(Feb. 2) Watch live as President Joe Biden signs a trio of executive orders on Tuesday to reverse Donald Trump’s crackdown on asylum seekers and refugees, continuing his push to loosen his predecessor’s strict immigration policies. Biden will direct the Department of Homeland Security to conduct a broad review of asylum programs that were targeted by the Trump administration, asking his administration to rescind proclamations, rules, and guidance documents intended to curb the entry of migrants seeking humanitarian protection in the U.S. In a second executive order, Biden is ordering all federal agencies to conduct a review of policies and regulations that created barriers to legal immigration to the U.S. The order also re-establishes a White House task force dedicated to ensuring the legal immigration system works fairly and efficiently. The president’s third order will create a new task force charged with trying to reunite children who were forcibly separated from their guardians at the Mexico border under the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration enforcement policies. First lady Jill Biden is expected to serve on the task force. White House officials said Biden’s orders were designed to reverse policies they described as cruel and wasteful, while promoting inclusion and the integration of immigrants. The officials described the planned executive orders before their signing on the condition of anonymity. As part of the push, Biden is ordering Homeland Security to review the Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols, which forced asylum seekers at the southern border to wait in Mexico while U.S. courts processed their claims, which could take months or years. Immigrant-rights advocates said the measures put Central Americans fleeing persecution in peril by requiring them to stay in places where they could still face danger. Another set of Trump-era agreements that allowed the U.S. to send back asylum seekers who did not first seek relief in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala will also be placed under review, officials said. Trump administration officials defended the policies, which were enacted in 2019, as a means to stop a surge of migration from Central America. At the time, officials accused migrants seeking economic opportunity of taking advantage of so-called loopholes in the asylum system to gain entry into the U.S. Under the previous system, asylum applicants usually would be allowed into the country while their cases were processed in the courts. Biden will also begin the process rescinding the Trump administration’s public charge rule, which makes it easier to refuse entry to potential immigrants on the grounds they could become dependent on government assistance. The child separation task force -- which will be chaired by the Homeland Security secretary and include leaders of the State Department and Department of Health and Human Services -- will seek not only to identify children who were separated from their families but suggest ways the government could reunify families. The parents of more than 600 children still have not been located, according to government data. Trump ended the separation policy in 2018 in response to widespread public outrage. The Justice Department announced this week it had rescinded a Trump-era memo mandating the prosecution of any adult caught illegally crossing the U.S. border. The executive actions, which have been delayed as the White House waited for the Senate to confirm Alejandro Mayorkas as secretary of Homeland Security, fall short of the ambitions of some immigration reform activists. Biden won’t unveil a directive to open new refugee processing centers or increase the annual U.S. refugee cap, as he promised during the presidential campaign. And he won’t order the immediate release of children and their parents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2TwO8Gm Bloomberg Quicktake brings you live global news and original shows spanning business, technology, politics and culture. Make sense of the stories changing your business and your world. To watch complete coverage on Bloomberg Quicktake 24/7, visit http://www.bloomberg.com/qt/live, or watch on Apple TV, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, Fire TV and Android TV on the Bloomberg app. Connect with us on… YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Bloomberg Breaking News on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BloombergQuickTakeNews Twitter: https://twitter.com/quicktake Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quicktake Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quicktake