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Joe Biden will this week sign an executive order to temporarily close the southern US border to asylum seekers in a sharp political U-turn aimed at winning support on a key voter concern in a presidential election year.

The US president is expected to sign the order as early as Tuesday to seal the border with Mexico to migrants when numbers of asylum claimants rise above a daily threshold of 2,500.

Mayors of several US border cities are expected to be present in the White House for Biden’s announcement.

Biden’s move echoes a similar approach adopted by Donald Trump in 2018 when he was president and reverses his one-time philosophical opposition to his predecessor’s hostility to migrants. When he was a presidential candidate, Biden denounced Trump’s policy, saying it upended decades of US asylum law.

He has been forced to change course as the number of asylum seekers coming through the US-Mexico border has surged during his presidency, with opinion polls consistently showing immigration to be at or near the top of voters’ concerns, ahead of inflation and the economy.

An attempt by the White House to cobble together legislation tightening border restrictions by tying it to aid to Ukraine and Israel failed earlier this year after Republican lawmakers withdrew support, apparently at the urging of Trump, who did not want Biden to claim credit for resolving an issue he has attempted to make his own.

According to CBS, which broke the story, Biden’s executive order will enable US immigration officials to quickly deport migrants who enter the country illegally without processing their asylum claims.

Controversially, it will rely on a presidential authority known as 212 (f) which became infamous during Trump’s presidency because of its use to enforce certain immigration restrictions, including travel bans from Muslim countries.

Like Trump’s restrictions, Biden’s order is likely to face legal challenges.

Migration at the southern border surged to record numbers at the end of last year. But the order comes at a moment when the number of migrants crossing from Mexico is down in the past six months, a trend attributed to stronger enforcement on the part of the Mexican authorities but which is not expected to sustain itself.

An estimated 179,000 “border encounters” were recorded in April, according to US Customs and Border Protection figures, compared with a record high of 302,000 last December. More than 3,500 migrants were said to have crossed various points along the 2,000-mile border illegally on Sunday alone.

Biden initially rolled back Trump’s restrictive border policies after taking office in January 2021, issuing orders to freeze his predecessor’s border wall construction and reissuing protections set up under the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) scheme originally adopted by the Barack Obama White House.

Biden suspended Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy – whereby asylum seekers were forced to wait in Mexico while their US immigration claims were being considered – on the first day of his administration before the homeland security department formally cancelled it months later. The US supreme court subsequently upheld Biden’s approach following a lower court ruling against it.

When Trump’s policy was in operation, Biden denounced it, saying: “This is the first president in the history of the United States of America [under whom] anybody seeking asylum has to do it in another country. That’s never happened before.”

A recent Associated Press poll showed about two-thirds of voters, including 40% of Democrats, disapproved of Biden’s handling of the southern border.

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[–] ignirtoq@fedia.io 89 points 5 months ago (4 children)

This will be an unpopular opinion here, but Biden has been backed into a corner on this. The immigration system is fundamentally broken and not equipped to deal with modern needs, but that has to be fixed by Congress. Biden had legislation he was favoring, and regardless of what your opinion on it was, Republicans made it clear they won't let absolutely any changes to immigration happen with a Democrat in the White House, no matter how much they may agree with them.

His options under executive action are extremely limited. The strategy of letting the system flounder to illustrate the need for reform has only worked against him, so now he's trying something else. I don't agree with the current system, the reforms that he proposed, nor this executive order, but man, there just isn't a good solution here, and he's feeling the political pressure on it, which while it may be misdirected is nonetheless real.

[–] alilbee@lemmy.world 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm with you here. I don't like this EO, but wtf else is he supposed to do? It's the number one issue for a huge chunk of the populace. We're gonna have to do better than complaining about it to give any government official options that aren't just restrictions. People are hurting and dumb, and they blame immigrants. Solve that at the root, but you can't ignore it in the meantime.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The root of the problem is Congress. The last full overhaul of immigration policy was in 1986. Congress amended policy in 2019 and tied it to border security, focusing on protecting minors. Trump then twisted those protections into Title 42 by detaining children and deporting their parents.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/99th-congress/senate-bill/1200

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6

[–] alilbee@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

It usually is! We put way too much focus on the presidency for our woes. Thanks for the dates, that's helpful context.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Thank you. I’ve been commenting the same thing on similar posts. His power allows him three options, turn away at the border, detainment, or doing nothing. Doing nothing defaults to current immigration policy, which means migrants will be bused to overcrowded sanctuary cities to remain homeless due to lack of funding for housing.

He did the right thing by repealing Title 42. He left the border open and relied on sanctuary cities to house migrants while pressing Congress for immigration reform. Congress failed to pass a bill, and now sanctuary cities are over housing capacity. His only remaining options are turn away or detain.

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Context? In my comment section?

[–] andrewth09@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

How dare Biden try to appeal to Americans with different opinions than me.

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago

I can see Republicans say that he shouldn't close the border or that he's not allowed.

Oh the hypocrisy!

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 31 points 5 months ago (2 children)

America should just tear down the Statue of Liberty for scrap metal at this point.

