If Joe Biden wins the presidency in November, he is expected to use executive powers to reverse President Trump’s changes related to immigration and refugee policy “and even end some immigration enforcement measures that have been in place for decades,” reports Michelle Hackman in a recent Wall Street Journal article.
“Many of Mr. Biden’s policy plans would require legislation to enact—but immigration is an issue where the former vice president would have the ability to enact much of Democrats’ desired agenda through regulatory changes and other executive actions,” Hackman notes in the story.
Biden has “also said he would pursue a bill providing a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants in the country who lack permanent legal status, a task made easier if Democrats take back control of the Senate.”
Also, Biden would restore the annual cap on refugees to 125,000 people “from a record-low 18,000, and end a program that sends asylum seekers back across the border to Mexico to await their immigration hearings.”
The Immigration and Refugee News Digest 