executive order yesterday that will shut down asylum requests at the southern border when crossings spike. under the order, border officials will stop accepting requests when daily encounters reach an average of 2,500 migrants at legal points of entry. the shutdown will go into effect immediately, as department of homeland security officials say encounters have reached 4,000 migrants daily. the border will only reopen once the number falls to 1,500 migrants. joining us now is homeland security secretary, alejandro mayorkas. thank you very much for being on the show. obviously, this has had mixed reaction. even from democrats. but explain how this works. what happens as this executive order goes into effect, what happens to the excessive number of migrants trying to make it across over the border? mika, good morning and thank you for having me. the goal here is to reduce the number of people who come to the
joe. 23 past the hour. president biden issued appear executive order yesterday that will shut down asylum requests at the southern border when crossings spike. the shutdown will go into effect immediately as department of homeland security official say encounters have reached 4,000 migrants daily. the border will only reopen once the number falls to 1500 migrants. speaking at the white house, the president said he would prefer to do this with congress but republicans blocked that effort. take a listen. republicans in congress not all of them walked away from. why? because donald trump told them to. he told the republicans and published widely by many of you he didn t want to fix the issue but use it to attack me. today, i m moving past republican obstruction and using
voters across the uk head to the polls, rishi sunak and sir keir starmer clash in their first tv debate of the general election campaign. hello, i m caitriona perry. you re very welcome. us presidentjoe biden has announced sweeping new measures aimed at deterring migrants from crossing into the united states from mexico. under the new actions, officials can quickly remove migrants who enter the us illegally without processing their asylum requests. the white house says that will happen once a daily threshold is met and the border is overwhelmed. in this case, overwhelmed means when the seven day average for daily crossings hits 2,500 triggering the restriction. that threshold of of 2,500 has already been passed this week meaning these policies will likely go into effect at midnight on tuesday. the us southern border will reopen to asylum seekers
deathbed conversion by joe biden. basically this executive order, which would be by my count the 95th executive order he issues does nothing about catch and release and says the first 2500 that come across the border get in free. bill: 23 days from debate number one and today president biden will sign an executive order that might affect the border. the idea if daily migrant encounters exceed 2500 a day, asylum requests will be shut down. according to available data this is the number that we have. estimated number of illegals who enter the country since joe biden took the white house surpassing 5 million. griff jenkins has lived on the border and on the white house north lawn today. good morning. we have yet to see the text of any of these executive actions on the border but we just learned moments ago from
ask tough questions and be in the right place to bring our viewers a firsthand look at what s really happening. john: absolutely no better team than them. i am john roberts in washington this is america reports the executive action would effectively bring down asylum requests at the border once the number of daily encounters above 2500 we are well above that every day but now it is in congressman jim jordan ahead and moments. sandra: these reporters now covering from the beginning religion is they are and griff jenkins at the white house. give us the details so far about this executive action the president is about to announce and from your view what real impact will it have? yes, so reading this