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Biden cancels Trump's ban on entry to 'green card' holders

Biden has pledged since taking office to reverse many of the immigration policies of his predecessor Trump.

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The US President, Joe Biden, has canceled a decision issued by his predecessor, Donald Trump, to prevent many of those applying for a green card from entering the United States, while today, the big plan to support the economy, which Biden wants, is put forward to a vote in the House of Representatives, where It has a great chance of getting the approval of the Democratic majority.

In detail, President Joe Biden canceled a series of executive orders and memoranda issued by Donald Trump, including those affecting immigration policies.

Trump had issued a ban preventing many green card applicants from entering the United States last year, saying that he was wanted to protect employment in the United States, amid high unemployment due to the Corona pandemic.

Biden rejected that justification in a post yesterday, canceling the visa ban, saying that it prevented families from meeting in the United States and harmed commercial and economic activities there.

"On the contrary, it harms the United States, including by preventing some family members of United States citizens and legal permanent residents from joining their families here," Biden said in a presidential announcement. "It also harms industries in the United States that use talent from the whole world".

Biden has pledged to reverse many of his predecessor's immigration policies.

And the president left another ban on the entry of most temporary foreign workers.

In October, a California federal judge obstructed Trump's ban on foreign workers, saying it had harmed hundreds of thousands of business owners in the United States who had challenged the decision in court.

As many as 120,000 preferential family visas were lost due to the pandemic-related freeze in the 2020 budget year, according to the American Immigrant Bar Association, as immigrants can bring family members only if they are US citizens applying for visas for their spouses or children under the age of 21.

It also banned entry to immigrants with work visas, unless they are deemed useful to the national interest such as health-care professionals.

Trump's actions closed the door to thousands of visa lottery winners, who were randomly selected from a group of nearly 14 million applicants for "green cards," or so-called "green cards," that would allow them to live permanently in the United States.

California immigration attorney Curtis Morrison, who has represented thousands of people banned from the freeze, said the banned visas add to the growing backlog of 437,000 family visas.

"I am happy with my clients who are now in a position to enter the United States now," he said, but this accumulation will take years if the administration does not take ambitious measures.

The orders Biden rescinded also include a 2017 measure signed by Trump directing the government to streamline regulations affecting the financial services industry, as part of an effort to roll back the impact of the Dodd-Frank Act, Bloomberg reported.

Biden also targeted some of the more controversial executive measures Trump took in his final months in office, which he argued were necessary to protect the US economy while it recovered from the pandemic.

On the other hand, the large plan to support the economy wanted by Joe Biden, valued at $ 1.9 trillion, will be put to the vote in the House of Representatives, where it has a great opportunity to obtain the approval of the Democratic majority, announced the leader of the Democratic majority in the House, Steny Heuer.

Nevertheless, negotiations continued in the Senate on some sticking points, including an increase in the hourly minimum wage to $ 15.

So the final text that Congress can pass in the coming days remains uncertain, as deep divisions continue between Republicans and Democrats.

In the face of the economic devastation caused by the "Covid-19" epidemic, time is running short, according to the heads of dozens of major American groups, such as "Goldman Sachs", "Apple" and "General Motors", who called on Congress to accelerate the adoption of the new support plan. this is.

For his part, the leader of the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives, Steny Hoyer, said in a press conference, the day before yesterday, that he would put the "American rescue plan" to a vote in a plenary session today.

The text has great chances of being passed, given the House's Democratic dominance.

In the Senate, Biden's party enjoys a very slim majority, with both Democrats and Republicans holding 50 seats, but Democrats can count on Vice President Kamala Harris' vote in the event of a tie.

But normally, they should get 60 votes to approve a text as important as this massive stimulus package, and to reduce the possibility of Republicans blocking the adoption of the text, Democrats passed a memorandum in early February allowing them to approve the plan by a simple majority.

On the other hand, US President Joe Biden's candidate for Director General of the CIA, William Burns, told Congress that the development of the personality of Chinese President Xi Jinping over the past six years represents a strong call to wake the United States. .

"I think this kind of overt ambition and assertion of self made clear the nature of the opponent we face today," said William Burns, during the approval session, adding, "We have to prepare for a long-term competition with China."

Biden: The visa ban prevented families from meeting in the United States, and harmed commercial and economic activities.

Biden's candidate for intelligence director: America must prepare for a long-term competition with China.

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