READ: From Insurrection to Inauguration: Trump leaves Washington, Biden sworn in STUDENT DEBTīiden is asking the Education Department to extend a pause on federal student loan payments through at least Sept.
Other provisions lessen the time that many people have to wait outside the United States for green cards, provide development aid to Central America and reduce the 1.2-million-case backlog in immigration courts. Most would have to wait eight years for citizenship but people enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for young immigrants and with temporary protective status for fleeing strife-torn countries would only wait three years. LEGISLATION: Biden is also proposing legislation that would grant green cards and a path to citizenship to anyone in the United States before Jan.
President Donald Trump departs WashingtonĬENSUS: Biden is reversing a Trump plan to exclude people in the country illegally from being counted in the 2020 Census. READ: Trump pardons ex-campaign adviser Steve Bannon, rapper Lil Wayne, commutes sentence of Kodak Black Biden’s campaign site says deportations will focus on national security and public safety threats. The Department of Homeland Security will conduct a review of enforcement priorities. He is also halting construction to review contracts and how wall money might be redirected.ĭACA: Biden will order his Cabinet to work to preserve the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which has shielded hundreds of thousands of people who came to the country as young children from deportation since it was introduced in 2012.ĭEPORTATIONS: Biden is revoking one of Trump’s first executive orders, which declared that all of the roughly 11 million people in the country illegally are considered priorities for deportation. WATCH: Political Reporter Christopher Heath breaks down Joe Biden’s challenges upon taking officeīORDER WALL: Biden is immediately ending the national emergency that Trump declared on the border in February 2018 to divert billions of dollars from the Defense Department to wall construction. The new administration says it will improve the screening of visitors by strengthening information sharing with foreign governments alongside other measures. After a lengthy court fight, a watered-down version of the rule was upheld by the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision in 2018. Trump in January 2017 banned foreign nationals from seven mostly Muslim countries from entry into the U.S. Scenes from Biden inauguration (ABC News) IMMIGRATIONĮNDING BAN ON MUSLIM TRAVELERS: Biden is ending what is variously known as the “travel ban” or the “Muslim ban,” one of the first acts of the Trump administration.
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