Téa's Coffee: The Biden Administration & Immigration Reform
Is this ‘the’ moment for long-awaited comprehensive immigration reform? Congress has tried before, but there has not been a comprehensive overhaul of our immigration system since the late 1980s!
For this issue, we spoke with Benjamin Johnson, the Executive Director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) in Washington, DC. We also spoke with CNN Senior Immigration Reporter, Catherine Schoichet. We heard from Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), an immigrant from India.
This issue of The Think Table breaks down how likely comprehensive immigration reform is to pass Congress (where votes will likely not be along partisan lines) and how much power President Biden has to modernize the immigration system through executive action.