Biden's 2 steps on immigration could reframe how U.S. voters see a major political problem for him

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Over the course of two weeks, U.S. President Joe Biden has imposed significant restrictions on immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. while also offering potential citizenship to hundreds of thousands of people without legal status already living in the country.

The tandem actions — the first to help immigrants illegally in the U.S., the second to prevent others from entering at the border — give the president a chance to address one of the biggest vulnerabilities for his reelection campaign.

Helping people long established in the country obtain citizenship, meanwhile, might defuse criticism of immigration advocates and liberal parts of Biden's Democratic coalition who opposed the new border restrictions unveiled earlier this month.An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll conducted in March found that only about three in 10 Americans approved of Biden’s handling of immigration. A similar share approved of his handling of border security.

Van Callaway, a hairstylist from Mesa, Arizona, who voted for Biden four years ago, was disappointed to hear the president was making it harder to claim asylum. But they were also skeptical that the president's plan to help legalize spouses who are married to U.S. citizens could come to fruition. With congressional Republicans “refusing to address our broken immigration system,” the administration “has taken action to secure our border and to keep American families together in the United States,” said Angelo Fernández Hernández, a White House spokesman.

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