Like many others, in late January 2017, I went to the international airport closest to me to join mass protests over the ban. Over the course of the next four years Trump’s administration went on to nearly eviscerate the US asylum and refugee system. Ismail Alghazali, a Yemeni American who was separated from his wife and children who were stuck in Yemen, testified in September 2019 that he had yet to hold his baby daughter. As a result, many were separated from their families. It was the first, and unfortunately not the last, action of an administration that repeatedly categorized large swaths of non-citizens as dangerous because of their nationality, ethnicity, or religion.
The ban, which Trump authorized via executive order just days after his inauguration, evolved in response to court challenges and public outrage, but the intent to restrict immigration from nonwhite, Muslim, and low-income countries remained the same. Trump’s travel ban was commonly known as the “Muslim ban” because the original version stemmed from anti-Muslim animus. Although much remains to be done, this is an important and necessary step to reversing the Trump administration’s abusive policies. 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. If confirmed, Cardona, who spent two decades of his career in education as a public school teacher, would offer a direct juxtaposition to the Trump administration's former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, a billionaire champion of school choice.President Joe Biden signs his first executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, January 20, 2021. Biden announced Connecticut schools' chief Miguel Cardona as his pick for education secretary. During the 2020 presidential primaries, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts proposed forgiving up to $50,000 in debt and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont called for cancelling all student loans. Biden has thrown his support behind Congressional action to cancel $10,000 of federal student debt per borrower, but some of his more progressive Democratic colleagues say that's not enough.
But exactly how the incoming administration plans to handle the $1.6 trillion debt remains unclear. Biden promised voters tackling student loan debt would be one of his top priorities as president. They should not be forced to choose between paying their student loans and putting food on the table," an official at the Department of Education wrote in a statement Thursday announcing the extension of the forbearance agreement. "Too many Americans are struggling to pay for basic necessities and to provide for their families. "The pandemic has only increased the economic hardship of the millions of Americans who have student debt."Ī Pew study from November found that nearly 6 in 10 borrowers said it would be "somewhat" or "very difficult" to restart payments on their loans the next month. "Borrowers of all ages are often faced with a tough tradeoff between making their student loan payments, investing in their long-term financial future, or paying their bills," Biden administration officials wrote in a statement. Many, including his action on student debt and and an extension on eviction and foreclosure moratoriums, are aimed at relieving Americans from economic burdens worsened by the coronavirus pandemic. Biden signed on his first day in office Wednesday evening. Requesting the department issue a forbearance extension on federal student loans was among 17 executive actions Mr. At the request of President Joe Biden, the Department of Education on Thursday extended the already nearly yearlong pause on student loan payments through September, allowing the new administration to begin delivering on its campaign promise to prioritize and begin addressing the more than $1.5 trillion debt crisis.
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