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Biden reverses Trump's executive order that criminalized the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.

Biden signed 17 executive orders on his first day in the White House. Photo: Doug Mills / POOL / EFE One of the 17 Executive Orders that President Joe Biden signed on his first day in the White House reverses a decree of former President Donald Trump that criminalized the presence of undocumented persons, prohibited sanctuary jurisdictions and established new deportation priorities . “The Executive Order 13768 of 25 January 2017 (Improving Public Safety in the Interior of the United States ) ”, Ordered the new US president this Wednesday .. Through this decree, Biden orders the“ Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management and the heads o...
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The personal tragedies in Joe Biden's life that are his letter to unite the country

This article was published in August or 2020 and updated with the arrival of Joe Biden to the presidency of the United States . “Promise me you'll be okay, dad.” That's what Beau Biden asked his father, Joe, shortly before he died. The eldest son of the now president of the United States was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer in 2013. He died two years later, in June of 2015, a few days before Donald Trump launched his campaign to get the Republican Party nomination for the elections of 2017 that catapulted him to the White House. Joe Biden, who was then vice president of the United States under Barack Obama, also had then considered fighting for the presidency of his country , but Beau's death made him discard that option, even against the will that his s...
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Biden signs executive order preventing US exit from WHO

President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. Photo: JIM WATSON / AFP / Getty Images In his first act in the Oval Office, Biden signed 17 decrees and proclamations aimed at undoing many of the measures taken by his predecessor, Donald Trump, several related to immigration. Among them, Joe Biden signed this Wednesday an executive order to prevent the exit from his country from the World Health Organization (WHO), a process initiated by his predecessor, Donald Trump, and which was scheduled to take effect in July 2021. One of Biden's first acts as president was stop the process that Trump officially started in July last year to remove the United States from the WHO, an organization that he also stopped helping economically, which was a great I...
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Biden returns the United States to the Paris Agreement on climate change

President Joe Biden signed documents at the White House. Photo: JIM LO SCALZO / POOL / EFE President Joe Biden signed an executive order to rejoin the United States into the Paris Agreement to protect the climate on Wednesday, its first major action to tackle global warming, as it brought in the largest team of experts in climate change to the White House. Biden seeks to return Washington to leadership in the fight against climate change and this action is part of one of his main electoral promises. The executive order signed by Biden makes the US again a signatory to the Paris Agreement, from which he officially withdrew on November 4 of last year, just one day after the elections, and after former President Donald Trump announced the exit of this agreement in which mo...
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Biden's inauguration: “We must end this uncivil war” and other phrases from the first speech of the new president of the United States

Unity, heal wounds and look to the future with hope. Joe Biden's first speech as president of the United States followed the line of what was his central campaign message and what has repeated on different occasions since his electoral victory on November 3. Without forgetting the challenges that are presented, among which he highlighted the serious health and economic crisis due to the coronavirus and the polarizing environment politics that the country is experiencing, Biden offered words of optimism and underlined the strength of the democratic system. At BBC Mundo we present some of the fundamental ideas. 1. "It's the day of democracy" Speaking in front of the same Capitol that was assaulted by a mob of violent followers of former President Donald Trump, Biden began his spee...
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Biden's inauguration: 5 things you might not know about the new president of the United States

Joe Biden is the 46 th President of the United States. The Democrat, from 78 years, he assumed power this Wednesday in an unusual ceremony due to the high security measures that were adopted to prevent possible attacks and riots. Biden, who was US vice president during the presidency of Barack Obama , returns to the White House with the Urgent task of addressing the health and economic crisis caused by the coronavirus. His arrival to the presidency also occurs at a time of great polarization and confrontation that culminated on January 6 in the seizure of the Capitol by violent supporters of the outgoing president, Donald Trump . The You we have some outstanding details of his personal and professional life sional. 1. A career politician As Trump insisted on reminding ...