Still, the move shows how drastically the politics of immigration have shifted to the right in the United States. Polls suggest there is support in both parties for border measures once denounced by Democrats and championed by Mr. Trump as the number of people crossing into the country has reached record levels in recent years.

Assuming the policy survives any court challenges, the restrictions kick in once the seven-day average for illegal crossings hits 2,500 per day. Recent daily totals have already exceeded that number, so Mr. Biden’s executive order can go into effect at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday, at which point border officers can return migrants across the border into Mexico or to their home countries within hours or days.

Typically, migrants who cross illegally and claim asylum are released into the United States to wait for court appearances, where they can plead their cases. But a huge backlog means those cases can take years to come up.

The new system is designed to deter those illegal crossings.

The border would reopen to asylum seekers only when the number of crossings falls significantly. The figure would have to stay below a daily average of 1,500 for seven days in a row. The border would reopen to migrants two weeks after that.


The American Civil Liberties Union said it planned to challenge the executive action in court.

“The administration has left us little choice but to sue,” said Lee Gelernt, a lawyer at the A.C.L.U, which led the charge against the Trump administration’s attempt to block asylum in 2018 and resulted in the policy being stopped by federal courts. “It was unlawful under Trump and is no less illegal now.”

There would be limited exceptions to the restrictions announced Tuesday, including for minors who cross the border alone, victims of human trafficking and those who use a Customs and Border Protection app to schedule an appointment with a border officer to request asylum.

But for the most part, the order suspends longtime guarantees that give anyone who steps onto U.S. soil the right to seek a safe haven.

The executive action mirrors the legislation that Republicans blocked in February, saying it was not strong enough. Many of them, egged on by Mr. Trump, were loath to give Mr. Biden a legislative victory in an election year.

“Donald Trump begged them to vote ‘no’ because he was worried that more border enforcement would hurt him politically,” Andrew Bates, a White House spokesman, said in a statement on Tuesday. He added: “The American people want bipartisan solutions to border security — not cynical politics.”

Immigration advocates and some progressive Democrats have expressed concern that Mr. Biden was abandoning his promise to rebuild the asylum system.

“By reviving Trump’s asylum ban, President Biden has undermined American values and abandoned our nation’s obligations to provide people fleeing persecution, violence, and authoritarianism with an opportunity to seek refuge in the U.S.,” said Senator Alex Padilla, Democrat of California.

Mr. Biden said that those who believe his latest restrictions are too strict should be “patient.” He said in the coming weeks he would speak about “how we can make our immigration system more fair and more just.”

Tuesday’s decision is a stark turnaround for Mr. Biden, who came into office attacking Mr. Trump for his efforts to restrict asylum. During a 2019 debate, Mr. Biden, then a candidate running against Mr. Trump for the first time, excoriated his rival’s policies.

“This is the first president in the history of the United States of America that anybody seeking asylum has to do it in another country,” Mr. Biden said at the time.

Mr. Trump tried several times to close the U.S. border to asylum seekers, succeeding only in 2020 when he used a Covid-era emergency rule to seal the border to most migrants.

In a call with reporters, Biden administration officials bristled at the idea that the president’s executive order was comparable to Mr. Trump’s actions. They emphasized that Mr. Biden’s administration would only turn away asylum seekers in times of surging crossings.

Immigration has proved to be a huge political vulnerability for Mr. Biden, reaching a crisis in December, when about 10,000 people a day were making their way into the United States.

Biden administration officials, panicked over those numbers, pressed Mexico to do more to curb migration. Mexican officials have since used charter flights and buses to move migrants deeper south and away from the United States.

The number of people crossing has plunged since then, though the numbers are still historically high. On Sunday, more than 3,500 people crossed without authorization, in line with the trends of recent weeks, according to a person with knowledge of the data.

Even with the executive order in place, migrants could still apply for other protections designed for those who can prove they will be tortured in their home country. But that screening has a much higher bar than asylum and as a result, administration officials said they do not expect many migrants to be screened into the United States.

People who cross illegally and do not qualify for those other protections would be subject to a five-year prohibition on entering the United States.

White House officials believe the order provides Mr. Biden an opportunity to take Republicans to task for dooming the bipartisan bill. That legislation also would have provided billions to the Homeland Security Department for more border officers and immigration judges.

Mr. Biden cannot provide those resources through executive action. White House officials for weeks said they preferred legislation over presidential proclamation because it would be more lasting and less exposed to a court challenge.

The order also comes with some political risks. Republicans have questioned why Mr. Biden did not take unilateral action at the border sooner. In January, he told reporters that he had “done all I can do” at the border and that he needed help from Congress.

