Biden to create task force to reunite families separated at the border, White House says – By Ben Gittleson and Quinn Owen (ABC News) / Feb 2 2021
He planned to roll back many of his predecessor’s restrictive policies.
President Joe Biden will sign three executive orders on Tuesday aimed at reforming the U.S. immigration system and rolling back his predecessor’s policies, including creating a task force aimed at reuniting children who American authorities separated from their families on the border, according to the White House.
Chaired by the homeland security secretary, the task force would work to identify all families broken apart under the various forms of the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance policy,” which separated children from relatives at the U.S. border, even before it became an official policy, a senior Biden administration official said.
The task force, which would be vice-chaired by the secretaries of state and health and human services, would manage family reunifications on a case-by-case basis, making different immigration benefit determinations for different families, the official said.
“There’s no one solution fits all,” the official said. “It will be an individual assessment.”
