![]() Yet another order blocks the deportation of Liberians living in the United States. The order also calls on Congress to enact legislation providing permanent status and a path to citizenship for those immigrants.Īnother executive order revokes the Trump administration’s plan to exclude noncitizens from the census count, and another overturns a Trump executive order that pushed aggressive efforts to find and deport unauthorized immigrants. Trump sought for years to end the program, known as DACA. ![]() With an executive order, Biden bolstered the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that protects from deportation immigrants brought to the United States as children, often called Dreamers. Barajas will be applying for DACA for the first time. Gabriela Barajas, 36, sits next to her son, Melvin Garcia, 13, as they watch the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at her Logan Square home in Chicago on Jan. delegation to the organization’s executive board and will jump into the role with a meeting this week. He is also starting a “100 days masking challenge” urging all Americans to wear masks and state and local officials to implement public measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.īiden is also reinstating ties with the World Health Organization after the Trump administration chose to withdraw the nation’s membership and funding last year. ![]() Though it is not a national mask mandate, which would most likely fall to a legal challenge, Biden is requiring social distancing and the wearing of masks on all federal property and by all federal employees. The order also restores the directorate for global health security and biodefense at the National Security Council, a group Trump had disbanded. (LM Otero/AP)īiden signed an executive order appointing Jeffrey Zients as the official COVID-19 response coordinator who will report to the president, in an effort to “aggressively” gear up the nation’s response to the pandemic. ![]() Howard Holland, 82, receives his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the Dallas County mass vaccination site at Fair Park on Jan. ![]()
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