Nearly 500,000 undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens and 50,000 children of mixed-status families could be spared deportation and provided legal status under the latest initiative from President Joe Biden, which would specifically open up the prospect of citizenship to undocumented immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for over 10 years, The Guardian reported.
This new executive action, expected to be announced by Biden at a White House event marking the 12th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, comes after he announced limits on asylum-seeking immigrants at the southern border earlier this month.
