President Biden is expected to soon announce an executive order
allowing him to temporarily seal the border to migrants when
border crossing surge.
This would be a major change limiting the ability of
asylum seekers to make their claims.
Tell us about this executive order and why President Biden
is taking this action now.
Yeah. So President Biden is expected to roll out this
executive order on Tuesday.
And it comes, Look, it's sort of when you talk
about timing,
it's sort of twofold. A,
it comes after Congress twice failed to do something about
the situation at the southern border.
You'll remember a bipartisan group of senators rolled out that
bipartisan border deal back in February that actually included some
of the provisions that are reported to be in the
executive order. But Republicans quickly shot that down,
essentially arguing that now with that either it was too
little too late.
But really, some Republicans not wanting to hand President Biden
a decisive win in an election year because immigration has
been a key issue this campaign.
And that brings me to my second point.
Why now is because poll after poll,
we have seen that the border and immigration are a
top concern.
To voters in the lead up to November.
Now Republicans have really had an upper hand on this
issue.
Have their have had their messaging honed in,
not as much for Democrats.
So President Biden clearly trying to make a play here
on the issue of immigration and the border because he
sees how important it is to voters.
Now whether or not it'll be successful,
that remains to be seen.
But it's been a real problem for the president and
it became clear that he has to do something about
it both politically,
well, really especially politically.