As more than 14,000 Haitians arrived at the United States border town of Del Rio, Texas, in late September, immigration advocates and Haitian-Americans decried the often chaotic processing of the incoming asylum seekers. But the landmark federal spending and social policy bill currently being debated in Congress contains some provisions to reform the immigration system, including preliminary processing.
Federal lawmakers are still negotiating the Build Back Better proposal by the Biden administration. It aims to address immigration, among other topics like expanding health care access and reducing the nation’s dependence on fossil fuels.
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