only when the average holds at 1,500 over a seven day period. it will then re open to migrants two weeks after that. the executive action also includes the use of a 1952 law allowing a us president to suspend the entry of foreigners if their arrival is detrimental to the interests of the country. speaking earlier, president biden blamed republicans in congress for refusing to address the situation at the us mexico border. 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 more border patrol agents, more asylum officers, morejudges but republicans have left me no choice. president biden is referring there to measures that were reflected in a bipartisan bill that he support
a seven day period. it will then re open to migrants two weeks after that. the executive action also includes the use of a 1952 law allowing a us president to suspend the entry of foreigners if their arrival is detrimental to the interests of the country. speaking earlier, president biden blamed republicans in congress for refusing to address the situation at the us mexico border. 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 more border patrol agents, more asylum officers, morejudges but republicans have left me no choice. president biden is referring there to measures that were reflected in a bipartisan bill that he supported back in may. but the legislation failed
after which she was named. and elsa, also newborn, was discovered this year, just a few hundred yards away. the three children are safe, adopted or in care, but the mother still has not come forward. the police say their investigation continues. you re live with bbc news. hunter biden s criminal trial is now under way. thejury heard opening statements from both sides. the us president s is accused of knowingly lying on a form to buy a gun in delaware. the us president s son. the prosecution described hunter biden as a habitual drug user, using audio excerpts from his autobiography where he talked about his constant hunt for drugs. but the defense argued he was in recovery at the time, so wasn t lying when he said on the application he was not a user of illegal drugs.our correspondent tom bateman sent this report from delaware
the first lady, jill biden, who was very close to hunter, in terms of sitting about a metre behind him. and the family talking to each other at various points during the proceedings. next up was mr biden s lawyer for the defence, abbe lowell, who set out to say that this case was all about what that form actually said. and the defence s argument is mr biden at the time didn t regard himself as a user of drugs and addicted to illegal drugs because they said he had been in a rehab clinic in california before that period. so when he ticked that box to say he wasn t a drug user, he meant that honestly. and they are asking for the jury, in that sense, to throw out all of these charges. after that, we ve been getting into the first witnesses in the case the first among those,
the police said their investigation continues. you re live with bbc news. hunter biden s criminal trial is now under way. thejury heard opening statements from both sides. the us president s son is accused of knowingly lying on a form to buy a gun in delaware. the prosecution described hunter biden as a habitual drug user, using audio excerpts from his autobiography where he talked about his constant hunt for drugs. but the defense argued he was in recovery at the time, so wasn t lying when he said on the application he was not a user of illegal drugs.our correspondent tom bateman sent this report from delaware the first opening statement was from federal prosecutor derek hines, and he set out to portray hunter biden as a self confessed habitual crack cocaine addict who lied in order to purchase a handgun here in wilmington, delaware in 2018. and what the prosecution alleges is that hunter biden