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The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) has released a video summary of the new Biden Administration’s first 100 days of actions! This video clip is from the AILA University Video Roundtable “Biden Administration Immigration Action Roundtable Series” and was recorded on January 22, 2021. This is a recorded video of a live meeting updating and discussing President Biden’s Executive Actions and Orders taken up to this date.

Video – Biden’s First 100 days – ALIA Up-to-Date Video Review – 1/22/21

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Days after President Trump made the unusual move of removing Acting Secretary of DHS, Chad F. Wolf’s nomination from the U.S. Senate, he has resigned! Acting Secretary Wolf made his resignation effective the end of the day, Monday, January 11, 2021. He has been Acting Secretary of DHS since November 13, 2019 and was appointed by President Trump.

For complete details, please review this copy of Wolf’s Letter, “Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf’s resignation letter”.

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On January 3^rd, President Trump sent a nomination withdrawal to the Senate for Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, Chad F. Wolf. Wolf has been Acting Secretary of DHS since November 13, 2019 and was appointed by President Trump.

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Whitehouse (Whitehouse.gov), 1/7/21, NOMINATIONS & APPOINTMENTS:

USCIS announced on Friday, December 18th, that they were extending the flexibilities that they originally announced on March 30th. These flexibilities are for responding to certain requests from the USCIS, some are listed below:

• Requests for Evidence;
• Continuations to Request Evidence (N-14);

On a phone call on Saturday, December 19^th, President-elect Joe Biden, and Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador discussed the immigration problems in the region. They committed to working on a more humane strategy to their shared immigration problems, with their main problem coming from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and southern Mexico.

A member of Biden’s Presidential Transition Team stated, “the regional and border infrastructure and capacity needed to facilitate a new orderly and humane approach to migration that will respect international norms regarding the treatment of asylum claims,”.

For further details please review the Reuters News Article, “U.S. President-elect Biden, Mexico’s president vow to cooperate on immigration”.

The final days of a Presidential Administration often proves to be very busy! The Trump Administration will try to finish work on their key immigration priorities and try to preserve their immigration policies. They feel that the Trump administration will continue working hard until January 20, 2021 to make changes. This American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Alert points out and lists many of the possible changes the present Administration may make. They have also prioritized which changes will be the main targets. For further details please review the AILA Document, “Trump Policies That May Be Finalized Before Inauguration Day 2021”.

 
 
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AILA (AILA.org), 12/9/20, AILA Doc. No. 20112338:

List of some of the Top News Stories related to Judge’s Order on DACA!

A federal Judge from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York has ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to restore Deferred Action for the Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in full! Listed below are some of the top news articles about USCIS response to the Judge’s order, effective December 7, 2020:

VOA News, 12/5/20:

List of some of the Top News Stories related to Immigration:

Politico, 11/20/20:

Behind Trump’s final push to limit immigration