Biden will remove the uncertainty for Dreamers by reinstating the DACA program, and he will explore all legal options to protect their families from inhumane separation.
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Derived from a tracked promise: “Biden will remove the uncertainty for Dreamers by reinstating the DACA program, and he will explore all legal options to protect their famil…”
Sources
- American Presidency Project — Biden Campaign Press Releasehttps://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/biden-campaign-press-release-the-biden-agenda-for-the-latino-community ↗
“Biden will remove the uncertainty for Dreamers by reinstating the DACA program, and he will explore all legal options to protect their families from inhumane separation.”
“The panel paused its ruling as it relates to current DACA beneficiaries, pending another ruling by the 5th Circuit or the Supreme Court, allowing renewals to continue.”
- Federal Register (Department of Homeland Security)https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/08/30/2022-18401/deferred-action-for-childhood-arrivals ↗
“proposed to establish regulations to preserve and fortify the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy to defer removal of certain noncitizens who years earlier came to the United States as children”
- Commission on Presidential Debateshttps://www.debates.org/voter-education/debate-transcripts/october-22-2020-debate-transcript/ ↗
“Parents were ripped — their kids were ripped from their arms and separated... It's criminal. It's criminal. 500 plus kids came with parents. They separated them at the border to make it a disincentive to come to begin with.”
“Biden signs immigration executive orders to address 'moral failing' of Trump's policies”
- The White House (archived)https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/02/02/executive-order-the-establishment-of-interagency-task-force-on-the-reunification-of-families/ ↗
“children entering the United States are not separated from their families, except in the most extreme circumstances”
“As a presidential candidate, Joe Biden promised in 2020 not to build 'another foot of wall' on the U.S.-Mexico border.”
- White House (Biden administration archives)https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-termination-of-emergency-with-respect-to-southern-border-of-united-states-and-redirection-of-funds-diverted-to-border-wall-construction/ ↗
“the authorities invoked in that proclamation will no longer be used to construct a wall”
- Federal Register (Department of Homeland Security)https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2023/10/05/2023-22176.txt ↗
“In order to ensure the expeditious construction of the barriers and roads in the project areas, I have determined that it is necessary that I exercise the authority that is vested in me by section 102(c) of IIRIRA.”
- White House (Biden administration archives)https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/preserving-and-fortifying-deferred-action-for-childhood-arrivals-daca/ ↗
“The Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Attorney General, shall take all actions he deems appropriate, consistent with applicable law, to preserve and fortify DACA.”
- White House (Biden administration archives)https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/01/20/fact-sheet-president-biden-sends-immigration-bill-to-congress-as-part-of-his-commitment-to-modernize-our-immigration-system/ ↗
“President Biden is sending a bill to Congress on day one to restore humanity and American values to our immigration system.”
“U.S. border officials on Monday suspended Trump-era rules that required certain migrants to wait for their asylum hearings in Mexico.”
- Federal Register (DHS and DOJ)https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/05/16/2023-10146/circumvention-of-lawful-pathways ↗
“a rebuttable presumption of asylum ineligibility for certain noncitizens who neither avail themselves of a lawful, safe, and orderly pathway to the United States nor seek asylum or other protection in a country through which they travel”
- CBS Newshttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-asylum-justice-department-trump-gang-domestic-violence/ ↗
“Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday reversed legal opinions issued under the Trump administration that severely restricted asylum claims based on domestic and gang violence, as well as persecution stemming from family ties.”
- Department of Homeland Securityhttps://www.dhs.gov/archive/news/2021/10/29/dhs-issues-new-memo-terminate-mpp ↗
“MPP had endemic flaws, imposed unjustifiable human costs, pulled resources and personnel away from other priority efforts”
- Houston Public Media (AP)https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/immigration/2021/11/01/412129/biden-administration-terminates-remain-in-mexico-policy-again/ ↗
“Biden administration terminates 'Remain in Mexico' policy again”
- Episcopal News Servicehttps://episcopalnewsservice.org/2020/11/13/biden-pledges-to-raise-refugee-ceiling-to-125000-in-address-to-jesuit-group/ ↗
“The Biden-Harris administration will restore America's historic role in protecting the vulnerable and defending the rights of refugees everywhere and raising our annual refugee admission target to 125,000.”
- Federal Register (Presidential Determination No. 2022-02)https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2021/10/18/2021-22760.txt ↗
“The admission of up to 125,000 refugees to the United States during Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.”
- Federal Register (Presidential Determination, FY 2025)https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2024/10/18/2024-24321.txt ↗
“The admission of up to 125,000 refugees to the United States during Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.”
- Federal Register (HHS, Administration for Children and Families)https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/04/30/2024-08329/unaccompanied-children-program-foundational-rule ↗
“This final rule adopts and replaces regulations relating to key aspects of the placement, care, and services provided to unaccompanied children referred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)”
“ICE also announced the Texas detention centers in Dilley and Karnes City would transition into short-term processing facilities designed to hold migrant families for less than three days.”
“The deployment of mass worksite operations...was not focused on the most pernicious aspect of our country's unauthorized employment challenge: exploitative employers”
- Human Rights Watch news reporthttps://www.hrw.org/news/2021/02/10/us-terminates-shameful-asylum-shirking-pacts ↗
“the United States would immediately suspend asylum cooperative agreements the administration of former President Donald Trump had wrangled from the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras”
- National Immigration Forumhttps://forumtogether.org/article/reviving-the-287g-agreements-under-the-new-administration-implementation-concerns-and-implications/ ↗
“As of December 2024...ICE had 287(g) Jail Enforcement Model agreements with 60 law enforcement agencies in 16 states and Warrant Service Officer agreements with 75 law enforcement agencies in 11 states”