While accurate, the headlines do not always acknowledge both the hope and frustration immigration advocates feel with the new administration. To be sure, President Joe Biden has signed a flurry of executive orders that do have an immediate impact on certain aspects of immigration law. But immigrants say they experienced such draconian policies the past four years that they have a hard time getting excited about simply returning to what might amount to a pre-Trump status quo.
On Tuesday, for example, Biden signed a trio of immigration orders: One established a task force to reunify migrant families separated at the border under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy. Another
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