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Biden to Sign Executive Orders Reversing Trump Immigration Policies

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden is signing executive orders
   Tuesday to start to dismantle former President Donald Trump's
   restrictive immigration policies, including an attempt to reunite
   families that had been separated at the U.S.-Mexican border.

   In the first hours of his presidency two weeks ago, Biden acted to halt
   construction of Trump's $16 billion wall along the border and sent a
   far-reaching immigration bill to Congress, where lawmakers have long
   been stalemated between liberals looking to ease the path to U.S.
   citizenship and conservatives seeking to stem unauthorized immigration.

   Biden's immediate focus is on the 3,100-kilometer southern border with
   Mexico, where Trump tried to keep thousands of migrants from Mexico,
   Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala from entering the U.S.

   Trump led repair and expansion of a border wall and imposed tough
   detention and deportation policies for those who made it across the
   desolate border terrain and into the United States.

   One of the orders Biden is signing would establish a task force
   designed to reunite more than 600 migrant children with their parents
   after federal authorities had split them up at the border in 2017 and
   2018. Officials say first lady Jill Biden is expected to play an active
   role in the effort.

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