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Report says a second Trump term would add 4 billion tons of climate pollution; Trump predicts a bloodbath for the country if he is defeated in November's election; Nevada leaders discuss future of IVF, abortion in the Silver State; and anglers seek trawler buffer zone as Atlantic herring stock declines.

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The SCOTUS weighs government influence on social media, and who groups like the NRA can do business with. Biden signs an executive order to advance women's health research and the White House tells Israel it's responsible for the Gaza humanitarian crisis.

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Midwest regenerative farmers are rethinking chicken production, Medicare Advantage is squeezing the finances of rural hospitals and California's extreme swing from floods to drought has some thinking it's time to turn rural farm parcels into floodplains.

Groups “Floored” by Biden Immigration Proposal

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Wednesday, January 20, 2021   

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - On his first day in office, President Joe Biden will press for bold immigration reform, proposing a path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants.

The proposal would apply to people who have a clean criminal record and were in the United States before Jan. 1. If approved, this would be the first so-called "mass legalization" since 1986, during the Reagan administration.

Carlos Guevara, associate director for immigration policy for the group Unidos US, said there's a lot of pent-up demand for change in the immigration system.

"We're pleased, and frankly floored a little bit, by how visionary this bill appears to be," he said. "The path to citizenship of eight years - that is the fastest that we have ever seen."

California is home to 2 million undocumented immigrants, 200,000 DACA recipients and 55,000 people who hold Temporary Protected Status - all of whom could benefit from the Biden proposal. Opponents have said it amounts to amnesty for people who have broken U.S. immigration laws.

Cynthia Buiza, executive director of the California Immigrant Policy Center, described herself as "cautiously optimistic" about the bill's potential. She noted that the Biden administration has so many crises to attend to, and his party only has a slim majority in the Senate.

"We're all for it," she said, "but we want a level of seriousness, the political will - because you need to get this policy through Congress."

The proposal also would make everyone eligible for COVID vaccinations, regardless of immigration status. It also would make more people in mixed-status families eligible for pandemic relief, and would implement job protections in industries that employ a lot of immigrant workers.


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