Illegal Immigrant Crisis Could Thwart Citizenship Push for 'Dreamers,' Laborers

Central American migrants who managed to cross illegally into the U.S. in order to seek asylum, wait in line to get a meal from a charitable organization at a park after they were sent back to Mexico by U.S. border authorities in Reynosa, Mexico Friday, March 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

By    |   Monday, 29 March 2021 07:56 AM EDT ET

Democrats have long prioritized establishing a "pathway to citizenship" for the more than 11 million illegal immigrants estimated to be living in the U.S., and with the party controlling the House, Senate and White House, the early months of 2021 appeared to be Democrats' best shot at turning the legislation to law.

But as a record number of illegal immigrants push through the southern border in the early weeks of the Biden administration, those plans have been imperiled.

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