On Nov. 7, 2020, the Associated Press announced that Joseph R. Biden Jr. had won the 2020 election and would be become the 46th president of the United States. President Biden's victory could not have been more welcomed by the immigration law community after four years of the Trump administration enacting policies, proclamations and executive orders that severely curtailed immigration to the United States. Arguably the most notable recent order is the ban on individuals holding both immigrant and nonimmigrant visas, preventing many from returning to their U.S. jobs and homes amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Many of the attacks on the U.S. immigration system by the Trump administration have been successfully challenged in federal court. In the last two years, prominent U.S. organizations severely damaged by his actions were some of the plaintiffs, such as universities (Guilford College in one lawsuit; Harvard University and MIT in another) and business associations (U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers). Under the guise of putting America first, Trump's immigration actions were damaging to wide sectors of the U.S. economy like higher education, tech, production, and as we will discuss below, investments.