[–] muse@fedia.io 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Somebody should deal with that, but who you gonna call?

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean...not the Ghostbusters. They're the ones that brought it to life.

Well I guess we're gonna have to take control

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

Lady Liberty represents an ideal that America should strive for. And even now, with all the shite we're going through, we're a lot closer to that ideal now than we were when she was first erected.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago (5 children)

People always want to say if you don't like Biden, it makes you a single issue voter...

But he just keeps racking up so many ways he doesn't represent the will of Dem voters.

We barely won 2020, we won't win 2024 with a candidate who does shit like this.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

He doesn't have any choice. Congress controls immigration policies, and the infrastructure that's in place to handle them is not equipped to handle the current numbers.

The GOP is going to kill any immigration policy changes that the democrats put forth, so it's shut down the border or let the system collapse. Neither are good options.

[–] blazera@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I cant wait for dems to rally for a border wall

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We barely won 2020, we won’t win 2024 with a candidate who does shit like this.

With Democrats like these, who needs Republicans?

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Would be nice if we had more than just 2 conservative parties in power

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 5 months ago

If we try our hardest and make electoral change, someday we might be able to have 3

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

Whatcha doing about it?

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

What do you suggest he do with the migrants that exceed our sanctuary cities’ housing abilities? Leave them homeless after busing? Welcome to NY. Pick an alley.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Ah, ignorance. There is no choice with the current Congress.

[–] ech@lemm.ee -2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You're either misinterpreting the criticism or talking to people that don't know wtf they're talking about. Neither mean single issue dems aren't a problem.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Single issue voters don't really exist.

No one cares about a single thing in their own country and nothing else.

But what often happens with large protests, specific about civil/human rights, is when a lot of people unite under one cause, others try to divide them.

Because when people unify around one thing, they tend to work together on the next thing.

If you're not careful, before you know it progress is happening...

And a lot of very rich people don't like progress

[–] ech@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

They absolutely do exist. The GOP built their base on cobbling those voters together into one force. As long as they make empty gestures to their variety of issues, their SIVs keep in line no matter what other horrid shit they do. It's taken a much more sinister bent, lately, but the core is still there.

Dems have the reverse issue - voters declaring they won't support them if they don't address one issue, with the biggest and latest being the invasion of Palestine. There are absolutely voters out there that will ignore the rest of the good things done by their candidate, or worse, ignore how things will just get worse without them, all because of one little grievance. Dems have always had a bit of a purity test problem, but it's multiplied into a much bigger problem this cycle.

And all this said, I'm not dismissing your point that division is a serious issue, but not working together because of these singular issues is a big part of the problem.

[–] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Is he really trying that hard to kick it's constituents in the balls? The dude is hated enough already for supporting Israel, and now assylum seekers?

Is he trying to compete with Trump?

Maybe he wants us to vote him out so he can actually retire... I mean, he didn't seem to want the nomination to begin with due to how long he thought about it.

[–] heavy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't know why our stupid ass congress and judicial system gets a pass on all these issues everyone is so passionate about. I'm not really a Biden fan but what do you want the man to do? Run a gulag? Trump started caging kids and we hated that, so what's the magical solution that exists outside of our legislative branch?

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

It would be real nice if he used the bully pulpit.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago
[–] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
[–] zabadoh@ani.social 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not yet. More like the continued flow of refugees from the climate-related collapse of agriculture in Central America, and the resulting criminal gang takeover of the countryside there.

https://www.wfpusa.org/countries/dry-corridor/

https://reliefweb.int/report/guatemala/climate-extremes-food-insecurity-and-migration-central-america-complicated-nexus

The US is partly responsible for advancing Central American gang culture, by inducting disorganized immigrant gangs into organized violent gang culture by putting them alongside US domestic gangs in prison, then deporting them.

The other major part is the flow of money from Mexican drug cartels to ensure drug transportation corridors, which of course, is largely funded by sheer size of the US drug market.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/complexities-gang-membership-central-america

Day Zero when Mexico City runs out of water is expected near the end of June, unless they get some rain.

[–] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Isn't this illegal?

[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There is that good ol liberal harm reduction, which is doublespeak for throwing a group under the bus to maintain comfort. Biden not being to stand for nothing will lead to him losing. Trump cultists are at least delusional enough to believe he cares about their interests. This is the most dangerous way to go about stopping fascism.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Biden doesn't control immigration policy or funding, congress does. If you want to blame someone, blame the GOP who will torpedo any reform policy.

The current system isn't capable of handling the current number of asylum seekers, so it's either close the border or let people start dying here.

[–] blazera@lemmy.world -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Youre saying Biden doesnt control immigration policy.

On a post about Biden single handedly closing the entire Mexican border.

That's all he can do. I thought that point was clear.

[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world -5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There is always an excuse for how powerless Biden is on issues, yet he is the man standing between full-blown fascism and democracy is a joke.

That's because Biden actually acknowledges the restrictions of the presidency, while Trump has promised to go full dictator on day 1