0:08 – On the transfer of power, the Biden Presidency with a Democrat majority in Congress, challenges ahead and more.
John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) is a National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation.
0:34 – KPFA News: A raft of executive orders by President Biden aims to undo many of his predecessor’s hallmark initiatives on immigration, such as halting work on a border wall with Mexico and lifting a travel ban from several predominantly Muslim countries. Biden’s Homeland Security Department announced a 100-day deportation moratorium and halt to returning asylum-seekers to Mexico to wait for hearings in U.S. immigration court. He ordered efforts to preserve Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a program known as DACA, and he also extended temporary legal status to Liberians who fled civil war and the Ebola outbreak to June 2022.
That’s not it. Biden’s most ambitious proposal is an immigration bill that would give legal status and a path to citizenship to anyone in the United States before Jan. 1 — an estimated 11 million people — New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez says he will introduce the legislation in the Senate. The bill faces an enormous test in Congress-even with Democrats in control. KPFA’s Christina Aanestad reports.
0:38 – Newly Elected Oakland City Council Member, Carroll Fife
Carroll Fife (@carroll_fife) is the Councilmember for Oakland’s District 3. One of the founding members of Moms for Housing, Carroll has fought both in the halls of power and in the streets to protect the human right to housing.