President Joseph Biden’s executive actions:
- Reject the previous interior-enforcement orders and instead call for a review to establish enforcement priorities (note that the U.S. President Biden ordered a deportation moratorium is currently being held by a federal judge).
- Revert to the old “public charge” rule.
- Inclusion of undocumented immigrants in census
- Reversing travel bans that affect particular Muslim and African countries;
- In a memorandum, to protect Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”)
- Proclamation stopping construction of the border wall; even successful appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court for cancellation of oral argument concerning the U.S. government’s petition to an appellate court to stop construction;
- In a memorandum, the deferred enforced exit (“DED”) was reinstituted for Liberians
- Stopping the Migrant Protection Protocols (“MPP”)’s remain-in-Mexico policy for asylum seekers who seek entry to the U.S. at its southern border. The Supreme Court also canceled oral argument concerning the U.S. government’s appeal from an appellate court’s decision to end such a policy.
- Rebuilding the U.S. Refugee-Resettlement Program;
- Reuniting family members who were separated at the border.
- Proposed or finalized regulations not yet in effect should be frozen. This includes the regulation that would replace H-1B lottery with a system where only the most highly paid H-1B beneficiaries would qualify (was supposed be in effect March 9th), and the regulation that required H-1B beneficiaries be paid more than U.S workers (was supposed be in effect March 15th).
There’s much that’s already been done, but there’s still more that can be done, even if the U.S. Congress doesn’t act. The Citizenship Act of 2021 is never going to see the light of day at the U.S. Congress.
Summarized from an article by Law Firm of Anish Vashita.
