Biden Plan Gives 11 Million a Path to U.S. Citizenship

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By MICHAEL D. SHEAR WASHINGTON — President- tries, increase opportunities for elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. will pro- foreigners to work in the United pose far-reaching legislation on States and enhance security at the Wednesday to give the 11 million border through new technologies undocumented immigrants living instead of through the border wall in the United States a chance to Mr. Trump tried to build. become citizens in as little as eight Mr. Biden’s proposal is the lat- years, part of an ambitious and po- est effort in a decades-long at- litically perilous attempt to undo tempt to reimagine the nation’s the effects of President Trump’s immigration system by presi- four-year assault on immigration. dents from both parties, including Under the proposal that Mr. Bi- George W. Bush and Barack den will send to Congress on his Obama. As the Biden era opens, first day in office, current recipi- advocates for immigrants and ents of Deferred Action for Child- anti-immigrant restrictionists hood Arrivals, known as “Dream- alike are bracing for the fight. ers,” and others in temporary pro- Immigration was not the only grams that were set up to shield issue Mr. Biden sought to empha- some undocumented immigrants size on the eve of his inauguration from deportation would be al- as the nation’s 46th president. In a lowed to immediately apply for somber sundown ceremony at the permanent legal residency, ac- Lincoln Memorial on Tuesday, Mr. cording to transition officials who Biden paid tribute to the victims of were briefed on Mr. Biden’s plan. the pandemic that he has pledged The legislation would also re- to aggressively tame. store and expand programs for “To heal we must remember,” TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES refugees and asylum seekers af- Mr. Biden said, standing in front of INAUGURATION EVE Joseph R. Biden Jr., Kamala Harris and their spouses at a coronavirus memorial at the Reflecting Pool. Page A15. ter efforts by Mr. Trump and the Reflecting Pool, which was Stephen Miller, the White House surrounded by 400 lights meant to aide who was the architect of the mark the 400,000 victims of the president’s immigration agenda, coronavirus. Leaving Office It’s the Dawn of an Era. The Nation Is Exhausted. to effectively prevent entry into At the heart of Mr. Biden’s im- the United States for those seek- migration plan is a proposal to end, but as a purely technical mat- ing shelter from poverty, violence grant temporary legal status for To Face Future ter, Mr. Trump will no longer be and war. Mr. Biden’s bill would five years to many of the estimat- This article is by Campbell Rob- Moving Past Four Years ed 11 million undocumented immi- ertson, Elizabeth Dias and Miriam the president on Wednesday af- provide new funding for foreign Of Fiscal Peril Jordan. of the Never-Ending ternoon. His departure will leave aid for Central American coun- Continued on Page A13 a country that is divided, impas- PITTSBURGH — For four Trump News Cycle sioned, fearful, radicalized — and years, David Betras has been un- worn out. By RUSS BUETTNER able to escape Donald J. Trump. “It was like, like a car horn,” Mr. and SUSANNE CRAIG The president has visited Youngs- Betras said of the perpetual news New Evidence Not long after he strides across town, Ohio, the seat of Mr. Betras’s get him out. He was just every- cycles of the last four years. the White House grounds on home county. So have the presi- where. It was like an omnipres- “You’re having dinner, you know, Of Conspiracy Wednesday morning for the last dent’s children. People Mr. Betras ence.” and initially, the car horn doesn’t time as president, Donald J. had known for years became in For Mr. Betras and so many oth- bother you. But after about an Trump will step into a financial thrall to Mr. Trump. There was no ers, this was life in the Trump era: hour, you’re looking around: ‘Will Among Rioters minefield that appears to be un- getting away on Facebook, on In- four years of waking up every someone shut that car horn like anything he has faced since stagram, at the local bar. morning to a new revelation, an off?!’” his earlier brushes with collapse. “In the last four years, has there impulsive tweet, a mass protest, a Political conflicts that once sim- This article is by Charlie Savage, The tax records that he has long been a day when Trump wasn’t strange new celebrity from the po- mered stayed on a permanent Adam Goldman and Neil MacFarquhar. fought to keep hidden, revealed in somewhere in your orbit?” said litical fringe, an impeachment or rolling boil. A greater share of vot- WASHINGTON — In the days a New York Times investigation Mr. Betras, the former chairman two, another thing to argue about ers showed up at the polls in 2020 leading up to the Jan. 6 riot, Thom- last September, detailed his finan- of the Mahoning County Demo- and lose friends over. There is no than in over a century, following a as Edward Caldwell, an apparent ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES cial challenges: cratic Party. “Every day, I couldn’t telling when the Trump era will Continued on Page A22 leader of the far-right Oath Keep- Many of his resorts were losing ers, had a message for the militia Mitch McConnell said