Washington, DC – US President Joe Biden is expected to issue a raft of new immigration orders in the coming days that will reverse policies championed by his predecessor, Donald Trump, including on asylum at the United States-Mexico border and the reunification of migrant families.
Biden took office last month after winning the backing of progressives and immigrant communities through a promise, among others, to chip away at Trump’s hardline stance against immigration.
Tom Jawetz, an immigration expert at the liberal Center for American Progress think-tank, said Biden faces a tough road ahead to overturn the legacy of the Trump administration, which over the past four years enacted a comprehensive and interconnected system of barriers.
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The Pause on Deportations Is the First Step Toward a Fair, Humane, and Workable System and Must Move Forward
January 27, 2021, 1:01 pm
From the earliest days of the Trump administration, extreme and disturbing stories emerged of families and communities being ripped apart by a bolstered and increasingly aggressive Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Over the past four years, anyone in the United States without legal status became a priority for enforcement, leading to an agency that focused on arresting, among others, parents dropping their children off at school, survivors of domestic violence seeking protective orders at courts, and a 10-year-old child in an ambulance on the way to the hospital for emergency surgery. This ill-advised and cruel approach culminated in the horrific practice of separating children from their parents at the border, an action the Trump administration undertook knowing full well that it would be nearly impossible to reunite all of the families i
Once maligned, immigrants deemed the pandemic’s ‘essential workers’ may find a citizenship path
‘I have worked so hard in this country, giving it my all for 25 years.’
Jacoba arranges the rosaries hanging next to the altar that she has in her living room. She is one of an estimated 4 million to 5 million unauthorized immigrants who are essential workers.(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer)
Jacoba has sliced and packed chicken fillets at a processing factory and cooked savory stews in a restaurant kitchen, keeping people fed at her two jobs.
But for the past 24 years, the Mexican immigrant, who asked that her last name not be published because she lacks legal immigration status, has feared a deportation agent might pop up at any time.
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Hill Democrats may be fine with that. Even immigration reform advocates say they’d understand.
Taken together, Joe Biden’s legislative immigration plan and swift unilateral actions present a clear departure from the last time a Democrat was in the White House. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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When President Joe Biden unveiled an immigration bill on the first day in office, he sent a signal to advocates, the Democratic base, and Congress that the issue was a top priority for him.
But even as the president and Democrats on the Hill begin the heavy lift of turning a priority into law, the White House is weighing taking a secondary path: doing it piece by piece.
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