Biden - Harris positions on key issues

Here are some of the Biden - Harris positions on key issues, including immigration law enforcement.

Joe Biden Told Voters the Second Amendment DOES NOT Protect an Individual Right, NRL-ILA, September 21, 2020:

 

From Trump and Biden on immigration: nearly opposite, but not quite, La Times, August 17, 2020:

• Joe Biden’s proposed immigration platform aims to undo Trump’s “misguided policies” by taking an opposing position on just about every one of the president’s efforts to curb immigration...
• Biden would expand protections for immigrants [illegal aliens] and restore many of the Obama-era policies overturned by Trump.
• Biden has said that during his first 100 days in office he would end Trump’s national emergency declaration, which has rerouted billions in federal funds to the border wall...
• He’s promised that in his first 100 days he would prioritize family reunifications, reinstate the DACA program and rescind the Trump administration’s travel ban on many Muslim-majority countries...
• Biden promises to work with Congress to increase the number of employment-based immigration visas and triple the number of U visas granted to victims of human trafficking and certain other crimes. He’s also vowed to raise the annual refugee admissions to 125,000...
• He proposes a four-year, $4-billion regional plan that, in collaboration with leaders in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, would target corruption... To pay for the United States’ investment in the plan, Biden would use funds from the Department of Homeland Security’s budget for the detention of migrants...
• In July, the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Forces, a combination of supporters of Biden and his former primary rival Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, offered platform recommendations that included protecting the parents of Dreamers under the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, or DAPA...
• Biden expressed remorse for the millions of deportations the Obama administration carried out, calling the policies a “big mistake.”...
• Biden has said healthcare coverage should be available for everyone, no matter their legal status. His campaign said he supports allowing immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally [illegal aliens] to buy unsubsidized coverage...
• The Biden-Sanders task forces recommend extending Affordable Care Act coverage to DACA recipients...

 

The Biden Plan for Securing Our Values as a Nation of Immigrants, September 7, 2020:

• ... Biden will forcefully pursue policies that... Take urgent action to undo Trump’s damage...
• As Vice President, Biden championed the creation and expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program; the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) progra...
• Immediately reverse the Trump Administration’s cruel and senseless policies that separate parents from their children at our border...
• End the mismanagement of the asylum system, which fuels violence and chaos at the border. Trump’s disastrous policy of “metering” — limiting the number of asylum applications accepted each day ...
• Reverse Trump’s public charge rule...
• End the so-called National Emergency that siphons federal dollars from the Department of Defense to build a wall....
• Protect Dreamers and their families...
• Rescind the un-American travel and refugee bans, also referred to as “Muslim bans.”...
• Creates a roadmap to citizenship for the nearly 11 million [a significantly low estimate] people [illegal aliens] who have been living in and strengthening our country for years...
• Provides a path to legalization [amnesty] for agricultural workers who have worked for years on U.S. farms...
• Preserves preferences for diversity in the current system. Trump has set his sights on abolishing the Diversity Visa lottery....
• Increases the number of visas offered for permanent, work-based immigration [H-1b visas]...
• Increase the number of refugees we welcome into the country...

From Joe Biden’s Agenda for the Indian American Community, September 7, 2020:

• Biden will rescind Trump’s “Muslim ban” on day one and reverse the detrimental asylum policies that are causing chaos and a humanitarian crisis at our border. He will immediately begin working with Congress to pass legislative immigration reform that modernizes our system, with a priority on keeping families together by providing a roadmap to citizenship for nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants [illegal aliens]....
• Biden will support family-based immigration and preserve family unification as a core principle of our immigration system, which includes reducing the family visa backlog. He will increase the number of visas offered for permanent, work-based immigration...
• Biden will support family-based immigration and preserve family unification as a core principle of our immigration system, which includes reducing the family visa backlog. He will increase the number of visas offered for permanent, work-based immigration...
• He will also work with Congress to establish a minimum admissions number of 95,000 refugees annually. Biden will remove the uncertainty for Dreamers by reinstating the DACA program...
• ... he will nominate and appoint federal officials and judges who look like America, including from the Indian American community. ..

 

From Joe Biden’s Jobs and Economic Recovery Plan for Working Families, September 7, 2020:

• ... he will pursue a dedicated agenda to close the racial wealth gap, to expand affordable housing, to invest in Black, Latino, and Native American entrepreneurs and communities, to advance policing and criminal justice reform, and to make real the promise of educational opportunity regardless of race or zip code....
• ... a decent wage, at least $15 per hour...
• ... Joe Biden will make new, bold investments and speed up the timetable for many of the 10-year investments he has already announced. He will pay for the ongoing costs of the plan by reversing some of Trump’s tax cuts for corporations and imposing common-sense tax reforms that finally make sure the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share. ...

