Biden signs orders on migrant family separations
US President Joe Biden has signed three executive activities wanting to reunite migrant families split up by a Trump-era insurance policy and ordering an assessment of his predecessor's wider immigration agenda.
In an attempt to deter against the law immigration, President Donald Trump's administration separated undocumented adults from children as they crossed the US-Mexico border.
Mr Biden's orders will create a job force to attempt to reunite the estimated 600-700 children who remain apart from their own families.
The Trump administration split at least 5,500 children from adults along the border between 2017-18.
The administration of US President Barack Obama - whom Mr Biden served as vice-president - also separated undocumented children from adults at the border, though a lot more rarely, say activists.
One of Mr Biden's orders might setup an inter-agency process force - led by the newly confirmed Secretary of Homeland Protection Alejandro Mayorkas - to oversee family reunifications
Mr Biden's second and third orders signed on Tuesday purchase an assessment of Mr Trump's immigration policies that curtailed asylum, slowed legal immigration into the US, and cancelled financing to foreign countries.
Speaking at the White House, Mr Biden said: "We will function to undo the moral and national shame of the prior administration that literally not figuratively ripped kids right from the arms of their families, their parents, for the border and with no method, none whatsoever, to reunify the kids who remain in custody and their father and mother."
Mr Biden in addition has proposed legislation to grant legal status and a path to citizenship to all or any of the estimated 11 million undocumented persons in the US.
But analysts state the new president has up to now avoided reversing Mr Trump's hardline policies in order to avoid a good surge in illegal immigration in the southern border.
At Tuesday's White House briefing, press secretary Jen Psaki said the administration was focused on creating a "moral" and "humane" immigration system. But until that happened, she added, right now was "not enough time to arrive to america".