“It’s window dressing; everybody knows it,” Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, said of the president’s order at a news conference Tuesday morning. “If he was concerned about the border, he would have done this a long time ago.”

As Mr. Biden considered whether to take executive action in recent months, his administration has taken smaller steps to try to control those backlogs.

In May, the administration proposed a rule change that would allow officers to quickly identify people who are ineligible for asylum, such as those who have been convicted of serious crimes. Currently, they may be allowed to enter the country and wait months, or often years, for asylum proceedings. The proposal must go through a 30-day public comment period.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services also issued a new policy in May instructing asylum officers to consider whether applicants could find refuge in their own countries before coming to the United States.
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too little too late. he is just trying to make it look like he is doing something after 2021-2024 have had record numbers of illegals. the EO has no deportations, no camps to put the illegals, no hangings for those helping the illegal, no deporting the daca faggots and no going door to door and dragging the illegals out of homes like the filth they are

>>1301549
> after 2021-2024 have had record numbers of illegals.
There was a pandemic you moron

>>1301549
it's funny because you're a brown shill

>>1301549
Senate republicans blocked the border security bill proposed.

>>1301550
how does coof cause more illegals to come in?
>>1301551
unlike you and obongo I am white and American

>>1301554
Not all of them, just the ones constantly suckling on Trump's mushroom

>>1301554
because the bill was shit and full of half measures and didn't have shit like deportations, camps to put the illegals, hangings for those helping the illegal, deporting the daca faggots, razor wire and landmines at the border, making it legal for land owners to shoot illegals on sight and going door to door and dragging the illegals out of homes like the filth they are

>>1301555
you are a shill who doesn't seem able to break script

>>1301555
>how does coof cause more illegals to come in?
There was a huge backlog from the 18 months under Title42 where absolutely no one was allowed to cross the border

>>1301556
>no it is bipartisan, RINO mitt romney liked it
>>1301558
only shill here is you, faggot. no actual American likes brandon or the dems

>>1301559
sounds like we need to reinstate title 42. also how does title 42 prevent illegal entry into the US but brandon can't do it? sounds like we should put title 42 back up and then napalm the border

>>1301560
Mitt Romney is a real republican, you fascist Trump cultists are the RINOs

>>1301562
mitt romney is an actual communist and works for the CCP

>>1301561
>we
Who are you talking about? you and the other far right extremists?

>>1301564
nah, I am a center left moderate and I am saying the US. I am an American citizen unlike you. I have an American birth certificate unlike you and obongo and romney

>>1301541
Dam gurl, your parents must have dropped you as a kid because you sure are special. <3

>>1301565
>I'm a center left moderate
HA! Sure you are chuddie, and I'm Jimmy Carter.

>>1301541
The election season astroturfing is so tiring. Nobody likes the old guy. The constant Bidenposting is cancer, just like the clotshot.

>>1301568
jimmy carter is a chinese communist and you are a jewish tranny

>>1301571
i think you need to tone down your fake outrage, it's just silly at this point

>>1301570
Good /pol/-tier opinion

>>1301572
He's harvesting (You)s again. It's his sole remaining purpose in life.

Its like stopping crime by making it legal... Oh.. wait a sec...

>>1301572
nah, my antisemitism and anticommunism is earnest
>>1301575
samefaggot

>>1301583
You have a serious mental illness.

>>1301584
notice how not once have the commies in this thread argued the EO was good. they just blamed trump and the fake scamdemic for brandon opening the borders and then started saying insults. tells you all you need to know about how shitty brandon is

>>1301583
what do you get out of polluting this board other than negative attention

>>1301586
the ones polluting this board are the commies and jews and indians

>>1301541
It's time to vote for Democracy, so...bring out your dead, bring out your dead, the deceased have rights too...

So what your saying is Biden had the power to do this the entire fucking time and the legislation was literally just made by democrats to peddle a false narrative to the public for PR purposes?

Wow, literally nobody saw this coming

>>1301592
legislation is how you're supposed to enact laws in this country

If Trump's policies were so effective, why was there a surge of illegal immigration in 2019?

>>1301592
James Lankford (R-Oklahoma) is a democrat now.

>>1301593
Well nobody is enacting a law, and this makes your entire argument moot, doesn't it, faggot?

>>1301596
legislation is still how you're supposed to enact laws even if you sabotage the process

>>1301598
It makes it even funnier when the Trump simps in the Senate tried to say they weren't going to participate "from now on" in protest of Trump's conviction.

>>1301541
Coincidentally as election season is upon us. These people really are the literal spawn of Satan, knowing they can get away with doing nothing but then acting like it's important when election time comes. The guy flew in thousands of illegals, he doesn't give a fuck.

