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Biden Reverses Trump Census Actions

1/20/2021

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Biden Takes Action to Reverse Trump Actions on the Undocumented and the 2020 Census
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
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President Joseph R Biden, Jr. issued an executive order today reversing former President Donald J. Trump's effort to exclude the undocumented from being considered for the purposes of apportioning seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.  The action, embodied in Executive Order 13986, was one of six migration-related first-day actions taken by the new president.
The new President's actions revoked two Trump-era measures: Executive Order 13880 of July 11, 2019 (Collecting Information About Citizenship Status in Connection With the Decennial Census), and the Presidential Memorandum of July 21, 2020 (Excluding Illegal Aliens From the Apportionment Base Following the 2020 Census).

In the executive order, aimed at the Secretary of Commerce, the official who administers the decennial census, the President ordered that "the Secretary shall use tabulations of population reflecting the whole number of persons whose usual residence was in each State as of the census date, without regard to immigration status, in reports provided to the Governor and officers or public bodies having responsibility for legislative apportionment or districting of each State."

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Biden Moves to "Fortify" DACA on First Day in Office

1/20/2021

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Biden Moves to Undo Trump's Attempts to
​Rescind DACA
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
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President Joseph R. Biden moved today to preserve and fortify the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, directing the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Attorney General, to "take all actions he deems appropriate, consistent with applicable law, to preserve and fortify DACA."  The action, embodied in a Presidential Memorandum  was one of six migration-related actions taken by the new president on his first day in office.
​The Presidential Memorandum commends the DACA program, asserting the persons who have been protected by it "were brought to the United States as children, have obeyed the law, and stayed in school or enlisted in the military."   Continuing, it asserts that "DACA reflects a judgment that these immigrants should not be a priority for removal based on humanitarian concerns and other considerations, and that work authorization will enable them to support themselves and their families, and to contribute to our economy, while they remain. 

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