U.S President Joe Biden on his first day in office issued some executive orders undoing some of former President Donald Trump’s policies.
Among the 17
executive orders and presidential actions Biden signed on Wednesday were the
order to end travel restrictions and immigration from countries including
Nigeria, Eritrea, Yemen, Sudan and others.
“There’s no
time to waste,” Biden said before signing the executive orders in the White
House.
“These are
just all starting points,” he added.
The American
Civil Liberties Union, a non-profit civil rights organisation, applauded the
move calling the travel policy a “cruel Muslim ban that targeted Africans.”
However, the
ban was changed, in part due to legal challenges, and included some non-majority-Muslim
nations.
President
Biden described the policy as discriminatory and an affront to the country’s
values.
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