Source: Suzanne Monyak, ROLL CALL, 2/18/21


President Joe Biden’s promised comprehensive immigration legislation hit the Hill on Thursday, but Democrats cautioned that the legislation represents the president’s “vision” for the system and not necessarily a bipartisan package. “It’s our vision of what immigration reform should look like. And it’s a bill we can all be proud of,” Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, who is introducing the bill in the Senate, said at a virtual press conference. The 353-page draft bill would mark the first drastic overhaul of the U.S. immigration system in years.

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