TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 19, 2021

The U.S. House passed two bills yesterday that would grant legal status to two groups of immigrants living and working in the United States without documentation, Tennessee Lookout reports. The first provides a pathway to citizenship for hundreds of thousands brought to the country as children who now are protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The second bill would give legal status to agricultural workers. The Biden administration supports both bills but also noted it wants Congress to take up broader immigration reform, like the U.S. Citizenship Act. That bill, based on Biden’s policy priorities, would pair these measures with efforts to give legal status to millions more immigrants, fund border security measures and provide aid to Latin American countries to address the root causes of migration.