the united states illegally. we ve just crossed the border into mexico to hear what this executive order means for people on this side of the border. james: the cbs evening news starts now. and just hours at 12:01 a.m. eastern time, president biden s aggressive new border restrictions take effect. i m james brown in for norah o donnell. the impact of this executive action will be immediately, soon, u.s. immigration officials will be authorized to deport large numbers of migrants without processing their asylum claims. the restrictions will stay in effect until illegal crossings dipped below 1500 migrants a day, and they will be triggered again if crossings spike. we have team coverage from the border to the white house, and that s where we start, with cbs s nancy cordes. nancy, this is a dramatic election-year move. what does this mean? reporter: j.b., what this means is that starting tomorrow, most migrants who cross the border illegally will not be allowed to se
unstable conditions. while republicans, who have urged biden to take executive action, slammed him today for doing just that. why didn t you do this in 2021? why didn t you do this in 2022? if he was concerned about the border he would have done a semitime ago. reporter: the restrictions are short a face legal challenges. the aclu telling cbs news today, we intend to sue. a ban on asylum is illegal, just as it was when trump unsuccessfully tried it. biden insisted his approach is more humane than trump s. i ll never separate children from their families at the border. i will not ban people from this country because of their religious beliefs. reporter: my colleague, lilia luciano, is at the border near tucson, arizona, one of the busiest sectors for migrant crossings this year. reporter: we have just crossed into to be 21, mexico, to hear about what this executive order means for folks on this side of the border. i think it is devastating.
two days before our first heat wave of the summer. reporter: and today, arizona lawmakers passed a proposal to ask voters in november whether to make crossing unlawfully from mexico into the state a state crime. j.b.? james: lilia luciano and nancy cordes, thank you so much. jurors and hunter biden s federal gun trial got their first look at key evidence today. a photo of hunter biden shortlists, pictures of drugs, and the gun application document at the center of the case. cbs s scott macfarlane was inside the courtroom for the dramatic first day of testimony. reporter: and emotional first day in the trial of hunter biden, with the first lady and hunter biden s wife seated behind the president s son, prosecutors and fbi agent f biden s 2021 audiobook of his memoirs, in which he narrated his descent into addiction to crack cocaine in 2018. i used my superpower, finding crack anytime, anywhere, less
the united states illegally. we ve just crossed the border into mexico to hear what this executive order means for people on this side of the border. james: the cbs evening news starts now. and just hours at 12:01 a.m. eastern time, president biden s aggressive new border restrictions take effect. i m james brown in for norah o donnell. the impact of this executive action will be immediately, soon, u.s. immigration officials will be authorized to deport large numbers of migrants without processing their asylum claims. the restrictions will stay in effect until illegal crossings dipped below 1500 migrants a day, and they will be triggered again if crossings spike. we have team coverage from the border to the white house, and that s where we start, with cbs s nancy cordes. nancy, this is a dramatic election-year move. what does this mean? reporter: j.b., what this means is that starting tomorrow, most migrants who cross the border illegally will not be
reporter: joanna williams serves migrants in nogales mexico. what s interesting in the last couple months as it actually hasn t been that busy here and in the sector the numbers have been going down. the timing of this order is, therefore, purely political. reporter: you been here since october of last year? people like pedro solis wait eight months for an appointment to ask for asylum using a u.s. government app, with no luck, many giving up. so the problem right now isn t that people don t want to use the cbp one app, they are applying for an appointment every single day. but there aren t enough of appointments available. and again, this order doesn t increase that number of appointment availability at all. reporter: what is the consequence of deterrent policies from where you stand? policies have been in effect for over 20 years here at the border and what they lead to is an increase in deaths. there are other option is to try to go out into the desert and avoid border p