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White House steps on immigration reform plan by calling coronavirus bill its ‘sole priority’

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White House steps on immigration reform plan by calling coronavirus bill its ‘sole priority’

The White House on Thursday blunted the rollout of an immigration reform package by admitting it’s not a “priority” issue.

Congressional Democrats introduced an immigration bill similar to the one President Biden pitched on his first day in office called the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021. The measure creates an eight-year path to citizenship for the country’s roughly 11 million illegal immigrants.

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