Biden’s efforts to reverse Trump’s immigration legacy would be slowed by legal hurdles, political pressure to keep some measures, and a crowded agenda dominated by the coronavirus pandemic:
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Biden pledged to rescind Trump’s travel bans on “Day 1” but that’s now planned for some time within the first 100 days, according a campaign official. He still intends to submit an immigration reform bill to Congress on his first day.
Amy Pope, a former Obama homeland security adviser, is leading a Biden campaign volunteer working group on immigration. Pope defended the Obama admin’s expansion of family detention in a 2018 interview and her involvement has raised concerns with several familiar with the effort
UPDATE: Biden’s campaign said on Friday that Biden *would* rescind Trump’s travel ban on Day One of his presidency.
The campaign also said Biden would take immediate action to protect DACA recipients.
The campaign also said Biden would take immediate action to protect DACA recipients.
MORE DETAILS on Amy Pope concerns: some said the former Obama National Security Council official’s involvement in a campaign working group signaled Biden could treat immigration more as a national security issue than a civil rights issue.
Peter Boogaard, a former colleague of Pope’s in the Obama White House, praised her as “incredibly adept” and said she played a key role in shaping Obama policies countering human trafficking and addressing root causes of immigration in Central America.
Lorella Praeli, co-president of the Washington-based Community Change, which works to empower people of color, women and immigrants, said “it’s not enough” to return to Obama-era policies, “because so much of it wasn’t working.”
