President Joe Biden’s hundred day moratorium on deportations was supposed to ease anxieties in immigrant communities after four years of harsh crackdowns by the recently ended administration.
But across the nation, deportations continue at about the same pace as before Biden was inaugurated Jan. 20. That’s because the Texas attorney general sued to stop the policy change, with a judge issuing a temporary injunction on the moratorium through Feb, 23.
The fight over deportations in the courts and the halls of Congress signals the difficulty the Biden administration will have in changing immigration policy. Immigrant families are feeling increased anxiety and fear as they cope with a changing landscape.
And, ironically, fewer people were deported in President Donald Trump’s term than in the first four years of President Barack Obama. And his second term.
Hundreds of immigrants have been removed in recent weeks to Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Honduras and Haiti. Groups ranging from
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