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Democratic Presidential Candidate Positions on Immigration

DRAFT December 31, 2019

Family-Based Diversity Employment- Refugees DACA/TPS/DED Undocumented


Immigration Visas Based
Immigration
Joe Biden Rejects the false Will reaffirm our core Will work with Will prioritize Will remove the Will immediately
choice between values and preserve Congress to restoring refugee uncertainty for begin working with
employment-based the critical role of increase the number admissions in line Dreamers by Congress to
and family-based diversity preferences of visas awarded for with our historic reinstating the modernize our
immigration to ensure permanent, practice under both DACA program, and system, with a
immigrants employment-based Democratic and he will explore all priority on keeping
Will support family- everywhere have the immigration—and Republican legal options to families together by
based immigration chance to legally promote Administrations. He protect their families providing a roadmap
by preserving family become U.S. mechanisms to will set the annual from inhumane to citizenship for
unification as a citizens temporarily reduce global refugee separation nearly 11 million
foundation of our the number of visas admissions cap to undocumented
immigration system; during times of high 125,000, and seek Will protect TPS and immigrants
by allowing any U.S. unemployment to raise it over time Deferred Enforced
approved applicant commensurate with Departure (DED)
to receive a Will also exempt our responsibility, holders from being
temporary non- from any cap recent our values, and the returned to countries
immigrant visa until graduates of PhD unprecedented that are unsafe
the permanent visa programs in STEM global need
is processed; and by fields in the U.S.
supporting who are poised to
legislation that treats make some of the
the spouse and most important
children of green contributions to the
card holders as the world economy
immediate relatives
they are, exempting
them from caps, and Will support
allowing parents to compromise
bring their minor legislation between
children with them at farmworkers and the
the time they agricultural sector
immigrate that will provide legal
status based on
prior agricultural
work history, and a
faster-track to a
green card and
ultimately citizenship

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Democratic Presidential Candidate Positions on Immigration
DRAFT December 31, 2019

Will support a
program to allow any
county or municipal
executive of a large
or midsize county or
city to petition for
additional immigrant
visas to support the
region’s economic
development
strategy, provided
employers in those
regions certify there
are available jobs,
and that there are no
workers to fill them;
holders of these
visas would be
required to work and
reside in the city or
county that
petitioned for them,
and would be
subject to the same
certification
protections as other
employment-based
immigrants

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Democratic Presidential Candidate Positions on Immigration
DRAFT December 31, 2019


Family-Based Diversity Employment- Refugees DACA/TPS/DED Undocumented
Immigration Visas Based
Immigration
Bernie Will protect and Will lift President Will immediately Will use executive
Sanders expand family-based Trump’s refugee extend legal status authority to allow
visas and cut waiting caps and live up to to the 1.8 million undocumented
times and backlogs our nation’s ideals young people immigrants who
and international law currently eligible for have resided in the
Will ensure customs by welcoming those the DACA program, United States for five
and immigration displaced from their and provide or more years to
agencies have the homes administrative relief stay here free from
funding and to their parents, threat of deportation
personnel necessary Will include a Will create a new those with
to eliminate the pathway to program to welcome Temporary Will push Congress
backlog of pending citizenship for those migrants displaced Protected Status, to enact a swift, fair
applications and cut seasonal workers by climate change, and parents of legal pathway to
wait times for who wish to pursue and set a floor of permanent citizenship for the 11
immigration it accepting at least residents; expand to million unauthorized
applications; will 50,000 climate all those who came immigrants currently
work with Congress migrants in first year to the United States living, working, and
to provide funding to in office under the age of 18 contributing in
swiftly unify families and remove arbitrary America today;
stuck in pending cut off dates establish a path to
backlogs legal permanent
Will expand parole in status and
Will repeal three- place to the families citizenship within
and ten-year bars and caregivers of five years; prioritize
citizens and legal expedited citizenship
permanent residents for undocumented
and employed youth; and ensure
workers, and use any path to
hardship waivers to citizenship does not
remove barriers to come with a
green cards and reduction in
citizenship for as traditional, family-
many eligible cases based visas
as possible

