The policy has left 60,000 asylum seekers waiting in dangerous border towns. It was a limited, wasteful and naive strategy, and it failed.”īy contrast, backers of the previous administration’s border initiatives said Biden’s orders will lead to chaos and lawlessness.įILE - Asylum seekers in Tijuana, Mexico, listen to names being called from a waiting list to allow them an opportunity to make their case, at a border crossing in San Diego, California, Sept. The official said that Trump “was so focused on the wall that he did nothing to address the root cause of why people are coming to our southern border. “President Biden’s strategy is centered on the basic premise that our country is safe and stronger and more prosperous with a safe, orderly and humane immigration system that welcomes immigrants, keeps families together and allows people - both newly arrived immigrants and people who have lived here for generations - to more fully contribute to our country,” the senior official told reporters. Biden did not take questions from reporters Tuesday. 19, 2019.Īt the ceremony signing the executive orders, Biden said he hoped to remove “the stain” of family separations.
Officials say first lady Jill Biden is expected to play an active role in the effort.įILE - Detained migrant children from Central America line up to enter a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Florida, Feb. One of the orders Biden is signing would establish a task force designed to reunite more than 600 migrant children with their parents after federal authorities had split them up at the border in 20. Trump led repair and expansion of a border wall and imposed tough detention and deportation policies for those who made it across the desolate border terrain and into the United States. citizenship and conservatives seeking to stem unauthorized immigration.īiden’s immediate focus is on the 3,100-kilometer southern border with Mexico, where Trump tried to keep thousands of migrants from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala from entering the U.S.
In the first hours of his presidency two weeks ago, Biden acted to halt construction of Trump’s $16 billion wall along the border and sent a far-reaching immigration bill to Congress, where lawmakers have long been stalemated between liberals looking to ease the path to U.S. I’m eliminating bad policy,” Biden said while signing the orders. President Joe Biden signed executive orders Tuesday to start to dismantle former President Donald Trump’s restrictive immigration policies, including an attempt to reunite families that had been separated at the U.S.-Mexican border.
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