One of the Biden Administration's commitments has been to review thousands of deportation cases and reunite those who qualify with their American families. In a statement shared with The Independent, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently stated: "The Department is developing a rigorous and systematic approach to reviewing these cases and is working to put in place an orderly process for people to make their claims." They added: "This work takes time, but we are moving quickly to launch these processes... as we continue to collaborate on rebuilding our immigration system."

Focus areas include:

Military families and veterans. As for military veterans, some of the cases being reviewed include deportations dating back a decade or more. Veterans advocates estimate that hundreds of veterans have been deported over the years and perhaps thousands of their family members. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), a military veteran and strong advocate for the immigration rights of undocumented veterans, explains part of the problem: "There are executive orders, laws and policies that give veterans their citizenship, but the [Department Defense] and [U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services] have not been processing the paperwork. We have cases where veterans filed paperwork with their unit thinking everything was done, and it wasn't. And they just They find out when they are handed over to ICE.” (It should be noted that citizenship is not automatic; these soldiers do have to do the same paperwork as any other applicant, but there are supposedly means to facilitate the process in these circumstances.)

ICE, when detaining someone, is also supposed to examine service members to determine if they are eligible for U.S. citizenship or other immigration benefits before deporting them, but the Office of Government Accountability found in 2019 that the agency He did not track how many veterans he had deported from the country, often after they were arrested for minor crimes.

Although a good number of military deportations occurred even before the Trump Administration, one thing that ICE did in recent years, according to Senator Duckworth, was that it "failed to honor the agreement that the Department of Defense and [the Department of Homeland Security] had to avoid deporting the undocumented relatives of military personnel who were deployed abroad. It mentions cases where undocumented spouses were deported and their children were turned over to social services, while the other spouse was on active duty overseas!

The Washington Post shares Juana's story. She and her husband came to the United States decades ago and have 10 children and 18 grandchildren, including a son who serves in the Air Force. Her husband was able to acquire his citizenship, but she could not do so due to a technical issue. When this grandmother received her deportation papers, the entire city was furious and advocated for her, but to no avail. She was separated from her family for two years. Her military son, serving overseas, wrote a letter to U.S. officials urging them to allow him to return, and with the help of a U.S. representative, Salud Carbajal, who is also a Marine veteran, he was allowed him to return with a humanitarian parole. Your case will be reviewed within a year. But there are thousands of people who continue to wait and wish for a similar result.

Other cases that are being reviewed are:

Young immigrants who were excluded from the protections of the DACA program, (which allows people who were brought to the US as children to live and work in the country without fear of deportation) due to the efforts of Mr. Trump to kill the initiative, they will also be eligible to have their cases reviewed. There is a promise to review all of these cases but it has been slow. In fact, according to Boundless.org, there are 50,000 new applications since the program was reinstated that are still awaiting approval.

The administration could also include in its review immigrants who have spouses, children or other relatives who are U.S. citizens and who can demonstrate that their families were dramatically affected by the deportation of a family member, according to The Washington Post .

One senseless case reported by Politico was that of Cecilia Gonzales Carmona. Her husband, Jason Rochester, never imagined that his wife, a mother with no criminal record, born in Mexico, would end up blocked from entering the US under Trump's harsh immigration policies. She was not deported, but rather voluntarily left the country with plans to return legally, but instead was denied re-entry, even after the couple's five-year-old son was diagnosed with cancer, had a kidney and underwent 10 months of radiation and chemotherapy.

He is one of many people hoping to see their case overturned by the Biden administration.

Sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/06/25/military-mother-returns-part-bidens-promise-reverse-deportations-veterans-families-service-members/ https:// news.yahoo.com/tammy-duckworth-her-fight-shield-123135971.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-trump-military-deportations-reversed -b1874967.html https://www.boundless.com/blog/daca-processing-delays/ https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/06/29/trump-deported-immigrants-biden- return-496786