President Joe Biden Is ‘Examining Whether Or Not’ He Has Power To Shut Down The Border
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden highlighted the potential need for congressional action regarding the current state of the Mexico border.
According to his administration, they are currently evaluating the matter should it become necessary.
"We're examining whether or not I have that power," Biden, 81, told Enrique Acevedo in an interview with Univision. "When the border has over...5,000 people a day trying to cross the border because you can't manage it, slow it up."
"There's no guarantee that I have that power all by myself without legislation. And some have suggested I should just go ahead and try it. And if I get shut down by the court, I get shut down by the court," he explained. "But we're trying to...work through that right now."
According to The Hill, this update comes after the most recent bipartisan bill regarding funding for border security was blocked by senate Republicans.
News broke that the Biden administration flew in 320,000 illegal immigrants into the U.S., allowing them into 43 different airports, according to a report made public earlier this year.
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"Thanks to an ongoing Center for Immigration Studies Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, the public now knows that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has approved secretive flights that last year alone ferried hundreds of thousands of inadmissible aliens from foreign airports into some 43 American ones over the past year, all pre-approved on a cell phone app," Todd Bensman wrote in a report for the Center for Immigration Studies.
The strategy announced by the White House on Jan. 5, enacts new measures to "encourage individuals to seek orderly and lawful pathways to migration."
