Saturday, March 13, 2021

Cleaning up Trump's mess

The Biden administration said Friday it will end a Trump-era policy that let U.S. border agents collect information about the immigration status of people who came forward to care for unaccompanied migrant children so it could potentially deport them.

The policy, which began in 2018, allowed the Department of Homeland Security to identify and deport those would-be caregivers who were in the country illegally. It meant that immigrant parents who came to the U.S. and then later sent for their children to cross the border faced possible deportation when they tried to pick up their children from Health and Human Services custody.

While the policy had been largely disabled through subsequent directives, Biden administration officials told reporters the message of officially rescinding the policy "will have a real impact in terms of people trusting us and coming forward."

  NBC
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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