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Biden to issue executive orders on asylum, legal immigration, separated families

US President Joe Biden on Tuesday will order a major review of asylum processing at the US-Mexico border and the legal immigration system as he seeks to undo some of former president Donald Trump's hard-line policies, two senior administration officials said on Monday evening.

Biden on Tuesday will also create a task force to reunite migrant families who were separated at the US-Mexico border by Trump’s 2018 "zero-tolerance" border strategy, the officials said on a call with reporters...

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