WASHINGTON – In the last month alone, President Joe Biden’s administration ended a policy forcing asylum-seekers to remain out of the country, terminated the contracts of two controversial ICE facilities and given long-sought protected status to Haitian immigrants.
Immigration advocates hope it’s only the beginning of an aggressive effort to tackle an issue that has proven to be among the most tumultuous for Biden during his first few months in office.
Biden and his initially made immigration a top priority, but quickly received an avalanche of negative attention from liberals and conservatives alike as they struggled to respond to a surge of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
