Joe Biden wants to reunite migrant families separated by Trump administration
US President Joe Biden signed three decrees to “restore the reputation of hosting” the United States on February 2, 2021. MANDEL NGAN AFP / File
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Joe Biden continues to unravel the policies of his predecessor.
This Tuesday, February 2, he signed three presidential decrees on immigration.
It is a question, declared the American president, of restoring the reputation of reception of the United States.
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With our correspondent in Washington
,
Anne Corpet
"
I am not making a new law, I am eliminating bad policies,
" says Joe Biden, masked, from the Oval Office.
The president wants in particular to take care of the fate
of children separated from their families
on their arrival in the United States.
For this, the first decree provides for the establishment of a working group responsible for finding the parents of hundreds of children whose families have not yet been located.
"
We will work to erase the moral and national shame of the previous administration which literally tore the children from the arms of their families, their fathers and their mothers at the border, without having any plan, none so that these children who are still in detention can reunite with their families.
"
The second decree reinstates legal immigration channels suppressed by the Trump administration, and the third provides for facilitating the naturalization of migrants who have been on American soil for many years.
Joe Biden is breaking records with the number of executive orders he has signed since taking office.
But for his legacy to be lasting, he will have to pass laws.
A text on immigration has already been sent to Congress.
But elected officials have not begun to consider it, and it will take the vote of Republican senators for it to pass.
This major reform will be led by its
Minister of Internal Security, Alejandro Mayorkas
, whose appointment was confirmed on Tuesday in the Senate.
He is the first American of Hispanic origin to hold this position.
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