“The president has made clear, and this administration has made clear, that we are going to pursue an effective and humane immigration policy and unwind what we believe was the ineffective and inhumane policy over the course of the last four years,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan ADVERTISEMENT But the administration hasn’t made it clear that now isn’t the time to come (when is, exactly?) and President Biden’s actions from the Oval Office desk have sent an entirely different message. On his first day in the White House and just hours after he was inaugurated, Biden signed an executive order halting the vast majority of deportations for 100 days. Despite the order being halted by a federal judge a week later, the damage was already done and the race to the border from the Northern Triangle was on.