U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) speaking on May 5, 2020.
In seven long tweets, Arkansas Republican U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) slammed Biden‘s immigration plan to put millions of illegal immigrants on an eight-year fast track to citizenship as the old and new administrations change hands.
President Joe Biden plans to launch a comprehensive immigration plan at the beginning of his term, aiming to reverse Trump-era immigration policies, but his aggressive approach is being resisted by both parties. Cotton called Biden’s immigration plan “the most radical immigration bill in U.S. history.
Biden’s immigration plan has also met with backlash from some Democrats. While Democrats also want immediate immigration reform, they are concerned that Biden’s plan will not advance a comprehensive agenda and will more likely address different immigration issues on a “case-by-case” basis.
One element of Biden’s immigration plan is to create an eight-year pathway to citizenship for about 11 million illegal immigrants. Corden said such a policy would be unfair to “legal immigrants who follow the rules.
Biden plans to follow through on his campaign promises to suspend deportations, provide more pathways to citizenship for illegal immigrants and prevent the U.S. government from using federal emergency funds to expand the southern border wall. Cotton argued that the problem with Biden’s immigration bill is the impact on health and safety. He said Biden intends to “immediately undo the massive border closure” and threaten the health and safety of the United States by allowing illegal immigrants to re-enter the country.
In a series of tweets, Cotton wrote, “This is the party you want for open borders: full Amnesty, no regard for the health and safety of Americans, and zero enforcement.” “Lack of detection and control at the border will mean massive spread of the virus.”
Several of Biden’s core policies in his first 100 days in office have revolved around the deadly Communist virus pandemic, but the Biden transition team has yet to confirm how they will resolve the tension between simultaneously “reopening the borders” and “controlling the virus.
Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, and other lawmakers have said they will push for legislation that would resolve the issue of fast-tracking citizenship for immigrants who worked on the front lines during the Epidemic within five years.
According to the U.S. news site HuffPost, Castro said on a Jan. 15 telephone news conference, “These people feed us, clean our houses, hospitals and offices …… they do all of this while living with the fear of deportation, exploitation and the fear of the current pandemic.”
Castro but the proposal would affect about 5 million illegal immigrants, according to the publication.
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