Democrat Lawmakers Demand Immediate Action on Illegal Immigrant Work Authorization Delays

Illegal immigrants wait to be taken by Border Patrol to a processing facility to begin their asylum-seeking process in Eagle Pass, Texas, on June 25, 2023. Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images

House Democrats sent letters to Biden administration officials asking that the federal government change the way illegal immigrants are treated once inside the United States.

In the letters to President Joe Biden and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, 103 Democrats were led by Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.)—the respective ranking members of the House Judiciary Committee and Immigration Subcommittee.