On Day One, US President Biden Reverses Odious Travel Ban

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image President Joe Biden signs his first executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, January 20, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Evan Vucci Today, US President Joseph Biden issued an executive order reversing one of the first in a slew of anti-immigrant and anti-refugee policies put in place by the administration of his predecessor, Donald Trump: the travel ban on people from several Muslim-majority and African countries. Although much remains to be done, this is an important and necessary step to reversing the Trump administration’s abusive policies.…

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