Sacramento Bee, Fox40 quote Dean Johnson on President Biden's immigration plans

President Joe Biden, on his first day in office on Jan. 20, took several actions related to immigration. Dean Kevin R. Johnson, an immigration law expert, spoke to The Sacramento Bee and Sacramento's Fox40 news about Biden's plans.

Johnson talked to the Bee about Biden’s U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, which the president sent to Congress. The plan would provide a pathway to citizenship to the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. Read the story

Fox40 asked Johnson about Biden's executive actions, which included halting construction on a wall with Mexico and ending the travel ban targeting primarily majority-Muslim countries. The president is “offering a new start,” Johnson told Fox40. Watch the report

Kevin R. Johnson is law school dean, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and professor of Chicana/o studies at UC Davis. He is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of immigration law and policy, refugee law, and civil rights.