In his presidential proclamation, Biden is calling on Congress to adopt legislation that gives DACA recipients permanent legal status and a path to citizenship. But DACA is still facing legal challenges. Trump ordered an end to DACA in 2017, triggering a legal challenge that ended in June when the Supreme Court ruled that it should be kept in place because the Trump administration failed to follow federal rule-making guidelines in undoing it. 22 on the legality of Trump’s diverting Defense Department funds for counter-narcotics efforts and military construction projects to wall construction.ĭACA: Biden will order his Cabinet to work to preserve the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which has shielded hundreds of thousands of people who came to the country as young children from deportation since it was introduced in 2012. The Supreme Court has scheduled arguments Feb. It is unclear how many miles are under contract and what penalties the government would have to pay for canceling them. Customs and Border Protection says Americans have committed $15 billion for more than 700 miles (1,120 kilometers). He also is halting construction to review contracts and how wall money might be redirected.ĭespite Trump’s repeated promises that Mexico would pay for the wall, U.S. The new administration says it will improve the screening of visitors by strengthening information sharing with foreign governments and other measures.īORDER WALL: Biden is immediately ending the national emergency that Trump declared on the border in February 2018 to divert billions of dollars from the Defense Department to wall construction. After a lengthy court fight, a watered-down version of the rule was upheld by the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision in 2018. Trump in January 2017 banned foreign nationals from seven mostly Muslim countries from entry into the country. Biden also is setting in motion an evaluation of another Trump move that cut boundaries and protections for some national monuments.Īgencies will be directed to consider impact of climate change on disadvantaged communities and on future generations from any regulatory action that affected fossil fuel emissions, a new requirement.ĮNDING BAN ON MUSLIM TRAVELERS: Biden is ending what is variously known as the “travel ban” or the “Muslim ban,” one of the first acts of the Trump administration. REVIEWING TRUMP ROLLBACKS: Biden’s Day One plans also include a temporary moratorium on new Trump administration oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, moving to revoke a presidential permit for the Keystone XL oil and gas pipeline and reviewing a Trump administration freeze on vehicle mileage and emissions standards. Trump, a supporter of oil, gas and coal, had made a first priority of pulling out of global efforts to cut climate-damaging fossil fuel emissions. PARIS CLIMATE ACCORD: Biden will sign an executive orders to rejoin the Paris climate accord, fulfilling a campaign pledge to get back into the global climate pact on Day One. – Hollywood on the Potomac: A-list turns out for Biden-Harris.– Biden's inauguration goes off with no security issues.– Trump bids farewell to Washington, hints of comeback.– An inauguration unlike any other amid a pandemic, unrest.
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