Still, chaotic responses to high levels of migration at the southern border and lack of progress on two key Biden campaign promises-legalization for the country’s unauthorized immigrant population and rebuilding a border asylum system largely dismantled during the prior administration-have fueled public perception that the administration has done little on immigration. The administration also has acted to protect as many as 1 million noncitizens from deportation and give them eligibility to apply for a work permit by expanding Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals from Venezuela and Myanmar who are already in the United States extending TPS designations that Trump sought to terminate for other nationalities but was blocked by the courts from carrying out and by allowing certain victims of crime who are petitioning for a U visa to receive deferred action while awaiting their visa adjudication. entry and to accessing immigration benefits and raising the refugee resettlement ceiling to 125,000. The Biden administration’s actions cover a wide range of issues-greatly narrowing the number of unauthorized immigrants vulnerable to arrest, detention and removal lifting some barriers to U.S. Of Biden’s 296 immigration actions, 89 have reversed or started to undo Trump policies, making clear the administration is doing more than unraveling his predecessor’s policies. Yet as Biden reaches his first anniversary in the White House, a new Migration Policy Institute (MPI) analysis finds that he has outpaced his predecessor in the number of executive actions taken during his first year in office, making significant change in the areas of humanitarian protection, interior and border enforcement and legal immigration.ĭuring his first 364 days as president, Biden took 296 executive actions on immigration-as compared to 86 during Trump's first year and 472 during the entire Trump presidency, analysts Muzaffar Chishti and Jessica Bolter write in a new article for MPI’s online journal, the Migration Information Source. Immigrant-rights activists accuse the president of delay in unraveling hard-line actions taken during Donald Trump’s presidency and conservatives are critical of what they see as inaction to rising flows at the U.S.-Mexico border. "These are just all starting points."Īides said the actions the Democratic president signed included a mask mandate on federal property and for federal employees, an order to establish a new White House office co-ordinating the response to the coronavirus and halting the process of withdrawing from the World Health Organization.WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden’s administration is being criticized across the political spectrum for moving too slowly on immigration. "Some of the executive actions I'm going to be signing today are going to help change the course of the COVID crisis, we're going to combat climate change in a way that we haven't done so far and advance racial equity and support other underserved communities" said Biden. Signing several actions in front of reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon, Biden said there was "no time to waste" in issuing the executive orders, memorandums and directives. President Joe Biden signed 15 executive actions shortly after being sworn in on Wednesday, undoing policies put in place by his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump, and making his first moves on the pandemic and climate change.
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