{"id":66249,"date":"2021-02-03T09:59:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T09:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=66249"},"modified":"2021-02-03T09:59:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T09:59:28","slug":"biden-signs-orders-on-migrant-family-separations-and-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=66249","title":{"rendered":"Biden signs orders on migrant family separations and asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"News Desk: US President Joe Biden has signed three executive actions seeking to reunite migrant families split up by a Trump-era policy and ordering a review of his predecessor's wider immigration agenda.<\/p>\n

In an attempt to deter illegal immigration, President Donald Trump's administration separated undocumented adults from children as they crossed the US-Mexico border.<\/p>\n

Biden's orders will set up a task force to try to reunite the estimated 600-700 children who are still apart from their families.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration split up at least 5,500 children from adults along the border between 2017-18.<\/p>\n

The administration of US President Barack Obama – whom Biden served as vice-president – also separated undocumented children from adults at the border, though much more rarely, say activists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News Desk: US President Joe Biden has signed three executive actions seeking to reunite migrant families split up by a Trump-era policy and ordering a review of his predecessor’s wider immigration agenda. In an attempt to deter illegal immigration, President Donald Trump’s administration separated undocumented adults from children as they crossed the US-Mexico border. Biden’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":66250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n