Immigration

The president also used his first question-and-answer session with the press to announce a new coronavirus vaccination target of 200 million shots in his first 100 days in office.

"It is heartbreaking to find such small children fending for themselves in the middle of nowhere," an official said.

Advocates are pushing the idea of evacuating thousands of Afghans to Guam or other safe locations, where officials could vet them for U.S. resettlement.

The move was being made "to restore faith in the legal immigration system and reduce barriers and undue burdens to intending immigrants.”

"I think defining our identities as teens is such a huge challenge," the novelist said, "and being an immigrant, or the child of immigrants, adds a whole other dimension to the struggle."

The task force to reunite separated families is working on a process under which "immediate family members," like siblings and stepparents, "can also apply."

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas says his department's focus is on reuniting migrant families that had been separated at the U.S.-Mexico border and not holding Trump administration officials accountable for putting policies in place during an exclusive interview with Jacob Soboroff.

"The result is that immigrant communities become fearful of public institutions," said Nayna Gupta of the National Immigrant Justice Center.

An ACLU lawyer said his group is negotiating with the Biden admin to reunify thousands of separated families in the U.S. and give them permanent status.

The Biden family reunification task force estimates that more than 1,000 migrant families separated during the Trump administration still need to be reunited.

It was not immediately clear if the Biden admin’s plan would permanently all wall projects along the border, like those paid for from the DHS budget.