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Factbox: What Biden plans to do next on refugees, separated families and regional migration
Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke, Reuters
U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to issue executive orders on asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, refugee resettlement and the reunification of migrant families, according to a Biden transition team memo shared with lawmakers and recent comments by an administration official. The orders had been planned for Friday, according to the memo and…
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DOJ rescinds ‘zero tolerance’ immigration rule
Michael Balsamo and Colleen Long, AP
The Justice Department rescinded a Trump-era memo that established a “zero tolerance” enforcement policy for migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, which resulted in thousands of family separations. Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson issued the new memo to federal prosecutors across the nation on Tuesday, saying the department would return to its longstanding previous policy…
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BREAKING: Texas Court Blocks Biden's Deportation Freeze
Jennifer Doherty, Law360
A Texas federal judge granted a temporary restraining order on Tuesday barring the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from pausing most deportations nationwide while it conducts an internal review, finding that the department may have violated immigration statutes.
Covid-19 Pandemic Pushes Down Number of Refugee Resettlements
Raja Abdulrahim, Wall Street Journal
A fraction of the nearly 1.5…
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Texas attorney general files lawsuit to block Biden's deportation freeze
Ted Hesson, Reuters
The Texas attorney general filed a lawsuit on Friday that seeks to block U.S. President Joe Biden’s move to pause certain deportations for 100 days, a controversial opening-move by the Democratic president that has provoked blowback from some Republicans. In the court filing on Friday, Paxton argued that the deportation moratorium violated the president’s constitutional duty to…
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U.S. to resume processing thousands of stalled visas for Afghans who aided Americans
Susannah George, The Washington Post
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul will soon resume processing thousands of stalled special visa applications for Afghans who aided U.S. forces after halting visa interviews in March because of the pandemic. A State Department official said the U.S. Embassy in Kabul would begin “a phased resumption” of in-person interviews in February. The official, who spoke on…
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Biden Bets Big on Immigration Changes in Opening Move
Elliot Spagat, AP
For the opening salvo of his presidency, few expected Joe Biden to be so far-reaching on immigration.A raft of executive orders signed Wednesday undoes many of his predecessor’s hallmark initiatives, such as 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…
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Biden unveils immigration proposal that offers green cards and overtime pay to farm workers and a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers
Charles Davis, Business Insider
President Joe Biden is presenting a sweeping immigration reform bill to Congress on his first day in office, prioritizing a sharp rebuke to the Trump years. It would award permanent residency to farm workers who have kept the country fed throughout the pandemic and offer a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers. …
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Biden to propose overhaul of immigration laws on first day in office
Seung Min Kim, Washington Post
President-elect Joe Biden will roll out a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws the day he is inaugurated, including an eight-year pathway to citizenship for immigrants without legal status and an expansion of refugee admissions, along with an enforcement plan that deploys technology to patrol the border. Biden’s legislative proposal, which will be sent to…
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Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ border policy was pushed aggressively by Jeff Sessions, despite warnings, Justice Dept. review finds
Nick Miroff and Matt Zapotosky, Washington Post
The Trump administration and then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions barreled forward with their “zero tolerance” border crackdown in 2018 knowing that the policy would separate migrant children from their parents and despite warnings that the government was ill-prepared to deal with the consequences,…
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ICE's Latest Leader Has Resigned After Just Two Weeks On The Job
Hamed Aleaziz, BuzzFeed News
The acting leader of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement abruptly resigned on Wednesday, just two weeks into the job after the agency’s previous director also stepped down unexpectedly in December, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. The departure of Jonathan Fahey is the latest in a long line of resignations at ICE during the Trump administration. The agency,…
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