Joe Biden is, supposedly, the president from the “moderate lane” of the Democratic Party here to unite the country after four years of that nutty orange guy. Yet on the very day he was inaugurated, he proposed a set of immigration reforms that activists have called “bold,” including broad amnesty for illegal immigrants.
The package, outlined in a fact sheet ahead of draft legislation being sent to Congress, has little prayer of passing in anything like its current form. So long as the filibuster remains intact, the bill would need the support of ten Republican senators, or one-fifth of the caucus, assuming no Democrats defected. (Marco Rubio, a Republican member of the 2013 “Gang of Eight,” has already rejected the bill’s amnesty.) The proposal is partly an opening bid, partly a harsh repudiation of Trump’s immigration stance, and completely out of step with any honest intention to unify the nation.
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