Biden to issue long-promised immigration orders next week

Published January 28, 2021 9:58pm ET



The White House signaled that President Biden will issue a slate of immigration-focused executive orders next week but might not include a plan to reunite migrant families — potentially leaving one major campaign promise unmet.

While running for president, Biden vowed to establish a task force to reunite migrant families “on his first day as president,” among other immigration-focused measures. The far-left faction of his party on Capitol Hill has called for dramatic action by the new president to undo many of former President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration edicts.

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