U.S : Biden To Undo Some Of Trump’s Immigration Drives

Joe Biden

 Joe Biden pledged during his campaign to practically  reverse some of the provisional immigration deeds initiated during Donald Trump’s four years in office. While some actions can be undone with the stroke of a pen, others will take more time. 

The Biden administration plans to restore protection for people brought to the U.S. illegally as minors and stop using  the United States Department of Defense funds to build a border wall.

The incoming administration also intends to overturn Trump's travel and immigration restrictions on 13 mostly African or predominantly Muslim countries.

Also, a new guidance would be designed to stop "collateral arrests," which are apprehensions of immigrants who are not the target of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations but are nevertheless taken into custody because they are in the country without legal status.

At the southern border, Mr. Biden has pledged to discontinue the Trump administration's policy of requiring non-Mexican migrants to wait in Mexico for the duration of their U.S asylum cases. 

Mr. Biden's team is also planning to begin the process of terminating the "public charge" rules the Trump administration implemented to deny green cards and immigrant visas to applicants who U.S. officials determine rely — or could rely in the future — on government benefits like Medicaid, food stamps and Section 8 housing vouchers. 

Biden has said “immigration is central to who we are as a nation,” noting that most Americans can trace their ancestry to immigrants.