The challenges Biden will face on immigration reform

The Biden administration will face a number of challenges in changing direction on the Trump administration immigration policies.  As this PBS story highlights, simply ending the Muslim ban and maintaining the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy will not be sufficient to bring about lasting change:  “immigration reform advocates, former immigration officials, attorneys and others said the planned changes won’t lead to long-term improvements unless Biden overhauls the nation’s broken detention and immigration court system, which is currently overwhelmed with a backlog of more than 1 million pending asylum cases built up over multiple administrations.” (bold added).  Biden during the campaign and after has had to explain the immigration record of President Obama.  

Some advocates say that Biden must make long-term improvements to the immigration and asylum process, while also securing comprehensive immigration reform.   President Obama failed to secure long-awaited immigration reform.

KJ