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But there is no doubt briana, that this is a dramatic and drastic measure, four joe biden, who in 2019 was saying that the former president shouldn t be clamping down on asylum seekers that the united states was a refuge to those migrants. and today, he is taking an action to clamp down on those same asylum seekers. so it is certainly a significant policy shifts for this white house, which over the years sears has repeatedly grappled with border crisis. yeah. we re keeping our eye right now on the podium there at the white house. you can see it here on your screen or the president will soon be speaking. but priscilla, we re also learning that president biden is going to speak with mexico s president today. a source tells me that the president is expected to connect with mexican president andres manuel lopez obrador, senior administration officials have repeatedly said that this executive action really does also hinge on cooperation from mexico. and we have seen that time and again ....
Distinguish himself from former president donald trump, who used the same authority in some of the immigration actions he took while in office. but biden, there was trying to say, i m not going to separate families. i m not going to hold people in at the border in cages, things like that where he is trying to set clear boundaries around what he s doing as opposed to what trump was doing. but briana, the fact remains, were looking at the list here of various elected officials who were there for this announcement. a bipartisan group, but not any progressives on that list and they re already starting to put out their statements. that s right so obviously opposition on the right as well. we go to priscilla alvarez, she is there at the white house. she has been following this. the president priscilla saying he s not going to demonize immigrants prince, he s not going to use the american military to go into communities across the country and deport people as former president trump says tha ....
Podium. you seem eastern before this positioning of it is obviously different. this is a big day and this is coming just really short time, a few weeks before the president has a debate with former president donald trump. this is been a political vulnerability for him. the issue of immigration and he is going to have this in his pocket when he does do that debate i think we have priscilla alvarez we have priscilla alvarez who was there and we did just get notice that this is going to begin here shortly. priscilla, what should we be expecting? and i also think it s interesting who you see and who you don t see in the audience here, because there are some progressive democrats who have taken issue with what we re expecting to hear from the president that s exactly right. briana, it is notable. who is there and who isn t because over the course of the de, we ve seen that intense backlash from progressives who say, this is ....
This executive action and how mexico so intends to cooperate. remember briana, mexico just had its presidential election over the weekend, so they re going to be in a time of transition as well. and i was told early on that part of the calculus. and when this was going to be released, this executive action was after mexico s election. so all of that really coming together in this moment for this announcement by president biden. priscilla. thank you so much for that report. let s go now to cnn s rosa flores. she is there along the border with mexico. she s in hidalgo, texas. rosa. what impact is this executive action likely to have there at the border? while brianna reaction is coming in fast and furious. let me start with the top executive of b that go county here we re in this official saying that he s happy that this executive action is being issued today. and he says that he like many other officials on the border, had been asking for for some sort of reprieved, some sort of ....