Biden pledges to send bill to Senate offering ‘pathway to citizenship’ for 11M illegal immigrants in first 100 days in office

President-elect Joe Biden pledged this week to send a bill to the Senate granting amnesty to 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States within his first 100 days in office.

“I will send an immigration bill to the United States Senate with a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people in America,” Biden told NBC’s Lester Holt.

The bill could face tough opposition if Republicans control the Senate after two critical runoff elections in Georgia in January, but some members of the GOP have hinted that they are open to working with Democrats on the immigration issue.

“You’ll see from me a reliable conservative vote,” Sen. Lindsey Graham said days after the presidential election. “You’ll see from me stopping an agenda I think is bad for the country. … But you’ll also see me trying to find common ground that would benefit all of us, and a good place to start, I think, would be the debt and infrastructure and immigration.”

In addition, Biden has said he plans to override President Trump’s “damaging” executive orders on immigration.

It was reported earlier this month that Biden is also planning to restore former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals program, implement a moratorium on deportations for 100 days, end the “remain in Mexico” border policy, change the requirements for refugee status, increase refugee admissions, and end the controversial travel ban from several predominantly Muslim countries.

Trump has yet to concede the presidential election to Biden and continues to launch legal challenges in several battleground states, alleging widespread voter fraud and irregularities that he believes altered the outcome of the election.