The guy is human excrement and should be flushed like one.

>>1301549
>I don't like this bill because there isn't enough mass murder in it
Typical conservative, everyone

>>1301601
killing an invasive spices isnt murder

>>1301605
your descendants are going to be brown anyway

>>1301607
you and I both know he has no chance of reproducing

>>1301608
samefag
>>1301607
nah, keep coping moshie

Never forget that every time Biden tried to enact border protection legislation, Republicans blocked it. The Republican party is only about fear and hatred and never about fixing pjvr4groblems.

>>1301859
Yeah it sure is weird how the only thing Republicans and Democrats can agree on is signing antisemitism bills.

>>1301859
Because he had the power to block people at the border without 100s of pages of pork.
I would have voted against it too.

>>1301860
To be fair, Republicans did agree on the immigration bill until Trump told them that he wanted to keep immigration bad so he could run on it. It actually reflects worse on the GOP's morality that they fully acknowledge something is an issue but decide not to do anything about it because things being shittier in the country looks better for Trump.

>>1301863
but it was the 100s of pages of pork that finally got the Republicans to sign it. That is the only reason it passed.
I get that you have alternate facts and rewritten history on a daily basis due to Trump's four years in office, but the rest of us have facts to work with.

>>1301864
McConnell said the same thing. He openly stated that he would vote against anything that made Biden look good even if it was something her personally supported.
This is old news. Gingrich got the ball rolling under Clinton. Every GOP House Speaker or Senate ML has done the same thing with legislation their party supported, just to make the Dem president look bad. It's been party policy since Nixon.

>>1301863
>>1301902
Notice how rightards have no clue what is actually in the bill they disagree with so they just repeat the "100s of pages of pork" talking point so nobody will notice they don't know what they're talking about?

>>1301922
The bill was legit shit and unnecessary. This article proves it.
It was made as a propaganda hit piece by Democrats, as this article clearly proves it was never needed at all for what democrats claimed they wanted to do.

>>1302004
>The bill was legit shit and unnecessary.
Thanks for proving the point - you don't actually know what was in the bill and you can't articulate a single thing about it you disagree with. You can only vaguely elude at it being bad but you you can't explain why.

>>1301594
the facts Trumpites don't want you to hear.

>>1301594
It's hard to have an effective policy when Democrats sue and tie it up in court for years. If immigrants are so great, why do Democrats cry when they get bussed into their sanctuary cities?

>>1302076
>It's hard to have an effective policy when Democrats sue and tie it up in court for years.
Trump's executive orders were not "policy" - they were an administrative half-measure for a leader who was incapable of bipartisan negotiation. This is why he didn't even bother drafting any of the "policy" he promised. No repeal and replace of Obamacare, no infrastructure, no medicare or medicaid reform. He didn't even develop it far enough for the Democrats to challenge in court.

>If immigrants are so great, why do Democrats cry when they get bussed into their sanctuary cities?
That's like asking, "If water is so good then why don't you want to drink 6 gallons of it in one sitting?". Its a retarded way to engage with the concept. Immigration is generally economically good. A LOT of immigration, particularly to incredibly over-populated and expensive cities like New York can be really bad. Its super contextual. There is no universal black and white "immigration good" or "immigration bad". Whether or not its good or bad depends on a lot of different factors and even then things that are good for one market can be bad for another. A surge of immigration may be "good" for the construction market by providing tons of labor but "bad" for housing markets depending on the area and availability. Its not a zero sum game.

>>1301549
I prefer illegal immigrants over Magacultists. Sorry.

>>1302091
so we should send all the illegals to your town.

>>1302130
>we
Abbott would deport you too, Ivan

>>1302138
nah, unlike you and obongo I'm American

>>1302139
I doubt it, you can't even spell Obama right

>>1302141
obongo is his legal name

>>1302130
I don't have a problem with that. We should send all the dumb, redneck Magacultists to your town.

>>1302272
>send Americans who have jobs and don't do crimes to my town
why would I be mad about this?

>>1302294
>who have jobs and don't do crimes
Source on this?

>>1302328
They voted for trump instead of biden

>>1302343
So they're unemployed retards, got it.

>>1302384
no, that would be biden supporters who are unemployed retards

>>1301562
Mitt is a Bush and Mccain loyalisylts aka the jacksonian democrats that hailed from the CIA shadow hand. These types are snakes, they snither from party to party and are loyal to their gay frat bros from The ivy leagues.

See project for a new american century where faux intelligensia thought peak oil was coming in 2010