’s ability to receive a visa or gain permanent residency
contingent on their use of government services such as SNAP benefits or
Medicaid, their household income, and other discriminatory criteria
undermines America’s character as land of opportunity that is open and
welcoming to all, not just the wealthy.
End the so-called National Emergency that siphons federal dollars from the
Department of Defense to build a wall. Building a wall will do little to
deter criminals and cartels seeking to exploit our borders. Instead of
stealing resources from schools for military children and recovery efforts
in Puerto Rico, Biden will direct federal resources to smart border
enforcement efforts, like investments in improving screening infrastructure
at our ports of entry, that will actually keep America safer.
Protect Dreamers and their families. The Obama-Biden Administration created
DACA in 2012 to protect “Dreamers,” undocumented immigrants who were
brought to the U.S. as children, obeyed the law once here, and stayed in
school or enlisted in the military. DACA provided young people who passed a
background check and application process with temporary work permits and
protection from deportation. The Trump Administration made the cruel and
counterproductive decision to terminate DACA, throwing into turmoil the
lives of millions of Dreamers. Dreamers and their parents should have a
roadmap to citizenship through legislative immigration reform. But in the
meantime, Biden will remove the uncertainty for Dreamers by reinstating the
DACA program, and he will explore all legal options to protect their
families from inhumane separation. Biden will also ensure Dreamers are
eligible for federal student aid (loans, Pell grants) and are included in
his proposals to provide access to community college without debt and invest
in HBCU/Hispanic Serving Institution/Minority Serving Institutions, which
will help Dreamers contribute even more to our economy.
Rescind the un-American travel and refugee bans, also referred to as “
Muslim bans.” The Trump Administration’s anti-Muslim bias hurts our
economy, betrays our values, and can serve as a powerful terrorist
recruiting tool. Prohibiting Muslims from entering the country is morally
wrong, and there is no intelligence or evidence that suggests it makes our
nation more secure. It is yet another abuse of power by the Trump
Administration designed to target primarily black and brown immigrants.
Biden will immediately rescind the “Muslim bans.”
Order an immediate review of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for vulnerable
populations who cannot find safety in their countries ripped apart by
violence or disaster. The Trump Administration’s politically-motivated
decisions to rescind protected status for hundreds of thousands of people
fleeing countries impacted by war and natural disasters — without regard
for current country conditions — is a recipe for disaster. Biden will
protect TPS and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) holders from being
returned to countries that are unsafe. TPS/DED holders who have been in the
country for an extended period of time and built lives in the U.S. will also
be offered a path to citizenship through legislative immigration reform.
Restore sensible enforcement priorities. Targeting people who have never
been convicted of a serious criminal offense and who have lived, worked, and
contributed to our economy and our communities for decades is the
definition of counterproductive. Biden will direct enforcement efforts
toward threats to public safety and national security, while ensuring that
individuals are treated with the due process to which they are entitled and
their human rights are protected. President Biden will end workplace raids
to ensure that threats based on workers’ status do not interfere with their
ability to organize and improve their wages and working conditions. He will
also protect sensitive locations from immigration enforcement actions. No
one should be afraid to seek medical attention, go to school, their job, or
their place of worship for fear of an immigration enforcement action.
Ensure that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) personnel abide by professional standards and are held
accountable for inhumane treatment. Biden will increase resources for
training and demand transparency in and independent oversight over ICE and
CBP’s activities. Under a Biden Administration, there will be responsible,
Senate-confirmed professionals leading these agencies, and they will answer
directly to the president.
Protect and expand opportunities for people who risked their lives in
military service. Biden will not target the men and women who served in
uniform, or their families, for deportation. He will also direct the
Secretary of Homeland Security to create a parole process for veterans
deported by the Trump Administration, to reunite them with their families
and military colleagues in the U.S.
Restore and defend the naturalization process for green card holders. A
Biden Administration will streamline and improve the naturalization process
to make it more accessible to qualified green card holders. The Trump
Administration has made it far too difficult for qualifying green card
holders to obtain citizenship. Quite simply, this is wrong. Biden will
restore faith in the citizenship process by removing roadblocks to
naturalization and obtaining the right to vote, addressing the application
backlog by prioritizing the adjudication workstream and ensuring
applications are processed quickly, and rejecting the imposition of
unreasonable fees.
