After noting pardons of previous administrations, including Trump’s pardons and the proposed preemptive pardons for Biden to issue for "lawmakers and officials deemed enemies of the MAGA movement," The Nation DC Bureau Chief Chris Lehmann wrote, "So let me float a modest proposal: To redeem the use of the pardon power, Biden should disburse it far and wide."
"One obvious use of it, which would yield robust moral and political benefits, would be to grant a preemptive pardon to undocumented (and documented) immigrants now facing the prospect of indiscriminate mass deportation when Trump takes office next month—people who entered the country illegally within the last 20 years, who are currently awaiting an asylum decision, or are under the age of 12," Lehmann wrote, noting that the idea was encountered on Blueksy.
