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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:

reuters.com/article/us-usa…
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.
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.”
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