Biden struck down a Trump order requiring immigrants to prove they could pay for their health care

Biden said his administration wants to ensure access to affordable healthcare and that goal can be achieved without denying entry to the country to low-income immigrants

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President Joe Biden issued executive orders on Friday that reversed several executive actions taken by the former president Donald Trump , including a proclamation requiring visa applicants to have health insurance or the means to pay for health care, an action related to online censorship and an order to build. “The garden of American heroes.”

Trump’s proclamation dated 2019 and related to the requirement of proof of the ability to acquire health coverage for visa applicants, never entered into force and was faced with immediate legal challenges from advocates of the rights of immigrants that argued that it would prevent thousands of people from legally entering the United States.

Trump’s measure was signed on the grounds that legal immigrants from fewer resources would become a public charge for hospitals and taxpayers.

In your revocation of that policy that prevented Although low-income people could apply to enter the United States , Biden affirmed that his administration “is committed to expanding access to quality and affordable health care” and that its objective can be achieved “without impeding the entry of non-citizens who seek to immigrate legally to this country but who lack significant financial means or have not purchased health insurance coverage from a restrictive list of eligible plans. ”

The repeal of this measure was not the only one signed by Biden on Friday to nullify measures that Trump unilaterally signed without support from Congress.

Biden also reversed a Trump action in 2020 called “Prevention Censorship Online ”, which Trump issued last summer in the days after Twitter will rate two of his tweets as “potentially misleading.”

President Biden also n canceled the order Trump signed amid protests against police brutality that erupted across the country last year. The order ordered the attorney general to “prioritize within the Department of Justice the investigation and prosecution” of those who damage government-owned monuments, citing federal law that “authorizes a penalty of up to 10 years in prison for intentional damage to federal property.

And also canceled the order of Create Trump’s Proposed Garden of American Heroes , another order issued amid protests last year that would have created a garden of statues featuring notable American figures, was also rejected by Biden on Friday.

With information from CNN and NBC