Here is what to expect from a Biden administration in key immigration policy areas.īiden has stated that one of the first things he will do as president is rescind President Trump's bans on travelers from 13 countries entering the United States. labor force, increase productivity and ultimately lead to economic growth." In the medium- to long-term, some aspects of the Biden immigration plan could be an opportunity to expand the U.S. "The number of jobs in the United States is not fixed, and as the population and labor force increase, so does total employment. "Our research finds that adding foreign workers to the economy does not crowd out employment for native workers," she said. "Through over 400 executive actions, employment-based immigration was significantly decreased by creating hurdles for employers to overcome when attempting to sponsor people for visas."īiden's proposals assume that immigrants make economic contributions, said Isabel Soto, director of labor market policy at American Action Forum, a Washington, D.C.-based policy and research group.
The Trump administration contends that immigration negatively impacts the labor market for U.S. "We understand that there are many competing priorities to be juggled by any incoming administration, and we will work with policymakers to advance sound public policies that protect the American worker while ensuring employers have access to the talent they need."
Dickens, corporate secretary, chief of staff and head of government affairs at the Society for Human Resource Management. "SHRM will urge the incoming administration to embrace immigration policies that will remove unnecessary obstacles to the pipeline of high-skilled talent," said Emily M. "But if Democrats don't take the Senate, that's far less likely," she said. Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst at MPI, pointed out that regulations enacted within the last 60 Congressional working days-meaning from around mid-March-can be reversed through the Congressional Review Act. The administration can also undertake new notice-and-comment rulemaking to revise rules that have already been issued in final form, but that process can take months or years." "At the outset, Biden will be able to rescind President Trump's executive orders, proclamations and directives and issue new ones in their place if necessary. "The current White House has issued a number of immigration-related executive orders, presidential memoranda, and regulatory directives which have severely limited an employer's ability to obtain skilled labor," said Jorge Lopez, an attorney in the Miami office of Littler and chair of the firm's global mobility and immigration practice group. Some of those items include a temporary moratorium on deportations, the restoration of the Obama administration's workplace enforcement guidelines, and repeal of the Trump administration's 20 executive actions banning travel from several nations determined to lack sufficient vetting procedures for travelers. However, the president-elect has already pledged significant immigration actions within the first 100 days of his presidency, she added.
immigration policy at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) in Washington, D.C. "Given the incoming administration's focus on responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, much of Biden's early political capital may be invested outside the immigration realm," said Doris Meissner, senior fellow and director of U.S. These plans will be contingent on which party controls the Senate-to be decided in January by two runoff elections in Georgia-and the course of the coronavirus pandemic, which continues to spike across the country, leaving millions of workers unemployed. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)-which have led to more visa denials and requests for evidence-as well as rescind recently issued regulations of the H-1B program.īiden's platform also outlines larger goals to work on with Congress, such as increasing the number of employment-based visas, providing a path to legalization for the 12 million undocumented immigrants in the country and creating a new, decentralized immigration stream for foreign workers that is based on local employers' needs as well as a new visa option for entrepreneurs. President-elect Joe Biden's plans for employment-based immigration will primarily be reversing what President Donald Trump has done since 2017: turning back the president's executive actions that restricted travel, limited green cards and guest worker programs, and eliminated the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.Įxperts believe that Biden's administration will ease restrictive adjudication policies at U.S.
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