Illegal immigrants are ‘demanding’ Joe Biden give them permanent legal status

Published January 12, 2021 8:51pm ET



President Trump may not have fulfilled his 2016 promise to deport illegal immigrants by the millions, but he at least kept them in a state of some anxiety that at any moment they might be.

Trump was a constant reminder that they weren’t entitled to be here, that coming in unannounced was no longer how we were going to do things, at least for a while. But now, the Biden administration is about to take over, and illegal immigrants know that the new president is no Trump.

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