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By TCR Staff | March 14, 2022

Despite promising to overhaul the draconian immigration policies enacted by President Donald J. Trump, President Biden and his lawyers have fought to uphold a Trump-era public health rule allowing the United States to turn away migrants without providing them an opportunity to ask for asylum, sought to defend the Biden administration and former Trump administration officials against lawsuits from parents who were separated from their children at the border, and delay the processing of green cards for winners of a visa lottery, including those increasingly at risk in Ukraine, reports the New York Times.

Democrats in Congress say the administration is not only moving too slowly on promised reforms, but also is far too willing to use and defend Trump-era policies in the meantime. Senior White House officials have raised concerns that unwinding the Trump-era border restrictions would open the United States to an increase in illegal crossings and bolster attacks from Republicans accusing Biden of being too lenient. Biden has taken nearly 300 executive actions on immigration, according to the Migration Policy Institute, roughly 90 of which intended to roll back technical rules within Trump administration policies. The president has also rolled back sweeping bans on Muslim-majority countries, a rule allowing officials to deny green cards to immigrants in need of public assistance, and allowed minors to cross the border.

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