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Biden prepares new immigration measures but deportations continue

2021-02-02T12:49:35.031Z


The president plans to sign three executive orders on Tuesday that include measures to identify and reunify separated families at the border, review the 'Stay in Mexico' program and study changes in the public charge rule.


President Joe Biden plans to sign

three executive orders on immigration

Tuesday

that include measures to identify and reunify separated families at the border, review the 'Stay in Mexico' program for asylum seekers and study changes to the public charge rule. that makes it difficult to access

green cards

, according to its Administration.

All of them are

immigration policies established by the Administration of the previous president, Donald Trump

.

"President Biden's strategy centers on the basic premise that our country is safer, stronger, and more prosperous" with an immigration system "that welcomes immigrants, keeps families together, and enables newcomers and those who have lived here for generations contribute more fully [to the development of] our country, "said senior government officials when announcing the measures. 

[Pause in deportations for 100 days and a path to citizenship in 8 years: Biden begins his government with plans for major immigration changes]

Meanwhile, on another aspect that causes great concern to many immigrants - the danger of being deported - Biden's promise to intervene immediately to guarantee relief to those affected

has not yet been reflected in effective changes

The president ordered many deportations to be halted for 100 days, but a federal judge temporarily blocked his directive, alleging that this action was taken irregularly, after Texas filed a lawsuit against it. 

[He survived the El Paso shooting and testified against the killer.

But this week she was deported to Mexico]

In the first 13 days of Biden's tenure, hundreds of immigrants were deported to various countries, including a witness to the massacre of Latinos in El Paso, Texas.

It is not clear how many of them were considered dangerous subjects or had just arrived in the United States, two aspects considered a priority to be expelled by the new government.

Legal experts assure that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE, for its acronym in English),

has the power not to carry out deportations

beyond the order of the federal judge, according to the news agency The Associated Press. 

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One of the measures that the president plans to take this Tuesday is the creation of a working group dedicated to identifying and reunifying migrant children separated from their parents at the border under the Trump Administration, according to senior officials of the current government, who defined this policy " a moral failure and a national shame ”. 

"No one really knows" how many there are at the moment, although it is estimated that there may be "up to 1,000," these sources added.

Asked whether separated family members who are now outside the United States are planning to return, Administration officials said the task force will make recommendations on

how to deal with these cases individually

['Stay in Mexico': a year of chaos, improvisation and despair for Central American migrants]

Another of the executive orders that Biden has prepared for this Tuesday instructs the Department of Homeland Security a review of the policy known as Stay in Mexico - officially, Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP, in English) -, implemented by Trump to force Asylum seekers on the southern border to wait for the resolution of their cases on the Mexican side, which has left tens of thousands of people

stranded for months in dangerous border cities of the neighboring country

Biden had already suspended the program so that no new cases are included in it.

However, its officials

have not clarified what will happen to the people who are currently in Mexico

, claiming that "the situation at the border will not change overnight" but that alternatives are being worked on.

More than 300 migrants deported from the United States and Mexico arrive in Honduras

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In addition, the same executive order raises the need to help migrants' countries of origin to combat the problems that cause them to emigrate and collaborate with governments and NGOs to "improve their capacity to accept migrants." 

In a third executive order, Biden will ask to

review measures imposed by Trump that made it difficult for the undocumented to access legal status

, such as obtaining

green cards

and naturalization. 

For this, actions are planned such as changing the public charge rule that prevents access to permanent residence for beneficiaries of certain public aid, reducing the fees to request citizenship, reestablishing exemptions for this and alleviating the administrative workload due to accumulation. of requests. 

With information from NBC News and AP. 

Source: telemundo

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