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Biden signs decrees on “The Dreamers”, the wall with Mexico, and the veto on immigration

Washington, Jan.20 (EFE). – US President Joe Biden signed decrees on Wednesday to protect the DACA program from deporting “dreamers”, halting construction of the wall with Mexico and revoking the immigration veto that bars entry to the United States for citizens of 11 countries. In his first Oval Office job, Biden signed 17 decrees and declarations aimed at repealing many of the measures taken by his predecessor, Donald Trump, many of them related to immigration. One of them is asking the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security to take “all necessary measures” to protect the DACA program, which was established in 2012 and which protects nearly 650,000 illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children, known as “from deportation.” The Dreamers. ” Trump ordered an end to the program in 2017, but the courts prevented him from doing so, although an active lawsuit on the issue continued to exist in a federal court in Texas, a state that along with eight other territories in the country have requested that the program be declared unconstitutional. Biden also called on Congress to act to protect “dreamers”, and his new immigration reform proposal calls for granting permanent residency to them and beneficiaries of the Temporary Protection Act (TPS). In a second decree, Biden ordered an end to the national emergency issued by his predecessor, Donald Trump, to divert money toward Building the wall on the border with Mexico. This would allow the new president to fulfill his promise to halt Trump’s major border project, although Biden does not plan to demolish part of the wall that the Republican politician has already built, which extends 727 kilometers (452 ​​miles) from The Wall Border District Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said this month that it has funds to complete another 300 miles of the wall and that it plans to award contracts to do so before Biden comes to power. This complicates the president-elect’s efforts to slow the project, and it could be He is only able to do this once the funds already allocated to him have been exhausted. A third decree rescinded the immigration veto that Trump imposed four years ago on travelers from 11 Muslim-majority countries, known as the “Islamic veto.” This veto has so far prevented citizens of 11 countries with large Muslim populations (Eritrea, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Burma, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, and Yemen) from entering the United States, and includes restrictions for some officials from Venezuela and North Korea. Biden has also instructed the State Department to resume visa applications for those countries, according to his team. In addition, Biden ordered a recount of illegal immigrants in the census that occurs every 10 years, and a review of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE, in English) mechanisms at the time to arrest illegal immigrants, which escalated during Trump’s tenure. (C) The EFE Agency