Biden says Dreamers should be granted citizenship immediately

[DonViejo]

Politics Jun 24, 2019 8:30 AM EDT

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, unveiling his immigration policy outline ahead of the first 2020 debates , is calling for Congress to grant citizenship immediately to more than 800,000 U.S. residents who were brought to the country illegally as children.

The former vice president and Democratic polling leader unveiled some of his immigration priorities on Monday in a newspaper op-ed that blisters President Donald Trump for an “assault on the dignity” of the Latino community through policies and rhetoric designed to “scare voters” in 2020.

“Trump repeatedly invokes racist invective to describe anyone south of the Rio Grande,” Biden writes, noting “horrifying scenes … of kids being kept in cages” and other “actions that subvert our American values and our ability to lead on the global stage.”

Biden, who launched his 2020 campaign in April, calls for streamlining the asylum system for migrants and spending more on electronic security at U.S. borders rather than Trump’s proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall. And he blasts Trump’s latest threats of mass deportation and his decision to cut aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, three Central American nations that are sources of the increasing wave of migrants to the U.S. border.

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[MineralMan]

1. Now there's a good idea!

How simple...

[Mr.Bill]

2. Actually, while a good idea,

it's not so simple if it has to get through Moscow Mitch and the republican Senate.

[IronLionZion]

3. I hope Dems take the Senate this time

and our party should have a plan to neutralize Moscow Mitch somehow

[PatSeg]

11. I was thinking the same thing

We need to take back the senate and Mitch needs to be either gone or made powerless.

[MineralMan]

4. All the more reason to make regaining a majority in the Senate

should be a major goal in 2020.

[Mr.Bill]

5. Yes. Every candidate needs to be

talking about this every day. Too many candidates are promising things that absolutely will not happen if we don't take the Senate.

[MineralMan]

6. It's not just the candidates who need to do that.

We ALL need to do that, as we work to convince every last possible voter to turn out and vote for the Democrats on their ballots. We're the ones who can make that happen. The candidates can't do it alone.

[Nasruddin]

9. The Senate is it

My opinion: It's more important to gain control of the Senate than it is to win the presidency.

The way our messed up system works, the president is doing nothing other than talking unless the Senate says yes.
The House can fuss and shout all it wants, but nothing happens until the Senate says yes.

We should have learned this from the last 4 years of McConnell rule.

We need to change this, but that's how the system works right now.

[Tarheel_Dem]

7. Excellent!

[Scurrilous]

8. K&R

[RobertDevereaux]

10. Yes, ALL our candidates must embrace this position!

[Wounded Bear]

12. An idea whose time is way past due...