A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked a 100-day pause on deportation. This is the first legal challenge to President Biden’s immigration agenda.
President Biden’s proposed immigration bill demonstrated that he prioritizes immigration reform. Sources have insisted on the importance of progress, which could mean trying to move pieces of the reform through Congress one at a time.
The Biden administration has plans to create a task force dedicated to the reunification of children and parents that were separated at the border as a result of Trump-era immigration policies. Familiar sources report that first lady Jill Biden plans on being a part of this task force to reunite families separated at the border.
Esther Olavarria, the deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council and one of President Biden’s top immigration advisers, told U.S. mayors that President Biden plans to sign an executive order that would rescind the limits set on legal immigration by former President Donald Trump. President Biden may also sign another directive to review the public charge rule.
U.S. border officials were given permission by a three-member panel of circuit judges to utilize an emergency policy from the Trump-era to expel unaccompanied migrant children without an asylum interview or court hearing. Former President Trump appointed all three judges.
This article highlights four recommendations for the Biden-Harris administration to prevent further trauma to immigrant children in the U.S., related to family reunification, children’s development, care and custody of children, and social safety nets for immigrant children and families.
A federal judge is ordering the government to explain why the data regarding missing separated parents was not provided earlier. The hope is that this data could help reunite separated families by sharing information about phone numbers and addresses that could locate the parents of these children.
Relief agencies are facing new challenges to meet demand as undocumented immigrants with citizen children are heading to food pantries instead of participating in federal assistance programs, such as receiving food stamps–another example of the ramifications of the public charge rule expansion under the Trump administration.
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), which allows a possible 300,000 new eligible applicants to apply for protection.
There have been at least 66 unaccompanied migrant children (ages 12-17) expelled without a court hearing or asylum interview after a federal judge had ordered the practice to stop.
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