Meeks Applauds the Biden-Harris Administration for Immigration Reform

Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Gregory W. Meeks, issued the following statement regarding the Biden Administration's immigration related executive orders:

"I applaud the Biden-Harris administration for acting immediately to reverse the disastrous Trump-era immigration policies, especially the efforts to reunify children with their families, rescind the un-American public charge rule, and repair our asylum system.

"The Trump administration's intentional decision to separate children from their parents as a way to deter immigration will go down as one of the cruelest policies in modern US history. The emotional and psychological damage caused by that policy cannot be undone by executive order, but the newly created taskforce to locate the families of the 600 children still separated will help to reunify them.

"Together with the administration's first week of executive orders – protecting Dreamers, removing the xenophobic African and Muslim travel ban, and stopping the construction of border wall – these orders show that immigration is a priority for President Biden.

I look forward to working with the Biden-Harris administration to further reform our broken immigration system."