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Democratic Presidential Candidate Positions on Immigration
DRAFT December 31, 2019


Family-Based Diversity Employment- Refugees DACA/TPS/DED Undocumented
Immigration Visas Based
Immigration
Elizabeth We should reflect We should empower Will welcome Will immediately For the good of our
Warren our values, which workers, not 125,000 refugees in reinstate the DACA economy and our
means expanding employers, by first year, and program and communities, it’s
family reunification coupling any ramping up to at protections for our long past time to
and making it easier expansion of legal least 175,000 Dreamers and their provide a path
for relatives of immigration with real refugees per year by families; will expand forward for the
citizens and green accountability on the end of my term the program to cover approximately 11
card holders to come employers who more young people million
to the United States break the rules, by extending the cut- undocumented
exploit workers, or off date, eliminating individuals currently
Will redistribute don’t adhere to basic the arbitrary living and working in
unused visas to labor standards; we application age the Unites States
reduce [the family should be requirement, and
reunification] backlog transparent and extending the Will extend the
and reunite more data-driven in our “minor” designation individual exercise of
families with their immigration policies, to anyone who was discretion to offer
loved ones using the best brought to the U.S. deferred action
available information under the age of 18 protections to
Will urge Congress to identify true needs hardworking
to repeal laws that in the labor force and immigrants who
make family to address those Will reinstate have contributed to
reunification more needs in a way that Temporary Protected our country for years
difficult to achieve incorporates the Status designations and have built
input of both workers and Deferred careers and families
Will petition and companies Enforced Departure here
Congress to repeal to protect individuals
[the 3- and 10-year at risk in their home Will push for a far-
bars]; in the countries reaching legislative
meantime, will fix that provides a
reinterpret “extreme fair but achievable
hardship” to include path to citizenship
family separation,
making it easier to
obtain a waiver
allowing people to
apply for legal status
without having to
leave the country for
an extended period
of time

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Democratic Presidential Candidate Positions on Immigration
DRAFT December 31, 2019


Family-Based Diversity Employment- Refugees DACA/TPS/DED Undocumented
Immigration Visas Based
Immigration
Pete Will reduce the Will protect the Will create a flexible Will welcome at Will restore and Will create a path to
Buttigieg backlog of family- Diversity Visa review system least 125,000 extend temporary citizenship for the
based visas and program where the allotment refugees in first year protections approximately 11
increase the number for employment- in office and support rescinded or million
of visas issued for based visas will be the GRACE Act, threatened by the undocumented
family reunification set every other year which sets an current people living in the
each year. He also based on our annual floor of administration United States who
will fight for reforms economy’s 95,000 refugee call this country
to re-classify needs…informed by arrivals In first 100 days, will home
spouses and labor market needs, push for legislation
children of engagement that provides a
permanent residents with immigrant and mechanism to gain
as immediate other stakeholders, legal status and
relatives, eliminate and analysis of ultimately citizenship
discriminatory domestic and global , including for people
annual per-country trends with temporary
caps, end down- protections -
grading of family Will support the Deferred Action for
preferences (through Agricultural Worker Childhood Arrivals
aging out or getting Program Act (DACA), Temporary
married), and Protected Status
recognize same-sex Will create (TPS), Deferred
partners from community renewal Enforced Departure
countries lacking visas where (DED), and
marriage equality applicants will withholding of
specify one or more removal
Will end the three- preferred
and ten-year bars to destinations before
re-entering the being matched with
United States. a community, and
...while promoting a will be eligible for a
legislative fix to end green card on an
these bars, will work expedited three-year
to expand who can basis if they remain
qualify for waivers in that community or
within five years if
they move

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Democratic Presidential Candidate Positions on Immigration
DRAFT December 31, 2019


