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    Biden takes swing at immigration reform with new legislation

    by Molly O'Toole, Los Angeles Times Feb 18, 2021 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden will make official on Thursday his aggressive opening salvo in a decades-long effort to reform a broken U.S. immigration system, which ground to a near-halt under his predecessor.

    Democratic lawmakers are set to introduce the legislation that Biden officials touted on his first day in the White House, officials said — an ambitious bill that would offer a pathway to citizenship for an estimated 11 million immigrants in the United States without legal status.

    With Democrats having a tenuous hold on both chambers of Congress, progressives have pushed the Biden administration to go "big, bold and inclusive" on immigration reform, as Rep. Linda T. Sanchez, D-Calif., and Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., the bill's chief sponsors, put it in a statement Wednesday.

    Republicans, for their part, began to decry the bill before it was announced, a potential sign that Biden's proposal

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