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Significance
The move, designed to ease migrant outflows from the sub-region by improving work opportunities and living standards, forms part of a broader effort by the Biden administration to pursue more humane migration policies.
Impacts
Further executive orders are expected in the coming days, including to raise a refugee admissions cap to 125,000, up from 15,000.
Legislation could take a long time to get through the US Congress, leaving executive orders vulnerable to legal challenge.
Climate change will worsen droughts, flooding and food insecurity in the coming years, compounding migration pressures.
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