Leading legal experts urge aggressive immigration actions
By David J. Bier, Opinion Contributor — 12/18/20 07:00 PM EST
As President-elect Joe Biden prepares to assume office next month, he is already announcing his plans to reverse President Donald Trump’s legal immigration restrictions. While this will be a tall order by itself, the Cato Institute has published a new compilation of essays by 15 leading legal scholars arguing that the new administration should go far beyond simply rescinding Trump’s changes and adopt reforms that make legal immigration easier.
They argue that the rules were already too restrictive before President Trump tightened them to unprecedented levels and lay out authorities that President Biden can use to make life easier for legal immigrants.
The authors include several former presidents of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), a former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official, authors of the most widely used immigration law reference text in the United States, and other well-known immigration law experts. The project offers the most compelling and sweeping legal immigration agenda for the new administration to date.
https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/530948-leading-legal-experts-urge-aggressive-immigration-actions
