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Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News – Special LIRS mention!
As part of its overhaul of U.S. refugee policy, the Biden administration is planning to offer humanitarian refuge to more children fleeing violence around the world, according to a government report obtained by CBS News. The report, prepared by the State Department to notify the House and Senate Judiciary Committees of President…
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Juan Montes and José de Córdoba, The Wall Street Journal
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador became an unlikely ally of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s migration policies, deploying thousands of soldiers across Mexico to stop Central American asylum seekers heading toward the 2,000-mile border. Now, President Biden is preparing to undo much of Mr. Trump’s immigration legacy, while…
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Burgess Everett and Marianne Levine, POLITICO
An effort to restrict stimulus checks to undocumented immigrants is blowing a hole in Democrats’ unity in the Biden era, after a bloc of Democrats sided with Republicans over their more progressive colleagues last week. The immigration status of those seeking new stimulus payments is shaping up as a major point of contention among Democrats as the House and…
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Reuters
The Biden administration said on Saturday it was immediately suspending Trump-era asylum agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, part of a bid to undo his Republican predecessor’s hardline immigration policies. In a statement, State Department Secretary Antony Blinken said the United States had “suspended and initiated the process to terminate the…
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Biden signs order to ramp up refugee admissions and plans to allocate 125,000 spots next fiscal year
Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News - special LIRS mention!
President Biden issued an executive order on Thursday to increase refugee admissions and allow the U.S. to set a goal of providing safe haven to 125,000 people around the world fleeing violence, conflict and persecution during his first full fiscal year in office. In the order, Mr. Biden called for an…
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Biden vows to allow more refugees into the United States
Hannah Miao, CNBC
President Joe Biden announced Thursday he plans to raise the cap on refugees allowed to enter the U.S. as he inherits a resettlement program whittled down by former President Donald Trump. “Today, I’m approving an executive order to begin the hard work of restoring our refugee admissions program to help meet the unprecedented global need,” Biden said. “It’s going to take time to rebuild what has been so…
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Michael D. Shear (@shearm) and Zolan Kanno-Youngs (@KannoYoungs), The New York Times
President Biden moved cautiously on Tuesday to confront the most intractable immigration issues that his predecessor left behind: reuniting migrant children separated from their families, rebuilding a working asylum system and restoring opportunities for foreign workers and students to enter…
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Biden Plans to Roll Back Trump’s Refugee, Asylum Crackdowns
Jordan Fabian and Justin Sink, Bloomberg
President Joe Biden will sign a trio of executive orders on Tuesday to reverse Donald Trump’s crackdown on asylum seekers and refugees, continuing his push to loosen his predecessor’s strict immigration policies. White House officials said Biden’s orders were designed to reverse policies they described as cruel and wasteful, while promoting inclusion and the integration…
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Biden delays orders to reverse Trump-era immigration changes, create task force for separated families
CBS News
President Biden plans to undo one of the Trump administration's immigration restrictions as he delays work on others. Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, the president and CEO of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, spoke to CBSN's Tanya Rivero about the impact of immigration policy changes and the tough road ahead to reunite families separated by the U.S. government.
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