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He government from the president Donald Trump signed agreements with state and local authorities in what appears to be an effort to make it harder for the incoming Joe Biden administration to keep its pledge to quit deportations and make asylum applications more flexible, the media reported last Friday journalistic BuzzFeed.
According to documents obtained by BuzzFeed, he Ministry of Homeland Security (DHS) of the United States has signed agreements with the governments of Arizona, Louisiana and Indiana and the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina requiring the Executive to provide a 180-day notice before making any significant number of changes to implement. about immigration policy.
This dedication, known as Sanctuary First Enactment Agreement for Americans (SAFE), will halt implementation of the new policies of the new democratic government for at least six months.
This latest effort was revealed less than a week after Biden took office, signed by Ken Cuccinelli, the second in command of DHS.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) responded immediately. In a statement, Naureen Shah, the organization’s senior policy and defense adviser, said that “this is a transparent attempt by Trump officials to tie the hands of the Biden-Harris administration and maintain Trump’s grotesque immigration policy.”
“The Biden administration has the authority, the mandate and the responsibility to break with the legacy of the Trump administration, and nothing about these reported agreements changes that reality,” the lawyer added.
For his part Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, said in a Twitter post that the deals “don’t even pass the laugh test, and certainly not a legal check.”
Amid the scandal that has brought him to the eve of a second impeachment trial, Trump made his last visit as president to the wall on the Mexican border this week, and from there he sent a message to Biden urging him on immigration policy to maintain that he government implanted.