From The Biden Plan to Build Back Better by Advancing Racial Equity Across the American Economy, September 7, 2020:

• Spur more than $50 billion in additional public-private venture capital to Black and Brown entrepreneurs...
• Expand access to $100 billion in low-interest business loans by funding state, local, tribal and non-profit lending programs in Black and Brown communities...
• ... requiring U.S. corporations with over $1 billion in revenues that receive federal financing or incentives for their global business to publicize data on their use of firms owned by Black and Brown Americans in their supply chains;...
• ... Eliminate local and state housing regulations that perpetuate discrimination. Exclusionary zoning has for decades been strategically used to keep Black and Brown people and low-income families out of certain communities. Among other steps, Biden will enact legislation requiring any state receiving federal dollars through the Community Development Block Grants or Surface Transportation Block Grants to develop a strategy for inclusionary zoning, as proposed in the HOME Act of 2019 by Majority Whip Jim Clyburn and Senator Cory Booker.... See Joe Biden’s full housing plan.
• Make public colleges and universities, as well as private HBCUs and MSIs, tuition-free for all families with incomes below $125,000.
• Guarantee up to 12 weeks paid family and medical leave for all workers and up to seven days of paid sick, family, and safe leave.
• Eliminate cash bail.

From The Biden Plan to End Our Gun Violence Epidemic,  September 7, 2020:

• Hold gun manufacturers accountable....
• Ban the manufacture and sale of assault [meaning non-military] and high-capacity [meaning standard capacity] magazines...
• Regulate possession of existing assault [meaning non-military] weapons under the National Firearms Act....
• Biden supports legislation restricting the number of firearms an individual may purchase per month to one....
• Reinstate the Obama-Biden policy to keep guns out of the hands of certain people unable to manage their affairs for mental reasons, which President Trump reversed....
• End the online sale of firearms and ammunitions. ...
• Incentivize state “extreme risk” laws. Extreme risk laws, also called “red flag” laws...
• Put America on the path to ensuring that 100% of firearms sold in America are smart guns....
• Require gun owners to safely store their weapons....

From The Biden Plan for Mobilizing American Talent and Heart to Create a 21st Century Caregiving and Education Workforce, September 7, 2020:

• The [economic recovery] plan will cost $775 billion over 10 years and will be paid for by rolling back unproductive and unequal tax breaks for real estate investors with incomes over $400,000 and taking steps to increase tax compliance for high-income earners.

From The Biden Plan to Build a Modern, Sustainable Infrastructure and an Equitable Clean Energy Future, September 7, 2020:

• Ensure that environmental justice is a key consideration in where, how, and with whom we build...
• Require that companies receiving procurement contracts are using taxpayer dollars to support good American jobs, including a commitment to pay at least $15 per hour, provide paid leave, maintain fair overtime and scheduling practices, and guarantee a choice to join a union and bargain collectively.
• Biden will ensure these jobs are filled by diverse, local, well-trained workers – including women and people of color – by requiring federally funded projects to prioritize Project Labor and Community Workforce Agreements and employ workers trained in registered apprenticeship programs.
• Make major public investments in automobile infrastructure — including in 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations
• Create a new Advanced Research Projects Agency on Climate
• Biden has a comprehensive environmental justice plan,

 

From The Biden Agenda for Women, September 7, 2020:

• Biden will work to codify Roe v. Wade, and his Justice Department will do everything in its power to stop the rash of state laws that so blatantly violate Roe v. Wade.
• Restore federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
• Restore the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate in place before the U.S. Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision.

 

From Biden's Authoritarian America, American Thinker, September 26, 2020:

• Biden has promised to sign the Equality Act into law if it is passed by the Senate.... the Equality Act would force religious individuals and organizations to speak messages and act in ways that violate their beliefs, under the threat of punishment.
• Biden will restore the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"), forcing religious ministries and schools, along with businesses operated by religiously devout owners, to cover the insurance cost of birth control drugs that can cause abortions.
• Biden will require taxpayers to fund abortions...
• Biden will restore Obama's guidance for college tribunals on sexual misconduct....
• Biden will reinstate Obama's heavy-handed transgender "bathroom directive."...
• Biden said he would shut down the country if necessary in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus, even though the direct oversight of public health is not a power delegated to the president or the federal government. Only the states have the power, under the 10th Amendment...
• He will also establish an "Environmental and Climate Justice Division" in order to further consolidate federal power by using, in his words, an "all-of-government approach."...
• Finally, under Joe Biden, the federal government will extend its tentacles to local neighborhoods by regulating zoning.  His administration will end single-family zoning in many suburbs and create "little downtowns" in these communities by building high-density, low-income housing....

Joe Biden Says He Supports 8-Year-Olds Changing Gender: 'I Will Flat Out Just Change The Law'', Information Liberation, October 15, 2020:  Biden said. "And what's happening is, too many transgender women of color are being murdered. They're being murdered." Watch.