White House says Joe Biden eager to fix 'broken' immigration system

President Joe Biden is keen that the US Congress should quickly fix America's "broken immigration system, for which he has already sent in a legislation, the White House has said.

In February, the Biden administration introduced an ambitious immigration bill in Congress which among other things proposes to eliminate the per-country cap for employment-based green cards.

The US Citizenship Act of 2021 proposes a pathway to citizenship to 11 million undocumented workers, elimination of per country quota for employment-based green cards and work authorisation for dependents of H-1B foreign workers.

The president...believes that there should be faster processing, that our immigration system is broken at many levels and of the system and that he is eager for Congress to move forward with action there, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Wednesday at her daily news conference.

She was responding to a question on the recent protest by Indian-American doctors who are ...