On Wednesday, Joe Biden’s inauguration took place and he has become the 46th President of the United States. He issued a raft of executive orders that undoes many of his predecessor’s hallmark initiatives. The recently issued executive orders of Biden include halting work on a border wall with Mexico, lifting a travel ban on people from several predominantly Muslim countries, and reversing plans to exclude people in the country illegally from the 2020 census. US President Joe Biden also ordered his cabinet to work to preserve Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. It was a program known as DACA that has shielded hundreds of thousands of people who came to the US as children from deportation since it was introduced in 2012.
Moreover, he is extending temporary legal status to Liberians who fled civil war and the Ebola outbreak to June 2022. Biden’s most ambitious proposal was announced on Wednesday. It is an immigration bill that would give legal status and a path to citizenship to anyone in the United States before 1st January. Point to be noted that an estimated 11 million people and reduce the time that family members must wait outside the United States for green cards. Biden’s plans represent a sharp U-turn after 4-years of relentless strikes against immigration. The US authorities have captured most vividly by the separation of thousands of children from their parents under a “zero tolerance” policy on illegal border crossings.
The former US President Trump’s administration also took hundreds of other steps to enhance enforcement, limit eligibility for asylum, and cut legal immigration. Biden’s package dispels any belief that his policies would resemble those of former President Barack Obama, who promised a sweeping bill his first year in office but waited 5 years while logging more than 2 million deportations. Biden aides signaled that it will take time to unwind some of Trump’s border policies, which include making the asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in US immigration court. Biden’s National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan said, “It will take months to be fully up and running in terms of being able to do the kind of asylum processing that we want to be able to do”.