Biden to waive penalties for undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens
President Biden will announce plans to clear the way for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants married to U.S. citizens to apply for legal residency.
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Yup, cuz that’ll make you less awful on immigration!
I mean, yeah? You can be cynical and say it’s timed to distract but this does make him better on immigration
There really shouldn't be a need for penalties in the first place. This is just more boring "I don't actually want to fix immigration, but I need to look like I am, so instead I'm going to do this not-even-half-measure to get some good headlines" bullshit.
Generally, spouses of citizens can apply to get a green card (and a k3 non-immigrant visa while that's pending... but apparently that takes just as long... fuck our goverment.)
Or maybe a K3 should just be granted when somebody applies for a green card to begin with. ask them to check in with somebody once a month until a background check clears or something, and once it does, the K3 is conditional on the green card. You know. Let them become "productive members of society" and that bull shit.
And before somebody says 'TeRrOrIsM!!!' or something like that. these undocumented immigrants are already living here. Think about that. if they really were terrorists, do you think they'll go to the immigration service and ask for citizenship, or a green card? and do you really think actual terrorists are going to bother with getting a k3/green card visa at all? Most are already citizens.
On the other hand, "perfect is the enemy of progress". While this certainly doesn't solve the issue, it is an (admittedly minor) improvement.
It’s not even close to what’s necessary.
I will say that the pbs article posted gives a better explanation- in that they are doing some of what I’m saying- it just waiving but actively ignoring penalties going forward- but that article is from undisclosed “sources” so I’ll have to wait to make final judgement.
In any case, it’s not progress when you consider how he’s gone so far to the right on every other aspect of immigration.
I’m not asking for perfect. I’m not even asking for good. I’m asking for sufficient, and on the whole, he ain’t.