{"id":609536,"date":"2021-08-03T12:35:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T16:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=609536"},"modified":"2021-08-03T12:35:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T16:35:39","slug":"biden-names-official-to-help-reverse-trump-era-immigration-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-names-official-to-help-reverse-trump-era-immigration-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Names Official To Help Reverse Trump-Era Immigration Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-names-official-to-help-reverse-trump-era-immigration-policies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=609536&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration has appointed an official to help reverse immigration policies enacted under former President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas Guttentag, a <a href=\"https:\/\/law.stanford.edu\/directory\/lucas-guttentag\/\">professor<\/a> at Stanford Law School, will serve as senior counselor on immigration policy and report to Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/08\/02\/biden-immigration-lawyer-502190\">first reported<\/a> Monday. He previously served in former President Barack Obama\u2019s administration as a senior adviser on immigration policy and senior counselor at the Homeland Security Department.<\/p>\n<p>Guttentag will not only help reverse Trump-era immigration policies but will also coordinate the Biden administration\u2019s policies among several departments and agencies, people familiar with the matter said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/08\/02\/biden-immigration-lawyer-502190\">according<\/a> to Politico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not good that it took so long, but there couldn\u2019t be a better person in my opinion,\u201d one person said. \u201cThere\u2019s very few people who understand immigration law and policy like Lucas.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.6433121019108\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW: After months of delay, Biden taps lawyer to help rescind Trump immigration policy <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bd2V6tyFMG\">https:\/\/t.co\/bd2V6tyFMG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anita Kumar (@anitakumar01) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anitakumar01\/status\/1422327774270873600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Guttentag\u2019s new role in the Biden administration is similar to the position held by Gene Hamilton during the Trump administration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/08\/02\/biden-immigration-lawyer-502190\">according<\/a> to Politico. Hamilton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/10\/27\/politics\/administration-immigration-official-joining-doj\/index.html\">helped coordinate policy<\/a> in both the Homeland Security and Justice Departments, and laid the groundwork for much of the Trump administration\u2019s immigration agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Biden had intended since the presidential transition to appoint a senior official at the Justice Department focused on reversing the Trump administration\u2019s immigration policies, people familiar with the matter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/12\/07\/biden-trump-immigration-policies-443468\">said<\/a> in December 2020.<\/p>\n<p>But the administration had named no such official six months into the president\u2019s term, leaving immigration activists frustrated by the delay, Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/08\/02\/biden-immigration-lawyer-502190\">reported<\/a>. Biden has mainly focused on other priorities, including the COVID-19 pandemic and his infrastructure agenda. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/21\/border-officials-title-42-expel-migrants\/\">(RELATED: Biden Admin Will Keep Restrictions Allowing Border Officials To Expel Migrants For Another Month)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The president had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/09\/14\/912060869\/biden-pledges-to-dismantle-trumps-sweeping-immigration-changes-but-can-he-do-tha\">pledged to reverse<\/a> many of the Trump administration\u2019s immigration policies during the 2020 election and presidential transition. He rescinded some policies <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/02\/biden-to-sign-three-executive-orders-on-immigration-rolling-back-trump-policies\/\">through executive orders<\/a> early in his term, but certain items in his immigration agenda <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/28\/joe-biden-congress-joe-biden\/\">must go through<\/a> Congress or <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/26\/texas-district-judge-drew-tipton-blocks-joe-biden-100-day-deportation-ban\/\">have been blocked<\/a> in federal courts.<\/p>\n<p>Trump enacted more than 400 changes to U.S. immigration policy through executive action during his term in office, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.migrationpolicy.org\/news\/mpi-report-catalogs-immigration-executive-actions-trump-presidency\">according<\/a> to a Migration Policy Institute report published in July 2020.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7251425\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7251425\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7251425 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-943164704-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"A US Border Patrol is seen from Mexico while patrolling along the border line between the cities of El Paso, Texas, in the United States, and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico on April 7, 2018. The US states of Texas and Arizona on Friday announced plans to send National Guard troops to the southern border with Mexico after President Donald Trump ordered a thousands-strong deployment to combat drug trafficking and illegal immigration. \/ AFP PHOTO \/ HERIKA MARTINEZ (Photo credit should read HERIKA MARTINEZ\/AFP via Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-943164704-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-943164704-197x120.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-943164704-620x378-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-943164704-768x468-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-943164704-1536x936-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-943164704-2048x1248-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7251425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Border Patrol is seen while patrolling along the border line between the cities of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on April 7, 2018 (Herika Martinez\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The former president pushed for major policy changes including <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/07\/08\/department-of-justice-legal-team-census-citizenship\/\">adding a citizenship question<\/a> to the Census, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/06\/29\/trumps-travel-ban-is-about-to-take-effect\/\">restricting entry<\/a> to citizens of several Muslim-majority countries, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/03\/26\/trump-fence-funding-buil-the-wall\/\">building a wall<\/a> along the southern border, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/08\/31\/report-trump-expected-to-end-daca\/\">ending<\/a> the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/11\/08\/trump-order-asylum-rules-migrant-caravan\/\">limiting<\/a> asylum claims. A number of Trump-era policies were <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/06\/18\/supreme-court-trump-admin-roberts-daca\/\">restricted<\/a> by federal courts or <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/07\/biden-blinken-asylum-cooperative-agreements-end\/\">overturned<\/a> under Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Guttentag\u2019s appointment comes as the Biden administration continues to face a surge in migrants along the southern border. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/16\/border-190000-migrants\/\">reported<\/a> more than 190,000 encounters along the southern border in June, including thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/11\/migrant-minors-health-human-services-facilities\/\">unaccompanied minors<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/29\/customs-and-border-protection-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-kevin-mccarthy-rosa-delauro\/\">(RELATED: House Democrats Propose Defunding Immigration Enforcement Agencies Amid Border Crisis)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The situation <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/17\/biden-inhumane-border-crisis-republican-representatives\/\">has been dubbed<\/a> a \u201cborder crisis\u201d by Republicans and media outlets, though the Biden administration has been <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/19\/biden-border-crisis-psaki-white-house\/\">hesitant at times<\/a> to use the term. Critics have also noted concerns about the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/15\/cbp-agents-covid-exposure-overtime-understaffed\/\">spread of COVID-19<\/a> through the southern border along with a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/30\/fentanyl-border-patrol-seizure\/\">surge in illegal drugs<\/a> such as fentanyl and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/26\/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-federal-help-southern-border-crisis\/\">human trafficking<\/a> operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration has appointed an official to help reverse immigration policies enacted under former President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.Lucas Guttentag, a professor at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}