We have more details on the immigration proposal President-elect Biden will send to Congress after his inauguration today.

The centerpiece of the US Citizenship Act is a legalization provision with 2 pathways to US citizenship for undocumented immigrants: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-immigration-plan-undocumented-immigrants-dreamers/

Dreamers, DACA / TPS holders and farm workers would be eligible to apply for green cards immediately and for citizenship after 3 years.

Other eligible undocumented immigrants would be able to request deportation relief, work permits. After 5 years, they can request green cards.

The plan would also make changes to legal immigration.

It would increase per-country caps for family-based immigrant visas and allow immigrants whose family-sponsored petitions were approved to come to the US on a temporary basis as they wait for green cards to become available.

The per-country caps for employment-based immigrant visas would be eliminated.

Spots in the diversity visa lottery, a program established to foster immigration from underrepresented countries, would increase to 80,000 from the current annual cap of 55,000.

Current sanctions that bar immigrants from re-entering the U.S. for three or 10 years after living in the country without legal permission would be discarded under Mr. Biden's plan.

These are known as the three and 10 year bars.

The plan would also curtail a power that allows presidents to limit and outright ban the entry of non-citizens.

Mr. Trump invoked the authority several times, including to issue travel and immigration restrictions on 13 countries, most of which are majority Muslim or African.

Mr. Biden's bill would charge DHS with expanding screening capabilities along US borders to better interdict illicit drugs. It also allocates funds to bolster border agents' capacity to process asylum-seekers and disrupt drug smuggling.

CBP officers would receive more training.

The proposal would also eliminate the current 1-year deadline migrants have to apply for asylum; increase funding for legal orientation programs for children in deportation proceedings; and triple the number of visas available for victims of crimes who assist law enforcement.

The plan would also allocate $4 billion in aid to Central America to reduce the corruption, violence and poverty that prompt migrants to trek north.

It would establish facilities in the region where people can apply to come to the US, including through resettlement as refugees.

The plan revives the Central American Minors program to allow at-risk children to reunite with family in the US (Biden can do this unilaterally).

It would also create a new parole program for Central Americans who have family members in the US who can sponsor them.

Lastly, this would be a symbolic—but also noteworthy—change that advocates have called for: https://twitter.com/camiloreports/status/1351901319007784963?s=20