Steny Hoyer pledges major amnesty bill in ‘the next few months’

Published March 16, 2021 5:40pm ET



House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Congress will begin moving legislation that would provide a pathway to citizenship for the nation’s illegal immigrants “over the next few months.”

The move comes as the Biden administration struggles to cope with a massive surge of illegal immigrants across the southern border that Democrats blame on the nation’s immigration policies. Biden, earlier this month, proposed legalizing the nation’s approximately 11 million immigrants.

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