Spanish Nets Silent on Biden Deportations

MRC Latino | February 2, 2021
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NICOLE SUÁREZ: Immigration policy occupies an important part of Joe Biden's agenda. The president will sign three executive orders addressing various aspects related to immigration. Cristina Londoño spoke to senior White House officials and has first-hand details of what those executive orders say. Cristina, good morning. Is there a group that will be jumping for happiness today?

CRISTINA LONDOÑO: No, Nicole. Unfortunately those three executive orders, as we were told in a call, are nothing more than a change of spirit on the migration issue of the Biden administration. They're going to study, they're going to check, they're going to analyze, and then the changes will come. For example, there is an executive order on family reunification, they will create a team to bring together families separated at the border. But the question, for example, of whether they are going to bring in the parents who were deported to meet the children here, told us that would be on a case-by-case basis. For example, another executive order that seeks to restore immigration processes here in the United States, for example, would try to speed up the process of people becoming citizens, as they also say they will study what changes the Trump administration made to bring it back to normal. That's the executive order that has to do with the public burden, they're going to remove that rule from the Trump administration because it didn't let immigrants become citizens if there are considered a public burden, but they're still studying the process.

SUÁREZ: Cristina, but the other executive order is the one that will cause the most disappointment today. Tell us about it.

LONDOÑO: Nicole, it's the executive order that changes asylum processes at the border, but it doesn't give direct relief to the thousands of people waiting in camps. Some have been waiting two years. We had already spoken to these people last week when the executive orders were delayed. They were very depressed because they thought immediate relief was coming. Again, they're going to study the situation and they said there's not going to be an immediate change for those people who are going to have to keep waiting while they figure out how best to fix their situation

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