By JOHN KANELIS / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com

President Biden, using the power of the pen, is doing his level best to restore a sense of humanity and compassion to a national immigration policy that took on a radically different tone during the tenure of his immediate presidential predecessor.

Signing executive orders left and right in the Oval Office, Biden has reversed a Donald Trump administration policy that separated children from their parents in a widespread effort to stop illegal entry into this country.

The president said he isn’t enacting a new law, just discarding a bad policy with his executive order. The policy is as inhumane as anything we have seen in the past, oh, 60 or 70 years.

Politico reports: “Fully remedying [Trump’s] actions will take time and require a full government approach,” a senior administration official said in a briefing with reporters on Monday night.

“But President Biden has been very clear about restoring compassion and order to our immigration system and correcting the divisive, inhumane and immoral policies of the last four years,” the official said, adding that Biden’s action, so far, was “just the beginning.”

Biden signs executive orders on family separation and asylum – POLITICO

President Biden’s order establishes a task force that seeks to identify children separated from their parents. The Trump administration enacted what it called a “zero tolerance policy” on illegal entry and separated roughly 5,500 families; more than 600 children remain unaccounted for, according to officials.

President Biden vowed during the 2020 campaign to restore a sense of humanity to our immigration policy. No, he doesn’t favor “open borders,” which has become a demagogic canard for those who favored the family-separation policies enacted by Donald Trump’s administration. Biden’s stated goal is to give undocumented U.S. residents a faster track toward obtaining legal residency status or citizenship.

He wants families restored first. That is what the executive order seeks to do.