Revitalize the Task Force on New Americans and boost our economy by
prioritizing integration, promoting immigrant entrepreneurship, increasing
access to language instruction, and promoting civil engagement. Integrating
the talents of new immigrants into our communities and helping them to
thrive enriches our nation and our economy. Under President Biden, the Task
Force on New Americans will once more coordinate federal agencies and
resources to provide community support across a range of issues, including
language learning, entrepreneurship and financial management, workforce
training, and guidance on the naturalization process.
Convene a regional meeting of leaders, including from El Salvador, Guatemala
, Honduras, Mexico, and Canada, to address the factors driving migration and
to propose a regional resettlement solution. Migration out of the Northern
Triangle has impacted more countries than just the U.S. Belize, Costa Rica,
Mexico, and others have also seen growing numbers fleeing violence and a
lack of opportunity. A regional problem requires a regional solution, so
Biden will immediately convene regional partners to institute a
comprehensive, multi-national plan to address the challenges.
Modernize America’s Immigration System
As president, Biden will commit significant political capital to finally
deliver legislative immigration reform to ensure that the U.S. remains open
and welcoming to people from every part of the world–and to bring
hardworking people who have enriched our communities and our country, in
some cases for decades, out of the shadows. This is not just of concern to
Latino communities, this touches families of every heritage and background.
There are approximately 1.7 million undocumented immigrants from Asia in the
U.S., as well as hundreds of thousands from Europe, the Middle East, Africa
, and the Caribbean. Biden will immediately begin working with Congress to
modernize our system, with a priority on keeping families together by
providing a roadmap to citizenship for nearly 11 million undocumented
immigrants; growing our economy and expanding economic opportunity across
the country by improving and increasing opportunities for legal immigration;
and preserve the longstanding directive of our immigration system to
reunite families and enhance our diversity.
Immigrants are essential to the strength of our country and the U.S. economy
. When immigrants choose to come to the U.S., they bring their unique
traditions and contributions to the rich cultural tapestry of our country.
They are also a key driver of economic growth. The Congressional Budget
Office found that the 2013 comprehensive immigration package would have,
over time, increased the size of the economy by more than 5 percent.
Currently, we are not taking advantage of America’s ability to attract the
best and brightest workers in the world. A modern immigration system must
allow our economy to grow, while protecting the rights, wages, and working
conditions of all workers, and holding employers accountable if they don’t
play by the rules. Immigrant rights and worker rights are deeply connected.
We must ensure that every worker is protected, can join a union, and can
exercise their labor rights–regardless of immigration status–for the
safety of all workers.
Joe Biden will work with Congress to pass legislation that:
Creates a roadmap to citizenship for the nearly 11 million people who have
been living in and strengthening our country for years. These are our
mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters. They are our neighbors, co-workers,
and members of our congregations and Little League teams. They contribute
in countless ways to our communities, workforce, and economy. In 2015, the
IRS collected $23.6 billion from 4.4 million workers without Social Security
numbers–many of whom were undocumented. Biden will aggressively advocate
for legislation that creates a clear roadmap to legal status and citizenship
for unauthorized immigrants who register, are up-to-date on their taxes,
and have passed a background check.
Reforms the visa program for temporary workers in select industries. A
collection of industries depend on seasonal workers, or workers who only
seek to be in the U.S. for a short time. The current system for
accommodating these workers is cumbersome, bureaucratic, and inflexible—
driving up incentives to circumvent the system by hiring undocumented
laborers and allowing the employers who control the visa to pay artificially
low wages. Biden will work with Congress to reform the current system of
temporary work visas to allow workers in these select industries to switch
jobs, while certifying the labor market’s need for foreign workers.
Employers should be able to supply data showing a lack of labor availability
and the harm that would result if temporary workers were unavailable. This
flexibility, coupled with strong safeguards that require employers to pay a
fair calculation of the prevailing wage and ensure the right of all workers
to join a union and exercise their labor rights, will help meet the needs of
domestic employers, sustain higher wages for American workers and foreign
workers alike, incentivize workers and employers to operate within legal
channels, prevent exploitation of temporary workers, and boost local
economies.
Reforms the temporary visa system. High skilled temporary visas should not
be used to disincentivize recruiting workers already in the U.S. for in-
demand occupations. An immigration system that crowds out high-skilled
workers in favor of only entry level wages and skills threatens American
innovation and competitiveness. Biden will work with Congress to first
reform temporary visas to establish a wage-based allocation process and
establish enforcement mechanisms to ensure they are aligned with the labor
market and not used to undermine wages. Then, Biden will support expanding
the number of high-skilled visas and eliminating the limits on employment-
based visas by country, which create unacceptably long backlogs.
