Democrat Unveils Plan Relying on Biden Actions for Immigration Overhaul
- Senator Bob Menendez has recommended executive actions to address migration at the border in a more humane way since Congress was unlikely to pass legislation.
- Menendez introduced a framework to revamp immigration by creating paths to citizenship, boosting aid, increasing border funding, and targeting traffickers.
- Menendez's plan would establish an emergency office and secure borders without sacrificing obligations to asylum seekers though it needs Congress to raise work visas.
- Menendez unveiled a plan relying on executive actions to address Western migration by expanding legal paths, increasing border funds, expanding region aid for asylum, and fighting crime.
- Menendez's plan relies on executive actions and Congress for funding, not legislation, calls to increase UN refugee funds, takes aim at GOP policies relocating migrants without logistics.