Biden’s immigration executive actions triple Trump’s, analysis finds
District of Columbia | April 27, 2021
President Biden has issued more than three times as many executive orders pertaining to immigration in his first 100 days than his Republican predecessor Donald Trump signed in during the same period, according to a new analysis by the Migration Policy Institute.
As of Tuesday, Biden had taken 94 executive actions related to immigration while Trump had taken fewer than 30 such actions at the same point in his presidency.
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MPI noted that Biden’s actions on immigration have reversed previous Trump administration policies while taking additional actions to make the immigration system “more welcome.”
Those actions have already yielded results, particularly at the U.S.-Mexico border.
“ICE arrests have decreased by more than 60 percent, from an average of 6,800 monthly arrests in the last three full months of the Trump administration to 2,500 in February, Biden’s first full month in office. For comparison, by Trump’s first full month in office, ICE arrests increased by 26 percent over the average of the last three full months of the Obama administration,” MPI noted…
(Excerpts from Fox News)