{"id":25060,"date":"2021-02-03T17:29:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T17:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/02\/03\/immigration-advocates-welcome-new-tone-but-urge-biden-admin-for-more-concrete-change-2\/"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:29:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T17:29:59","slug":"immigration-advocates-welcome-new-tone-but-urge-biden-admin-for-more-concrete-change-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/03\/immigration-advocates-welcome-new-tone-but-urge-biden-admin-for-more-concrete-change-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Advocates Welcome New \u201cTone\u201d But Urge Biden Admin for More Concrete Change"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hundreds have been deported in the last week, even as President Biden signed several executive orders Tuesday to undo the Trump administration\u2019s hard-line anti-immigration policies. The orders include a push to reunify families torn apart under Trump\u2019s \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy and a review of the Trump policy known as \u201cRemain in Mexico\u201d that requires non-Mexican asylum seekers to wait in Mexico as their immigration cases wind through court, leaving tens of thousands waiting in dangerous conditions along the border. Reporter Aura Bogado says that despite the Biden administration\u2019s new \u201ctone,\u201d continued deportations of vulnerable people demonstrate \u201ca continuation of the same practices that happened under President Trump and previously under Obama.\u201d Erika Pinheiro, an immigration attorney and the policy and litigation director of Al Otro Lado, a binational nonprofit helping immigrants on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, says many migrants left waiting in Mexico are losing patience with assurances that the new administration will have a plan for them. \u201cIf we don\u2019t have an answer for these people, other groups will fill that information void, like cartels and like smugglers, and ultimately the lack of a plan is going to result in more migrant deaths,\u201d says Pinheiro.<\/p>\n

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