Biden issues new executive action: Much of southern border to close at midnight

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Biden issued long-expected executive actions on Tuesday to clamp down on migrants seeking asylum.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/04/biden-border-close-executive-action-migrants-00161483

President Joe Biden issued long-expected executive actions on Tuesday to clamp down on migrants seeking asylum, and in doing so set the stage for the U.S. border with Mexico to be shut down between ports of entry at midnight.

The action and accompanying rule from the Biden administration allows the president to close the border in between ports of entry when there is an average of 2,500 crossings a day over a seven day period. That threshold, administration officials said, has already been hit over the past week.

The announcement represents an aggressive attempt by Biden to bolster his standing on the border in advance of the November election. Biden is expected to use a speech on Tuesday to highlight his unilateral efforts to resolve the crisis, while congressional Republicans — at the behest of Donald Trump — killed efforts to pass bipartisan border legislation earlier this year.

The president will be joined later on Tuesday by members of Congress and local and state leaders from border cities and states, in an effort to project consensus and political strength on a topic that has long dogged him politically. It’s expected to spur blowback from progressives and immigration advocates, who plan to speak out against the move Tuesday afternoon.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Steering down the middle of an issue in a polarized electorate

I hope enough of the country is ready for what used to be mainstream and normal.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. He took the issue away from TSF!

Go Joe!

[Johnny2X2X]

3. They'l still whine

It's what they do. They'll say both, "This is an illegal action, he can't do this alone." And then a minute later they'll say, "Why didn't he do this 3 years ago?"

[Johnny2X2X]

8. FOXNews.com right now

'WHY DID YOU WAIT?'

'President Biden caves to political pressure on southern border just months before election'

They're going to frame this as he should have done something all along. And his reply will be, I was negotiating with legislators to get a more comprehensive deal, but Trump killed it.

[Greybnk48]

4. What are the MAGA's going to bitch about now? They got NOTHING! n/t

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. BREAKING: President Biden signs border security measure.

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[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. FWIW, this is the same law Trump used for the Muslim ban.

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/04/nx-s1-4991917/biden-executive-order-asylum-migration-border

Biden, who is running for reelection and has been facing criticism for the high number of migrants entering the United States, is relying on section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to implement these restrictions.

This is the same law former President Donald Trump — who is challenging Biden in this year's election— used in 2017 to ban immigration from several majority-Muslim countries, and in 2018 to suspend the entry of migrants between ports of entry along the Southern border. As it happened during the Trump administration, Biden’s executive order is expected to be challenged by immigrant rights groups.

[dalton99a]

7. About time.

[Mad_Machine76]

9. I understand why he is doing it

but I can't help it feels like Biden doing this validates GOP claims that he could have always done something via EO instead of working with Congress to pass something bipartisan- does this not take the GOP "off the hook" somewhat for blocking the bipartisan border bill?

[Torchlight]

15. I'm not sure how the GOP would be let off the hook

for willingly blocking a central tenet of their party's platform at the expense of that central tenet of their party's platform. I kinda think it places them on the hook even more.

Biden need only say, 'We tried. Again and again and again. But they refused to achieve what they wanted. Again and again and again.'

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. WATCH: President Biden delivers remarks on new border executive action

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[pinkstarburst]

11. I think this is the right call

And for any criticizing this move, I think it is the best of the bad choices. No one has been able to solve immigration up to this point. It will not be solved 100 years from now. This is probably the best choice Joe can make at this point in time.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. Biden cut through the Trump/MAGA Non action! He is the leader we need! No more GOP malarkey!

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[BannonsLiver]

13. For those equating Biden to Trump

You’re not fooling anyone, and any candidate that could meet your fantasyland purity left ideological standards is unelectable.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Statement from President Joe Biden on Actions to Secure the Border

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I would have preferred to address our issues at the border through bipartisan legislation because that’s the only way to actually fix our broken system –

But Republicans in Congress have left me no choice.

So today, I’m announcing actions that bar migrants who cross our southern border unlawfully from receiving asylum – unless they seek it after entering through established lawful processes.