Roll Call quotes Loren Locke about early Biden executive orders
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday the president is expected to take additional immigration-related policy actions next week. She nor another White House spokesperson offered further details.
But former officials acknowledged that withdrawing a proclamation billed as a way to help U.S. workers, at a time when many Americans are out of work, could be tricky politically.
“The reason the Muslim ban got attention first is it’s just a more visible issue,” said Loren Locke, an immigration attorney and a former State Department consular officer. “These other proclamations were less controversial, even though they were hugely — and continue to be hugely — impactful.”
Ending a proclamation aimed at suspending foreign citizens “who present risk to the U.S. labor market,” as the proclamations are titled, could even prove divisive among the pro-labor factions of the Democratic party.