President Joe Biden signed three immigration-related executive orders in the Oval Office Tuesday, with the intent to remove the stain of President Donald Trump s policies like child separation.
The actions, aimed at undoing the Trump immigration legacy, largely call for reviews, planning and recommendations not necessarily new policies to implement.
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President Biden’s administration pledged early executive action to swiftly undo many of his predecessor’s policies to remake the U.S. immigration system. But in Biden’s first weeks in office, officials have found themselves pleading for patience, saying they are constrained by President Trump’s tangle of executive orders and administrative restrictions on immigration, as well as by public health concerns amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Tuesday, Biden signed a series of executive orders and directives on immigration that primarily call for the review of, rather than an end to, Trump policies that the new administration has said it would get rid of, according to Biden officials who previewed the actions. These include the program known as “Remain in Mexico,” under which thousands of asylum seekers remain stuck at the border, and the “public charge” rule, which essentially requires a wealth test for immigrants.
The president condemned immigration abuses from the past four years, beginning with a mandate to reunite separated families.
Children line up to enter a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Fla., in 2019. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
WASHINGTON (CN) Continuing his rollback of the last administration’s hardline immigration agenda, President Joe Biden called for major reforms to the country’s asylum programs Tuesday and is working to reunite the thousands of families separated at the border.
Biden signed three executive orders Tuesday evening, beginning what will likely be a long slog to undo the more than 400 immigration-related executive actions taken by former President Donald Trump since 2017.