President Joe Biden has undone some of his predecessor's malevolent immigration legacy with executive authority. But accomplishing the rest of his immigration agenda will require legislative action, which is why he has worked with congressional Democrats to craft the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021. There is much to like in the bill, which was unveiled in February and is being pushed in Congress. However, thanks to labor pressures, there are some unfortunate elements pertaining to guest worker programs for both low and high-skilled immigration that will sow the seeds for mischief by future Trumps.
Biden needs to rethink them pronto.
Within his first few days in office, Biden used executive means to scrap some of Trump's worst anti-immigration actions. He ended the "Muslim" travel ban, reinstated the DACA program that shielded DREAMers (those who have grown up in America after they were brought here without proper authorization as minors) from deportation, and revived the refugee program that Trump all but gutted. Then, last week, he lifted Trump's COVID-related ban on immigrant visas for the foreign spouses and children of Americans, the other child separation policy that few had heard about.
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