Shikha Dalmia, Columnist

Biden’s Immigration Plan Is Ambitious But Not Impossible

It will be hard to get Republican support in the Senate but parts of the bill can pass.

The Dreamers have hope.

Photographer: Sandy Huffaker/AFP/Getty Images

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Just when Republican support for pro-immigration legislation has dropped to its lowest level in two decades, President Joe Biden has put forward reforms far more ambitious than those proposed by Barack Obama. So if Obama’s plans went down in flames, Biden’s will too, right, especially given the hair-thin majority the Democrats have in the Senate?

Maybe. Maybe not.