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Biden orders to reunify families at U.S.-Mexico border, enhance legal immigration
By United Press International - February 2, 2021
Feb. 2 (UPI) President Joe Biden will take action on Tuesday to reform the federal governments immigration policy, which the White House says is designed to keep families together, streamline legal migration and study unlawful border crossings.
Biden has already signed multiple executive orders related to immigration since he took office on Jan. 20, but Tuesdays actions represent the most concerted federal effort yet to reunite migrant families who were controversially separated under former President Donald Trumps zero tolerance policy.
The presidential actions will include a task force to reunify families, the White House said in a statement Tuesday. It aims to find parents and children separated by the Trump administration and will ultimately recommend steps to prevent such tragedies from occurring again.
A Justice Department filing in December said at the time that more than 600 parents of migrant children, whod been separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, were still missing.
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https://gephardtdaily.com/national-international/biden-orders-to-reunify-families-at-u-s-mexico-border-enhance-legal-immigration/
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