The DePaulia
Nadia Hernandez, Assistant News Editor|February 7, 2021
President Joe Biden signed four executive orders to promote racial equity in his first two weeks in office.
The orders included reaffirming tribal sovereignty, ending federal funding in private prisons, condemning discrmination against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and ending discrimination in federal housing policy.
“I think they’re a good start,” said College Democrats of Illinois President Daniel Green. “I was most interested in the executive order that the Federal through the Department of Justice is using private prisons because that’s a really important step. The idea that no one should make a profit off of incarceration is really important to racial justice and obviously I don’t think it goes far enough, but it’s a really good start.”