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President Biden Proposes Path to Citizenship For Nation's Undocumented Immigrants

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KQED

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.2726 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Millions of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. would have a path to citizenship in eight years or less, under the sweeping reform bill President Biden submitted to Congress this week. Biden also issued orders preserving the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, halting border wall construction and ending the travel ban that targeted Muslim countries. We'll review the Biden Administration's immigration plan and talk about its potential effects on California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Coming up on forum, millions of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. would have a path to citizenship in eight years or less under a sweeping reform bill President Biden submitted to Congress last week.

1:24.6

Biden also issued executive orders, preserving the DACA program, halting border wall construction,

1:30.7

and ending the travel ban that targeted mostly Muslim countries.

1:34.3

We review the Biden administration's immigration plan and its potential impact on California,

1:39.7

home to the largest undocumented population in the country.

1:43.2

Forum is next after this news.

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This is Forum. I'm Nina Kim. With some 2 million undocumented immigrants living in California,

2:06.5

the immigration bill that President Biden sent to Congress on his first day in office has big

2:12.3

implications for the state. It would provide an eight-year path to citizenship for people without

2:17.1

legal status and a shorter three-year path to citizenship for people without legal status

2:17.9

and a shorter three-year path for dreamers and farm workers, among other reforms. In this hour,

2:23.7

we'll review the proposal and its chances of success and look at the immediate impact of Biden's

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