Mayorkas on Biden’s Immigration Policy Affecting 500K Immigrants: ‘This Is All About Family Unity’

‘Now they can apply by staying together with their spouse, their U.S. citizen spouse and also so very often their children’

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MAYORKAS: "This is all about family unity, keeping families together. A United States citizen spouse, who wife or husband is undocumented and has been in this country for 10 years or more, that undocumented spouse may now have a path to a green card to lawful permanent resident without having to do what they once did, which is leave the country and apply for that benefit without any assurance of when precisely they will be able to return. Now they can apply by staying together with their spouse, their U.S. citizen spouse, and also so very often their children, including U.S. Citizen children. It's about family unity, a primary goal of our immigration system, a fundamental value of our country. And today, President Biden, in the face of congressional inaction, took the action a leader takes."

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