Biden Will Try to Unmake Trump’s Immigration Agenda. It Won’t Be Easy

Julia Preston for the Marshall Project writes on the formidable challenges to President-elect Biden to overturning the Trump administration immigration policies:

“As President-elect Joe Biden moves deliberately to transition towards the White House, even while Trump refuses to accept defeat, he has laid out a fast-paced agenda to unwind Trump’s harsh immigration policies. But even if Biden quickly orders a final end to family separations and re-opens the border for asylum-seekers, his plans could stall without action at the Justice Department, which holds extensive power over the immigration system.

To carry out Biden’s proposals, his attorney general will have to reverse decisions by Sessions and Attorney General William Barr that sharply limited asylum . . . .  Biden’s justice officials will have to contend with an immigration appeals court loaded by Barr with conservative judges known for denying asylum.”

KJ