Provides a path to legalization for agricultural workers who have worked for
years on U.S. farms and continue to work in agriculture. Securing adequate,
seasonal help in the agricultural sector can be inefficient and difficult
to navigate, causing people to avoid or exploit the system, even when jobs
remain unfilled. 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.S. soil is critically
important, but the current system is poorly designed with per-country caps
that prevent applications from being approved in a timely fashion. 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 50,000 immigrants from underrepresented countries to the U.S.
each year. He has disparaged the system as a “horror show” and repeatedly
misrepresents how the lottery is administered, while demonizing and
insulting with racist overtones those who receive the visas. 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.S. citizens.
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 140,000 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.S.
unemployment. He will also exempt from any cap recent graduates of PhD
programs in STEM fields in the U.S. who are poised to make some of the most
important contributions to the world economy. Biden believes that foreign
graduates of a U.S. doctoral program should be given a green card with their
degree and that losing these highly trained workers to foreign economies is
a disservice to our own economic competitiveness.
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.S. cities, and between rural communities and urban
areas, is one of the great imbalances of today’s economy. 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. As president, Biden will support a program to allow any
county or municipal executive of a large or midsize county or city to
petition for additional immigrant visas to support the region’s economic
development strategy, provided employers in those regions certify there are
available jobs, and that there are no workers to fill them. 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. The U.S.
immigration system must guard against economy-wide wage cuts due to
exploitation of foreign workers by unscrupulous employers who undercut the
system by hiring immigrant workers below the market rate or go outside the
immigration system to find workers. Biden will work with Congress to ensure
that employers are not taking advantage of immigrant workers and that U.S.
citizen workers are not being undercut by employers who don’t play by the
rules. Biden will also work to ensure employers have the right tools to
certify their workers’ employment status and will restore the focus on
abusive employers instead of on the vulnerable workers they are exploiting.
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. The Obama-
Biden Administration expanded the U Visa program to certain workplace crimes
. 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. Under the Trump
Administration, there are unacceptable processing delays for adjudicating
applications for VAWA self-petitions, U-visas, and T-visas. As president,
Biden will end these delays and give victims the security and certainty they
need. And, Biden will triple the current cap of 10,000 on U-visas; this cap
is insufficient to meet the dire needs of victims and hinders our public
safety. | d********f
发帖数: 43471 | 2 某位斑竹请封我。谢谢
policies
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【在 d********f 的大作中提到】
: In the first 100 days, a Biden Administration will:
: Immediately reverse the Trump Administration’s cruel and senseless policies
: that separate parents from their children at our border, including ending
: the prosecution of parents for minor immigration violations as an
: intimidation tactic, and prioritize the reunification of any children still
: separated from their families.
: End Trump’s detrimental asylum policies. The Statue of Liberty has long
: been a beacon to people “yearning to breathe free” around the world —
: including asylum-seekers and refugees. But the Trump Administration has
: worked against this tradition to drastically restrict access to asylum in
| w*********o
发帖数: 3030 | 3 Why, so you will be able to cry how you were mistreated because of your love
for Trump and GOP? You still haven't found any chinese to backstab to
please your new master yet?
I am pretty sure anyone who can go through EB2 route can at least read
English. As for if someone still have the capability of thinking by
themselves and comprehend complicated immigration policies, that's another
matter.
【在 d********f 的大作中提到】
: 某位斑竹请封我。谢谢
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: policies
: still
| d********f
发帖数: 43471 | 4 您这英文还是孔子学院再进修一下？
love
【在 w*********o 的大作中提到】
: Why, so you will be able to cry how you were mistreated because of your love
: for Trump and GOP? You still haven't found any chinese to backstab to
: please your new master yet?
: I am pretty sure anyone who can go through EB2 route can at least read
: English. As for if someone still have the capability of thinking by
: themselves and comprehend complicated immigration policies, that's another
: matter.
| w*********o
发帖数: 3030 | 5 Come on. Why are you so sensitive about English?
I saw that response again and again from IDs who somehow thinks they are the
smartest of the all and their unhappiness (or failure?) in life is because
somehow they are constantly being wronged by whoever and whatever.
【在 d********f 的大作中提到】
: 您这英文还是孔子学院再进修一下？
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: love
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