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President Joe Biden would be planning to rescind limits on immigration that his predecessor, Donald Trump, imposed during the pandemic on the grounds that they were necessary to protect American workers during the economic recession, according to a senior White House official.
The current president would sign an executive order to annul the proclamation suspending certain work and immigrant visas , as Esther Olavarria told US mayors and published CBS News.
Olavarria is deputy director of the White House Council on Home Affairs and one of the president’s top immigration advisers.
According to her, the next order, “would rescind Trump’s proclamations that prevented the admission of immigrants and non-immigrants who were considered a financial burden on our health care system or who presented a risk to him United States labor markets. ”
“ These were policies that ignored the decades, and indeed centuries, of contributions that immigrants have made to our economy, to our society, to our culture “, said Olavarria at the conference with mayors. “Then we would rescind those policies and return to a country that welcomes immigrants and recognizes their contributions.”
It is not clear when Biden will sign the proclamation. , but his plans to issue several immigration actions this Friday have been delayed.
