President Biden To Sign Immigration Executive Orders And Establish Task Force To Reunite Separated Families
This Tuesday, President Joe Biden will sign three executive orders aimed at reversing his predecessor’s assault on immigration and at reuniting migrant children who were separated from their families at the Mexican border.
According to CNBC citing admiration officials, one executive order will create a task force to reunite children who were separated from their parents under Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy. The task force will be chaired by the homeland security secretary. Administration officials did not yet have details on the scale or timing of the reunification effort. The two other orders to be announced today will call for a review of the changes the Trump administration made to reshape US immigration.
“President Trump was so focused on the wall he did nothing to address the root causes of why are people are coming to our southern border — it was a limited, wasteful and naive strategy, and it failed,” a senior administration official said. “People continue to migrate to the United States — even today — because of it. President Biden’s approach is to deal with immigration comprehensively, fairly, and humanely,” CNN quotes.
As we previously reported, just hours into his presidency, Biden moved to undo many Trump administration policies in a series of executive actions.
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