There have been many positive developments during the first two years of the Biden administration to undo previous efforts to transform the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) into an enforcement agency. However, there is still more work to do and many ways the Biden administration can fulfill the promise of restoring faith in USCIS and the immigration benefits system. In ILRC’s A Platform for Immigrant Justice: Executive Action the Biden Administration Must Enact we outline bold, urgent and necessary policy solutions the Biden administration must enact to ensure immigration benefits are more equitable and accessible and that the work of dismantling the oppressive systems of enforcement, detention and surveillance begins.
