incident to police. that does it for us this hour. our coverage continues with katy tur reports, right now. good to be with you. i m katy tur. what is president biden hoping to get out of today s executive order allowing him to seal the southern border? he made the announcement just a few minutes ago saying the influx of migrants is unsustainable. quote, for those who say the steps i ve taken are too strict, i say to you be patient. the goodwill of the american public is wearing thin right now. doing nothing is not an option. we have to act. he also said that without immigration reform, specifically the immigration bill which was crafted by a bipartisan team of senators and leaned conservative, by the way, signing an executive order was his only remaining option. that order is definitely going to go to the courts. the aclu has already said it plans on suing. and a number of progressive lawmakers including the congressional hispanic caucus are crying foul, saying this isn
so, here s to now. boost. all right. let s talk to a red state lawmaker about president biden s executive order on immigration. joining us now i m sorry, first we re going to go to the reporting. joining us now from san ysidro, california is nbc news national correspondent david noriega. david, i was jumping the gun there. i m so sorry. i want to get some reporting from the ground. talk to me about what you re seeing at that border site in particular. is the are the daily numbers as high as they have been? reporter: so the short answer is yes. the numbers have been higher in the san diego sector actually than they were a year ago, higher even than they were in december. that s just for this sector. borderwide they re down substantially from the record highs of december. katy, the main thing i ve been learning in just the last couple of hours is there s a pretty big difference between what this executive order looks like on paper and what biden and other democrats are using it t
a political issue. and it is pretty clear which direction he s choosing to go. it is crystal clear. mike pence is going to the border. we say it is a political issue. i don t know we can question whether or not the president believes in this, he s been talking about it for years and years and years, clearly a belief, a belief he wants to highlight now in a political way. the fact though, you brought this up before, we were looking into it, it is about 350 migrants seek asylum at this border site every week. it is 150 in this group, that s like three days worth. it isn t exactly, you know, consummate with the amount of attention it might be getting now. i think that s exactly why this has turned into a potent political issue. this was a caravan of migrants that intentionally attracted media attention, it was meant to galvanize the left and in doing so it galvanized the right. that s why the president is fixated on it. and i think it is something that is going to be a potent politica