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He is working to roll back many of his predecessor s restrictive policies.
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Biden signs executive orders to undo Trump immigration policies
The orders aim to reform the U.S. immigration system and roll back previous policies, including by creating a task force aimed at reuniting children who were separated from their families.John Moore/Getty Images
President Joe Biden signed three executive orders on Tuesday aimed at reforming the U.S. immigration system and rolling back his predecessor s policies, including creating a task force aimed at reuniting children who American authorities separated from their families on the border.
Biden creating task force to reunite families separated at the border
ABCNews President Joe Biden signed three executive orders on Tuesday aimed at reforming the U.S. immigration system and rolling back his predecessor s policies, including creating a task force aimed at reuniting children who American authorities separated from their families on the border.
He said, I m not making new law, I m eliminating bad policy.
Chaired by the homeland security secretary, the task force will work to identify all families broken apart under the various forms of the Trump administration s zero-tolerance policy, which separated children from relatives at the U.S. border, even before it became an official policy, a senior Biden administration official said.
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As President Joe Biden recently unveiled his plan to reform U.S. immigration policy, some legacy national and local media outlets have been quoting well-known anti-immigrant extremist groups to provide commentary on the plan.
Days before he was sworn in as president, Biden disclosed that he was going to propose ambitious plans for an “overhaul of immigration laws” on his first day in office, including creating “an eight-year pathway to citizenship for immigrants without legal status.” Qualifying immigrants would receive a temporary status for five years and then a green card once they meet certain requirements, becoming eligible to apply for citizenship three years later.
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John Wall, our house environmentalist, red-pencils The New York Times attack on the Federation for American Immigration Reform s sprawl ads.]
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immigrants. ] FAIR s broadcast and print ads highlight the ills associated with suburban sprawl, then point to immigration as the underlying culprit. [
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