Can President Biden fix America's Immigration System?
When the fate of the Democratic presidential primary was still unclear last February, journalist Jorge Ramos coaxed Joe Biden with an emotion he was not in the habit of expressing: remorse for the actions of his former boss, Barack Obama. Mr. Ramos asked Mr. Biden about the immigration legacy of the Obama administration, which includes the expulsion of more than three million illegal immigrants, of whom an estimated 1.7 million have no criminal records. "We have taken far too long to get it right," Mr. Biden said of the early failure of the administration to concentrate solely on those who had committed crimes. I think that was a huge mistake" On his first day as president, Mr. Biden took an unprecedented step towards remedying the mistake: not only did he rescind a Trump executive order that actively targeted undocumented immigrants for deportation only hours after he was sworn in on Wednesday, but he also sent a sweeping plan to Congress that vowed an explicit anti-imm...