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Jean-Pierre tried to answer the question without giving too much away. “I’m not going to get into or comment on individual policy options that are being speculated right now.” But she quickly placed the blame squarely on Republicans.
“We’ve been very clear about that, and we want to do it while treating people fairly and humanely, and that is consistent with our values. But look, Republicans continue to get in the way. Speaker Johnson has gotten in the way of this.”
This past week, Axios reported:
President Biden may be taking a cue from former President Trump, indicating how worried the White House is about immigration.
The bipartisan border talks in the Senate have come to an end. However, the president’s border political issue still exists.
Congress does not need to approve the drastic measures that Biden is thinking of taking on the southern border, such as an executive order that would limit migrants’ ability to seek asylum.
As CNN first reported, Biden would try to use presidential action to deny asylum applicants at the border if they enter the country illegally. This is akin to what the Senate compromise proposal included.
Trump has made many attempts to impede asylum seekers’ entry, and he intends to carry out the same action should he win reelection. Biden’s consideration of legal authority overrode Trump’s Muslim ban and other such broad limitations at the border, which were challenged in court.
Trump intends to utilize U.S. Code Section 212f, which gives the president extensive authority to “suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants” if their entry “would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.”
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The situation along the border between the United States and Mexico has been unparalleled during the last three years, as U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel have reported consistently breaking records for the number of migrant interactions.
Over the course of the last year, millions of people crossed the border 2.5 million times. Many of these migrants underwent arduous travels, passing through Central and South American nations in addition to Mexico.
