Creating a Comprehensive Regional Framework To Address the Causes of Migration, To Manage Migration Throughout North and Central America, and To Provide Safe and Orderly Processing of Asylum Seekers at the United States Border

2021-02-05Executive Order 14010
Signed by: Joseph R. Biden Jr.
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Headline: Creates Regional Strategy to Manage Migration and Restore Asylum

What it does: Agencies must prepare regional strategies, expand lawful migration pathways, and restore safe, orderly asylum processing at the U.S. border.

Real World Impact:
  • Creates new regional plans to address violence, corruption, and economic instability.
  • Expands pathways for refugees and reviews family reunification and parole programs.
  • Restores asylum processing at land borders and reviews removal-related rules.
Topics: immigration policy, border processing, refugee and asylum, Central American development

Summary

This order requires the U.S. government to create a regional strategy to address why people are migrating and to manage migration across North and Central America.

It directs officials to build and strengthen asylum systems and resettlement in partner countries, expand lawful pathways to the United States, and restore safe, orderly processing of asylum seekers at land borders.

The order also tells agencies to review parole and expedited removal programs, consider ending past agreements and policies, and focus on reducing violence, corruption, and economic insecurity that drive migration.

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