Migrants will no longer be separated from their children, legal migration will be opened up, and American citizenship will be easier to obtain. Joe Biden signed executive orders reversing policies of the previous administration.
U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday, February 2, reversed the migration policy vector that had been in effect under the Trump administration with three executive orders. As a first step, he announced the creation of a task force to reunite the families of migrants apprehended while illegally crossing the border. Under Trump, there was a practice of separating these migrants from their children, which drew criticism both at home and abroad.
Biden’s other moves are aimed at making it easier for migrants to obtain U.S. citizenship and at combating the reasons pushing them to migrate. He called Donald Trump’s policies a “moral and national disgrace.” Many of his predecessor’s decisions will now be tested and reviewed, Biden promised, wanting to create conditions for legal migration to the United States, which will have to be coordinated by the U.S. federal authorities.
With his first decrees as president, Biden demonstrated his willingness to reverse all U.S. domestic and foreign policies: returning to the Paris climate agreement, stopping the procedure of withdrawal from the World Health Organization, as well as stopping the legal grounds for building a wall on the border with Mexico.