Biden executive orders5/20/2023 CNN previously reported that first lady Jill Biden is expected to take an active role in the task force. The task force will be chaired by the Department of Homeland Security secretary and work across the US government, along with partners, to find parents separated from their children under the former administration. RELATED: Justice Department was unprepared for family separations but Jeff Sessions pushed it anyway, watchdog says 'It's frustrating': Thousands of migrants sit in Mexico desperate for answers from the Biden administration The administration’s new task force stems from that promise.Ī young Honduran asylum seeker waits with her family on the international bridge from Mexico to the United States in December 2019 next to the border town of Matamoros, Mexico. ![]() The Senate voted 56-43 on Tuesday to confirm Mayorkas as Homeland Security secretary, the first Latino and immigrant to serve at the helm of the department.Ĭreating a task force to reunify familiesĭuring his presidential campaign, Biden pledged to set up a task force focused on identifying and reunifying families separated at the US-Mexico border under the Trump administration’s controversial “zero tolerance” policy. RELATED: Biden asks Supreme Court to delay oral arguments on border wall and asylum rule Last week, for example, a federal judge temporarily blocked Biden’s 100-day pause on deportations, as the case proceeds. But his administration has already faced legal hurdles in implementing those policies. He also sent an immigration bill to Congress. Hours into his presidency, Biden moved to swiftly undo many Trump administration policies in a series of executive actions. “We hope to hear more hard logistics soon,” she added. The orders signed Tuesday largely direct reviews of policies and do not have an immediate impact, concerning immigration advocates and attorneys scrambling for answers on the future of migrants subject to Trump-era policies.Īlida Garcia, vice president of advocacy at FWD.us, told CNN she was excited about Tuesday’s announcements, but noted that there’s also “frustration around the urgency that exists for service providers to have clarity in their ability to advise people in life or death situations.” “This is about how America’s safer, stronger, more prosperous when we have a fair, orderly, and humane legal immigration system,” Biden said. ![]() “I’m not making new law, I’m eliminating bad policy,” Biden said at the White House, flanked by Vice President Kamala Harris and newly confirmed Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, of the stream of executive orders he’s signed as President. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images) Robert Alexander/Getty Imagesīiden asks Supreme Court to delay oral arguments on border wall and asylum rule Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., is the seat of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Judicial Branch of government.
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