The new restrictions are triggered when average daily encounters at the border surpass 2,500.
Republicans blasted the changes as too little too late, while progressives and migrant advocacy groups denounced them as overreaching.
Biden said he would have preferred bipartisan immigration legislation, which he described as the only way to comprehensively fix a broken system, while hiring more Border Patrol agents, asylum officers and judges.earlier this year between Democrats and U.S. Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla. Democrats said that proposal would have been the toughest border legislation passed in years and cited the Border Patrol union’s backing, but most Senate Republicans have rejected it as misguided.
Biden’s move was swiftly panned by Texas Republicans as too little, too late and an attempt to paper over a political vulnerability ahead of the November election. Biden’s opponent, former President Donald Trump, has a significant advantage in public polling when it comes to managing the border.“He has absolutely no intention of actually enforcing any of this,” Cornyn said. “This is not an improvement. This is a fig leaf. And I think the American people are not going to be fooled.”U.S. Rep.
Cruz said he’s glad Biden finally admitted he had the power to act on the border but offered the “too little too late” assessment favored by many GOP lawmakers.“This executive order is about the Biden administration trying to give themselves political cover ahead of the election in November, and it won’t work,” Cruz said. “The executive order will still allow thousands of illegal aliens to come across the border per day. That’s absurd, and the American people won’t buy it.
The daily threshold in the executive order represents a functional ban on asylum for families escaping violence, said U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio.“If this executive order goes into effect, it’s likely that every future president, especially Republicans, will use and expand it to choke off immigration and the right to asylum,” Castro said. “The political pressure to keep the ban in effect will be too overwhelming.
At the White House on Tuesday, Brownsville Mayor John Cowen said the number of migrant crossings has fallen in his sector in recent months, but officials know it can jump up again at any time. High numbers of migrants crossing the border illegally strains law enforcement, he said.He praised Tuesday’s actions, which he said should push people to use legal pathways for entry.
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