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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Joe Biden’s Path to Citizenship for Undocumented Spouses of U.S. Citizens

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The president takes executive action to offer legal status to 500,000 people who entered the country illegally but married U.S. citizens. How much does Biden's order weaken deterrence for future migrants, is it vulnerable to legal challenge as an abuse of discretion, and does such "pen and phone" governance make real immigration legislation less likely, by letting Congress off the hook? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal,

0:20.0

this is Potomac Watch.

0:24.0

President Biden announces executive action

0:26.9

to grant legal status and a pathway to citizenship

0:29.7

to illegal aliens who cross the border

0:31.7

and then married US citizens, about 500,000 people in all.

0:36.1

Is this good policy? Is it legal? And is it an overstepping of the President's role in the

0:40.8

US system?

0:41.8

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are

0:45.1

joined today by my colleague columnist Kim Strassal. On Tuesday, the president was at an

0:50.8

event celebrating the 12- year anniversary of President Obama's

0:55.0

policy of deferred action for childhood arrivals or DACA. That's the policy that

1:01.0

shields dreamers so-called who were brought to this country over the border

1:05.3

through no fault of their own when they were kids and many have no memory of that journey or even

1:11.1

another country and now President Biden is announcing policy of his own that bears a resemblance to DACA.

1:17.0

This is a program to grant a pathway to citizenship

1:20.0

to about a half a million spouses of U.S. citizens.

1:24.0

Here is President Biden on Tuesday announcing the initiative.

1:27.0

For those wives, or husbands, and their children who have lived in America for a decade or more

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