more border patrol agents, more asylum officers, morejudges but republicans have left me no choice. conor o callaghan is a democrat running for congress in arizona and also a former resident on the texas border. i asked him how much he thinks politics played a part in biden s action on the border. i don t think it s a political decision at all. i actually think in a lot of respects, it s sort of a sad day for our country and a sad day for our system that the president, as he said, had to go it alone on this issue. so i don t think it s political. i don t think this is a democratic party problem. i don t think it s a republican party problem. this is an american problem. we ve had issues at the border for the better part of two decades. and in those two decades, we ve had three really solid attempts at bipartisan immigration reform. and every single time, the republican party has blocked those efforts. so as the president himself said, he had no choice but to go it alone on this. and
us presidentjoe biden has announced sweeping new measures aimed at deterring migrants from crossing into the united states from mexico. he said the executive action was necessary to regain control of the border and blamed republicans for the collapse of a bipartisan deal. the us president has come under intense pressure to tighten border controls ahead of november s presidential election. the order will ban migrants who enter illegally from claiming asylum when border encounters surpass 2,500 per day and make it easier to deport them to mexico. that means the president s order should go into effect immediately. so today, i m moving past republican obstruction and using the executive authorities available to me as president to do what i can on my own to address the border. frankly, i would have preferred to address this issue through bipartisan legislation, because that s the only way to actually get the kind of system we have now that s broken fixed to hire
and that s how i think you re going to see the numbers start to recede, get below that 1,500 threshold, and then we can get back to some sort of normalcy instead of having a constant state of crisis at the border. well, there are members of the democratic party that aren t too pleased with this executive order. democratic congressman pramila jayapal says, i m profoundly disappointed, and calls biden s action a step in the wrong direction. now, it s worth mentioning that she is on the subcommittee for immigration, integrity, integrity, security and enforcement. she s the ranking member on that committee. this is a problem for biden. is this is a problem for biden? i don t think it s a problem for biden. i think it s a complicated situation. and i empathise with congresswoman jayapal s view. i m an immigrant. my wife s an immigrant. this is a country that was built on immigrants. so we need a good, robust immigration system here. there s no question about it. but we have unfortunate
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Texas could not begin arresting and deporting migrants under Senate Bill 4 as a legal battle continues.