President-elect
Joe Biden plans to address the COVID-19 crisis within his first ten days in office, and ask Congress to prioritize offering legal status to an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country.
On Saturday, Biden’s Chief of Staff
Ron Klain sent a memo to incoming White House advisers about the executive actions that he plans to sign in the first ten days of his administration.
“We face four overlapping and compounding crises: the COVID-19 crisis, the resulting economic crisis, the climate crisis, and a racial equity crisis. All of these crises demand urgent action,” Klain wrote, per PEOPLE. “In his first ten days in office, President-elect Biden will take decisive action to address these four crises, prevent other urgent and irreversible harms, and restore America’s place in the world.”
Thousands of US-bound Honduran migrants are beaten back with batons and tear-gas by masked Guatemalan security forces as Joe Biden unveils immigration reform
Guatemalan security forces removed Honduran migrants from a road as they sought to advance to the Mexican border and continue their path to the U.S.
Footage shows soldiers and cops pushing away some of the 8,000 asylum seekers who made it into Guatemala over the weekend
Guatemala authorities report at least 21 Honduran migrants have tested positive for COVID-19
Over 1,000 migrants were sent back to Honduras on Sunday and an additional 100 were returned to El Salvador
President-elect Joe Biden plans to introduce legislation on his first day of office, Wednesday, to address a path to citizenship for 11 million people estimated to be living in the country illegally
President-elect Joe Biden will announce legislation his first day in office that provides a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally.