U.S. President Joe Biden’s executive orders this week reversing Trump administration immigration policies change little on the ground now but set the stage for future action, experts told VOA. It is a message Biden himself reinforced when he signed three orders Tuesday. “I want to make it clear — there’s a lot of talk, with good reason, about the number of executive orders that I have signed. I’m not making new law.

President-elect Joe Biden’s top advisers say the incoming administration will “need time” to undo what they regard as damaging U.S. immigration and border enforcement policies implemented under President Donald Trump. In an interview with Spanish wire service EFE this week, Susan Rice, Biden’s incoming domestic policy adviser, and Jake Sullivan, his pick for national security adviser, said U.S. border policies the Trump administration put in place to deter mass migration will not disappear overnight.  “We will be able to take some steps to change policies right away.