Family-Based Diversity Employment- Refugees DACA/TPS/DED Undocumented
Immigration Visas Based
Immigration
Andrew The current system We need to find a A pathway to
Yang we have in place, solution that allows citizenship for 11
when it works, does millions of million
a great job of undocumented undocumented
ensuring that highly immigrants in this immigrants must be
skilled, hard- country who were provided after
working, and brought here as securing our
invested immigrants children through no southern border
can come to this fault of their own
country and to formally integrate
integrate, becoming into our country
new Americans who
contribute greatly to
our society

Any highly rated


worker or graduating
student who
receives a graduate
degree here should
be given a green
card to remain in this
country as a
permanent resident

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Democratic Presidential Candidate Positions on Immigration
DRAFT December 31, 2019


Family-Based Diversity Employment- Refugees DACA/TPS/DED Undocumented
Immigration Visas Based
Immigration
Cory Booker Will fight for a Would increase the Would restore and Will fight for the
system that cap on refugees to a expand policies that passage of
recognizes that minimum of 110,000 provide protection to legislation in
immigrants make Dreamers, their Congress that
our country stronger families, individuals reforms our
and that we need with TPS, and those immigration system
each other to move with DED status, and provides earned
our country forward. and promote citizenship for the
opportunities to help millions of
beneficiaries pursue undocumented
available pathways immigrants living
to citizenship and working with us
as our colleagues,
neighbors, and
friends

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Democratic Presidential Candidate Positions on Immigration
DRAFT December 31, 2019


Family-Based Diversity Employment- Refugees DACA/TPS/DED Undocumented
Immigration Visas Based
Immigration
Julian Revamp the visa Increase refugee Provide a pathway Establish an
Castro system and admissions, to citizenship for inclusive roadmap to
strengthen family reversing cuts under Dreamers and those citizenship for
reunification through Trump, and restoring under Temporary undocumented
the Reuniting our nation to its Protected Status individuals and
Families Act, historic position as a and Deferred families who do not
reducing the number Ensure skilled and moral leader Enforced Departure, have a current
of people who are unskilled guest providing a safe through the Dream pathway to legal
waiting to reunite workers have a fair haven for those and Promise Act of status, but who live,
with their families opportunity to fleeing persecution, 2019, and defend work, and raise
but are stuck in the become residents violence, disaster, DACA and TPS families in
bureaucratic backlog and citizens through and despair; adapt protections during communities
the Agricultural these programs to the legislative throughout the
Terminate the three Worker Program Act account for new process United States
and ten year bars, global challenges
which require like climate change
undocumented
individuals - who
otherwise qualify for
legal status - to
leave the United
States and their
families behind for
years before
becoming citizens

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Democratic Presidential Candidate Positions on Immigration
DRAFT December 31, 2019


Family-Based Diversity Employment- Refugees DACA/TPS/DED Undocumented
Immigration Visas Based
Immigration
Tom Steyer Will re-establish Will take executive Will work toward
America as a safe action to reinstate comprehensive
haven for those the DACA and TPS immigration reform;
fleeing persecution programs will create a path to
and oppression citizenship for
millions of people
that contribute to our
economy, but are
currently living in the
shadows

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Democratic Presidential Candidate Positions on Immigration
DRAFT December 31, 2019

Sources:

https://joebiden.com/immigration/

https://berniesanders.com/issues/welcoming-and-safe-america-all/

https://medium.com/@teamwarren/a-fair-and-welcoming-immigration-system-8fff69cd674e

https://peteforamerica.com/policies/immigration/

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/enticing-high-skill-individuals/

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/support-the-dream-act/

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/pathway-to-citizenship-2/

https://corybooker.com/issues/immigration/policy-page/

https://issues.juliancastro.com/people-first-immigration/

https://www.tomsteyer.com/policies/

No specific policy positions announced:

Amy Klobubar: https://www.ontheissues.org/2020/Amy_Klobuchar_Immigration.htm

Mike Bloonberg: https://www.mikebloomberg.com/policies/immigration

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