The New York Times reports that administration officials say President Biden will sign three immigration-related executive orders on the 2nd, overturning regulations from former President Trump‘s presidency, including “zero tolerance” (zero tolerance) measures for breaking up undocumented immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The report pointed out that in one of the executive orders, Biden will instruct the Secretary of Homeland Security to lead a task force to reunite hundreds of undocumented immigrant families who were separated during Trump’s tenure.
Officials pointed out that the other two Biden executive orders will be a comprehensive review of Trump’s immigration policy, including limiting asylum applications, stopping the foreign aid program, and raising the threshold for applying for a green card or naturalization to slow down legal immigration into the United States.
The report pointed out that Biden Administration officials in the evening of the first has been to the media first explained the outline of the executive order Biden will sign.
During the campaign, Biden promised to overturn Trump’s immigration policies after he took office. However, senior government officials in the evening of the 1st media briefing pointed out that after the release of Biden’s executive order, there will be no immediate changes, but to give the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the State Department Time to assess, if the abolition of Trump’s immigration policy, what the best way should be taken.
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