Biden Administration Day-One Executive Orders Rescinding Trump Travel Bans and Fortifying DACA
Published on January 23, 2021 On his first day in office, President Biden issued a series of Executive Orders signaling his administration’s shift toward new immigration policies. On January 20, 2021, President Biden signed the “Proclamation on Ending Discriminatory Bans on Entry to the United States,” rescinding two of the Trump Administration’s travel bans directed at predominately Muslim and African countries. Specifically, this order revokes the Trump Administration’s 2017 travel ban, which restricted the issuance of nonimmigrant and immigrant visas