Biden lifts travel ban on Nigeria, Others

By Modupe Shodeinde

President of the United States, Joe Biden has lifted the travel ban placed on citizens from Nigeria, Eritrea, Yemen, Sudan and others.

The president on his first day in office on Wednesday, signed some executive orders undoing some of former President Donald Trump’s policies.

He also canceled a 2017 travel ban on people from several predominantly Muslim countries.

President Biden had referred to such policy as discriminatory and against the country’s values.

He also ordered that the construction of a border wall near Mexico be halted. The wall was one of Trump’s pet projects during his 2016 presidential campaign.

Other major immigration orders passed by the incoming president include reversing plans to exclude people who are in the country illegally from the 2020 census and preserving Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). This program has shielded hundreds of thousands of people who came to the country as children from deportation.

The president also sent a bill to the Congress, which aims at giving legal status and provide a path to the US citizenship to anyone in the country before January 1.

This bill also aims to reduce the time that family members must wait outside the US for green cards.