Biden administration set to introduce legislation to provide citizenship to undocumented individuals

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Biden administration is set to introduce a new legislation this week which will affirm enforcement of bills presented earlier to provide citizenship for 11 million undocumented individuals living in the United States, a CNN report said.

According to the report, Biden on Tuesday reaffirmed his commitment to provide citizenship for undocumented immigrants in US who came to the country as children and now living illegally under humanitarian ground.

“Yeah, there’s a whole range of things that relate to immigration,” the President said during a CNN town hall when inquired if he’d sign a bill that did not contain a pathway to citizenship.

Earlier, Joe Biden had sent immigration reform bill to Congress immediately after taking the office, which will provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants including 500,000 from India, in an eight-year time frame, along with other executive orders.

These bills are expected to be reappearing on the House floor before April 1 when the democratic lawmakers unveil the legislation that’s already received approval in the chamber without submitting to committee, the CNN report said.

Democrats are going to present the new legislation to overcome the President’s inability to provide citizenship to undocumented immigrants.

” But what really the President cannot do is provide permanent status to people and we’ve made so many runs at this but we really have to get it done to make sure that people are on a path to citizenship” Tyler Moran, special assistant to the President for immigration for the Domestic Policy Council, said to CNN.

A group of House Democrats are leading the effort to pass Biden’s immigration bill, the report said.