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US Immigration Policy Changes Expected Under Biden

Aline Barros

   WASHINGTON - The incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden
   could swiftly reverse an array of President Donald Trump's immigration
   policies, many of which remain among the most contentious initiatives
   of his administration.

   Biden could overturn many guidelines using the same mechanism Trump
   employed to implement them: executive orders. Others, however, will
   require more than a policy declaration, experts say.

   In the last four years, Trump authored [1]more than 400 regulatory
   actions through his executive power.
   Michele Waslin, program coordinator at the Institute for Immigration
   Research at George Mason University in Virginia, told VOA the list
   includes sweeping travel restrictions, changed immigration enforcement
   priorities, overhauled asylum rules, an emergency declaration for
   border wall construction and successively reduced caps on refugee
   admissions.

   "In theory, presidential proclamations and executive orders can be
   rescinded by the new president; however, in many cases, the change will
   not be immediate since people will need to be installed in the
   agencies, guidance and field manuals must be updated, and plans will
   need to be made to carry out the changes," she said.

   Waslin said undoing other policies is expected to be more complex.

   "Policies that were changed through regulations will likely require new
   regulations and a new public comment period," she explained.

   The first 100 days

   Within the first 100 days, Biden is expected to repeal Trump's
   executive order that barred most nationals from certain countries from
   visiting the United States. Initially, the restrictions targeted
   citizens of some majority Muslim nations, but they were expanded to
   include other countries Washington regards as security threats.

References

   1. https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/us-immigration-system-changes-trump-presidency

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