The president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, plans to issue a series of executive orders as soon as he assumes power this Wednesday, the details of which are beginning to be known.
Biden will issue decrees to reverse immigration bans and return to the Paris Agreement on climate change on his first day in the White House, report media in the United States.
The president-elect is also expected to aim for the reunification of separated families on the US-Mexico border. and will order measures on the use of masks against covid – 19.
The president will be sworn into office this Wednesday under strict security measures .
All the 50 states of the Union are in a state of maximum alert to face the possible violence that may occur around the ceremony of Investiture.
Thousands of National Guard soldiers traveled to protect Washington DC.
“Battery” of executive orders
Within hours of entering the White House, Biden plans to sign a battery of executive orders designed to illustrate a clear break with the government of his predecessor, according to a memorandum seen by the press
Executive orders are only part of a ambitious plan of his first 10 days in office, according to the memorandum.
It is expected that the President-elect also send a new immigration bill to Congress, as well as his intention to obtain approval of his stimulus plan of $ 1.9 trillion dollars to assist the economic recovery of the country after the coronavirus.
Biden also stated that his government will aim to supply 100 millions of covid vaccines – 19 in its first 100 days in the presidency, after describing the current vaccine delivery strategy as a “deplorable failure.”
“President-elect Biden will take action – not only reversing the worst damage of the Trump administration – but also beginning to move our country forward, “wrote the incoming chief of staff, Ron Klain, in the memorandum. o.
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Some of Biden’s early executive orders
- Reincorporation of the US to the Paris Agreement on climate change, a global pact to reduce carbon emissions
- Revocation of the controversial veto on the entry of travelers from countries with a Muslim majority
- Reunification of undocumented migrant families
- Order for the mandatory use of masks in federal facilities and on interstate travel
- Extension of a national restriction on evictions and foreclosures due to the pandemic
Return to the Paris climate agreement
In June of 2017, President Donald Trump announced that the United States was withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on climate change, a global pact signed in 2015 whose objective is to ensure that the increase in temperatures is maintained “Well below” 2ºC compared to the pre-industrial era.
Formally, the US exit was completed on November 4, 2020, just after the recent presidential elections.
That same day, Biden promised that the country would resume that commitment.
“Today, the Trump administration officially abandoned the Paris Agreement on the weather. And in exactly 77 days, the Biden government will rejoin him, “the president-elect wrote in a Twitter message.
According to the memorandum signed by Ron Klain, the return to this climate pact is one of the decisions that the new president intends to approve on his first day in the Oval Office .
End of the migratory veto to Muslim majority countries
One of the first decisions of Donald Trump after arriving at the White House was to apply a migratory veto to people from several countries with a majority population Muslim.
The controversial measure was challenged before the courts for being considered discriminatory, so it The government chose to reformulate it twice until it finally got the approval of the Supreme Court in June of 2018.
In its most recent version it affects the citizens of Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Somalia.
Biden is expected to sign an executive order to reverse this measure this Wednesday.
Reunification of migrant families
One of the most extreme measures applied by the Trump administration in immigration matters was the separation of families of undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country, accommodating minor children in centers other than those where their parents were.
The measure was part of a policy of “zero tolerance” applied on the border with Mexico and contemplated placing minors in the custody of the US government , while the parents were placed before the courts or were deported.
This policy was officially applied between April and June of 2018, although there was previously a pilot program at the El Paso crossing and there are indications that it continued to be implemented some time after it had been suspended.
In October 2020 a scandal broke out when, after a judge ordered to reunite the children with their families, it was learned that the authorities were unable to locate the parents of more than 500 of these minors due, in part, to the fact that some of them had been deported.
In November of 2020, lawyers who work to achieve this reunification pointed out that the number of minors whose parents could not locate was higher to the one indicated initially because it reached the 666 cases, according to NBC.
President-elect Biden has promised to create a workforce dedicated to solving this situation and is expected to this 20 January sign an executive order instructing federal agencies to search good mechanisms to make this reunification possible.
Mandatory use of masks in federal government facilities
One of the elements that has hindered The fight against the coronavirus in the United States has to do with the disparity of regulations to control the pandemic issued by the different local, state or federal authorities.
This disparity is found even in the application of the most basic rules that, according to scientists, would help to stop the spread of the virus, as is the case with the use of face masks.
The Biden government plans to issue an executive order to make the use of masks mandatory in federal facilities, as well as in transfers that cross interstate borders .
This decision is part of a much broader package of measures that the new government plans to implement to try to control the pandemic.
What challenges does Biden face?
The new president will take command of a country in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic.
Daily deaths from covid – 19 are counted in the thousands and have almost reached a total of 400. 10.
In addition to a virus circulating rampant, the country is unstable due to recent political violence.
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The theme for Biden’s inauguration will be “USA. united, ”with the president focusing on cleaning up political divisions. Vice President Mike Pence is expected to attend the ceremony, although Trump said he would not be present.
Biden will be sworn in exactly two weeks after the violent assault on the National Capitol on January 6, intended to prevent his electoral victory.
Even compared to the security standards for an inauguration, the military and police presence in Washington DC for the Wednesday ceremony is extraordinary.
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