a riot- millions of dollars a year even be- members he had organized to mo- ous crowd had been “fed lies.” fore the pandemic struck. Hun- bilize against Congress: “This ket- dreds of millions of dollars in tle is set to boil.” loans, which he personally guar- Court documents unsealed on anteed, must be repaid within a Tuesday said Mr. Caldwell, a 66- Senate Leader few years. He has burned through year-old from rural Virginia, ad- much of his cash and easy-to-sell vised the others on Dec. 31, “It be- assets. And a decade-old I.R.S. au- gins for real Jan 5 and 6 on Wash- Says President dit threatens to cost him more ington D.C. when we mobilize in than $100 million to resolve. the streets. Let them try to certify ‘Provoked’ Mob In his earlier dark moments, some crud on capitol hill with a Mr. Trump was able to rescue million or more patriots in the businesses he runs with multi- streets.” By NICHOLAS FANDOS million-dollar infusions from his Mr. Caldwell and two associates father or licensing deals borne of from Ohio — Donovan Crowl, 50, Senator Mitch McConnell flatly his television celebrity. Those life- and Jessica Watkins, 38 — were blamed President Trump on Tues- lines are gone. And his divisive charged with conspiracy to com- day for the violent rampage at the presidency has eroded the main- mit federal crimes. All three had Capitol on Jan. 6, saying that the stream marketability of the brand admitted to invading the Capitol mob that stormed the building that is at the heart of his business. to reporters and were also identifi- had been “fed lies” and “provoked That trend has accelerated with able in videos posted on social me- by the president” to carry out its his evidence-free campaign to dia. assault. subvert the outcome of the presi- The case revealed the first evi- Mr. McConnell’s remarks, on dential election, which culminated dence of planning among a known the eve of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s in- in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. militia group ahead of the day of auguration, were the clearest sig- In its wake, his last-ditch lender chaotic mob violence. Investiga- nal yet from the most powerful Re- vowed to cut him off. The P.G.A. tors have said they are increas- publican left in Washington that canceled an upcoming champi- ingly focused on right-wing extre- after four years of excusing and onship at a Trump golf course, and ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES mist groups to determine whether enabling Mr. Trump, he has come New York City moved to strip him GUARDING CAPITOL HILL Members of the National Guard at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in any plotted aspects of the attack to regard the departing president Continued on Page A22 Washington on Tuesday. Security was tight throughout the city ahead of the inauguration. on the Capitol in advance, even as as a force who could drag down most of the rioters spontaneously the party if he is not firmly excised stormed it. by its leaders. Mr. Caldwell had advised militia Mr. McConnell, who is said to members to stay in a particular privately believe that Mr. Trump Trump Lost Arizona, but Not His Firm Grip on the State’s G.O.P. Comfort Inn in Washington’s sub- committed impeachable offenses, urbs, according to messages cited gave no indication of whether he The losses are not prompting tionwide are beginning to edge in court documents, advising that would vote to convict Mr. Trump at his impeachment trial on a sin- By JENNIFER MEDINA any sort of soul-searching in the Schism in Party Could away from Trumpism, Arizona is a it offered a good base to “hunt at state Republican Party. case of loyalists doubling down, night” — apparently meaning gle charge of “incitement of insur- In 2016, Arizona Republicans Instead, when the party leader- Solidify a Blue Shift potentially dividing the party in looking for antifa-style left-wing rection.” But it was a notable con- controlled both Senate seats and ship meets this weekend, the most fundamental and irreparable protesters to fight. Ms. Watkins demnation from the senator who delivered a victory to Donald J. pressing items on the agenda will ways. The consequences could be apparently rented a room there will play a leading role in deter- Trump. By 2020, they had lost be censuring three moderate Re- particularly acute in a state that under an assumed name, an F.B.I. mining whether enough Republi- each of those statewide elections, publicans who remain widely pop- wrist for Cindy McCain, the wid- had long been a safe Republican agent said. cans join Democrats to find the and Mr. Trump was one of only ular in Arizona. The all-but-cer- ow of the Senator John McCain; bet, but that has seen a significant Mr. Caldwell appeared virtually president guilty, allowing them to two Republican presidential can- tain state party scolding will not former Senator Jeff Flake and political shift in recent years, in in federal court in Virginia on disqualify him from holding office didates to lose the state in more have any practical impact, but the Gov. Doug Ducey. large part because of both the in- Tuesday, pledging to fight the in the future. than 50 years. symbolism is stark: a slap on the While some Republicans na- Continued on Page A20 Continued on Page A23 Continued on Page A23

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