Biden s Executive Actions: President Unilaterally Changes Immigration Policy
By Robert Law
on March 15, 2021
Robert Law is the director of regulatory affairs and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies. He would like to thank Josh Timko for his extensive research and analysis that informed the substance of this Backgrounder on the Biden immigration executive actions.
President Biden issued over three dozen executive actions during his first month in office, many of them focused on immigration. Some of the immigration executive actions revoked Trump administration immigration policies and introduced sweeping new policies, while others were more messaging documents with little-to-no practical impact. While the pace of immigration-specific executive actions has slowed recently, it is expected that the Biden administration will continue to rely on executive actions as a tool to reshape immigration policy throughout his term. This
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Biden Administration Hesitant on Message for Migrants
The administration is struggling to communicate a promising message to migrants while also urging them to not cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
President Joe Biden’s coordinator for the southern border, Ambassador Roberta Jacobson, recognized the administration is struggling to communicate a promising message to migrants while also urging them to not cross the U.S.-Mexico border until the immigration system is set in stone. “I think, when you look at the issue of mixed messages, it is difficult at times to convey both hope in the future and the danger that is now. And that is what we’re trying to do,” Jacobson said as the number of migrants grew at the border this past week. Smugglers, on the other hand, are spreading the word that the border is ready for a huge flow of migrants.
U.S. Will Provide Temporary Legal Status for More Than 300,000 Venezuelans
Venezuelan immigrants already in the U.S. will be able to live and work in the country for 18 months under the Biden decision.
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The Biden administration announced on Monday it will provide over 300,000 Venezuelan immigrants already in the U.S. with a temporary protected status that will let them live and work in the country for 18 months. In a statement, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it made the decision based on extraordinary and temporary conditions in Venezuela that will not allow people to return home safely. Former President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Jan. 19 to defer the deportation of Venezuelans for 18 months. After the order was issued, the Migration Policy Institute approximated that nearly 150,000 Venezuelan immigrants could b
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In a mass effort to reunite immigrant children separated from their families by the Trump Administration, 112 parents have already been found. Of the 499 children in focus, 322 parents are thought by lawyers to have been deported. Some parents agreed to deportation in hopes that their children would be granted asylum and safety in U.S. custody; instead, countless children have sat in government holding facilities for years, and a number have gone missing through a flawed foster placement system. The Biden administration has appointed a task force to find the parents of as many of these children as possible, but with some having been detained for years, the task is proving to be a daunting one.