The Biden Administration Is Battling in Court to Keep Some Trump-era Immigration Policies in Place3/18/2022
According to immigration activists and Democrats, the president's remarks at the podium and the government's actions in court are at odds. President Biden has threatened to expose President Donald J. Trump's immigration policy as a "moral and national humiliation." But that was not Mr. Biden's legal team's argument earlier this year in a federal courtroom. The case was heard in January by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, a three-judge panel of the United States Supreme Court. Trump appointee Judge Justin R. Walker was perplexed. Government lawyers were attempting to uphold a Trump-era public health rule that allows the US to deport migrants without giving them the option to seek asylum in Judge Walker's courtroom. He claims that the administration is moving too slowly on promised reforms and is far too willing to rely on Trump-era policies in the meantime. "The only way I know whether I'm reading a Biden or Trump administration brief is by looking at the signature block," said Lee Gelernt, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer. And those who won a visa lottery, including those who are increasingly at risk in Ukraine, were surprised to learn that federal lawyers are still delaying the processing of their green cards. When it comes to immigration, are Biden and Trump on the same page? Mr. Biden has taken steps to reverse the majority of his predecessor's immigration policy. Mr. Biden has worked to reverse much of his predecessor's immigration policy, including broad bans on Muslim-majority countries and a law that allows officials to deny green cards to immigrants in need of government assistance. He has issued nearly 300 executive acts on immigration, according to the Migration Policy Institute. No, according to Mr. Gelernt, who represents families who were separated at the border in 2018. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, children and teenagers are safe from the Trump administration's border policy. "Making the necessary reforms isn't going to happen tomorrow," White House spokeswoman Vedant Patel adds. Mr. Biden warned weeks before taking office that undoing Trump-era policies would take time, in part because doing so too soon might encourage migrants to cross the border. She was denied entry to the United States, however, due to the Trump administration's pandemic restrictions. When Mr. Biden was elected, she had high hopes because he had praised the visa lottery during his campaign and even proposed expanding it by 25,000 visas. Two judges have ordered the Biden administration to deal with the backlog of visas this year. Justice Department lawyers have filed an appeal against the court orders. They claim that the government still lacks the resources needed to process visa applications without delaying future lottery winners. The lawyers also claimed last month that the orders would jeopardize the president's ability to impose future travel restrictions on other visa applicants, such as Russian officials sanctioned by the US for invading Ukraine.
"We always have our suitcases ready and our clothing ready to go," Mr. Demchenko said from his home, before his wife convinced him to end the phone interview. While Mr. Biden established a task force last year to assist in the reunification of juveniles separated from their parents as a result of Mr. Trump's "zero tolerance" policy, the government abandoned settlement talks with some of the 5,500 children's families late last year. He told them that they needed to go to the bomb shelter. George Lynden Melmed was the head counsel for the government's legal immigration agency during President George W. Bush's administration. He claims that there was a schism between a presidential candidate's agenda and his legal team's approach while in office. "Writing talking points is simple; running an agency is far more difficult," he says. Lynden Melmed, general counsel for the government's legal immigration department during President George W. Bush's administration, said there had been a disconnect for years between a presidential candidate's program and his legal team's approach while in office. The administration, however, withdrew from the talks in December and has been attempting to persuade judges to dismiss cases filed by families against a variety of defendants, not just the government. During his presidential campaign, Mr. Biden made no mention of withdrawing the regulation, but he did promise to restore the asylum procedure, which many migrants subject to the public health order were denied. According to a federal appeals court, the administration can no longer use the regulation to deport migrant families to countries where they face persecution or torture. Vice President Kamala Harris went even further as a senator, accusing the Trump administration of using a limited public health power as a broad immigration tool. Judge Walker reminded Ms. Swingle that the Biden administration had previously argued that returning migrants to Mexico while they await asylum cases would not "align with the administration's values" due to the risk of violence and sexual assault on the Mexican side of the border from cartel members. Ms. Swingle, on the other hand, cited the public health crisis as a reason to maintain Mr. Trump's border restrictions. Comments are closed.
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