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The Biden Administration Continues Its Daunting Task of Reuniting Families Subjected to Trump-era Immigration Crimes
On his first day in office, President Biden sent Congress a bill creating for undocumented individuals a pathway to citizenship, signed a memorandum directing the Homeland Security secretary to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and an executive order repealing “the former guy,” Donald Trump’s, Muslim ban.
A month later, Biden ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to review Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), commonly known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy, and issued an executive order to create a task force for the purpose of reunifying families separated at the US-Mexico border under the Trump administration’s 2018 “zero tolerance” policy.
By mid-August last year, the Biden administration successfully reunited almost 400 children torn away from more than 5,000 families, on whom the Trump administration kept no records.
More than 600 children have been reunited to date.
