US President Joe Biden said he signed a set of executive decisions aimed at fixing what he called the wrong policies of the previous administration.
Biden added that these executive decisions related to immigration and lifting the ban on entry of citizens of Muslim countries to the United States, stressing that he does not issue new laws, but rather fixes the "bad policies" of the previous administration, as he put it.
Al-Jazeera correspondent in Washington, Ahmed Hazeem, said that Biden had signed 3 decisions, one of which was related to forming a committee to reunite families separated by Trump administration decisions, and to return about a thousand children to their parents after a long period of separation from them.
He added that the second executive decision relates to reviewing decisions of the previous administration that amended the laws and conditions for political asylum.
While the third executive decision was concerned with reviewing all procedural laws related to the issuance of residencies and visas.
Trump Legacy Review
Biden had signed a series of executive orders that would nullify decisions made by his predecessor, Donald Trump, immediately after he was sworn in and arrived at the White House on January 20, including a decree to lift travel restrictions imposed by the Trump administration on citizens. Some Muslim-majority countries.
The ban, issued by Trump in January 2017, prevents citizens of 7 countries with a majority of Muslims from entering the United States, which are Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
The number of countries subsequently decreased, as it was finally restricted to the citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, in addition to North Korea and Venezuela, and then the Trump administration added the citizens of 6 other Asian and African countries to its list of restricted countries, including Sudan, under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
Facilitate naturalization
And earlier on Tuesday, US officials said that Biden would issue instructions to his administration to facilitate the naturalization of 9 million immigrants eligible for US citizenship, in continuation of the Biden administration’s drive to break with Trump's policy.
The French Press Agency quoted an American official as saying that "President Trump focused so much on building a wall in front of immigrants, to the extent that he did nothing to address the roots of the issue, which are the reasons that drive people to come to the southern borders of the United States." It was "limited, unhelpful, and immature."
Among the issues that Biden's executive orders will address is the establishment of a working group to deal with the file of reuniting immigrants' families, which were dispersed as a result of the hard-line policies implemented by the Trump administration in 2018, and among the results of which were allowing law enforcement authorities to arrest and deport every adult immigrant who entered the US in an unimpeded manner. While his children are being held in federal detention centers.