The new policy could shut off asylum requests and automatically deny entrance to migrants once the number of people encountered by U.S. border officials exceeded a new daily threshold.
Roughly two-thirds of Americans now disapprove of how Biden is handling border security, including about 4 in 10 Democrats.
He was ‘not buying into’ the argument that only criminals are coming across the border, calling the ‘vast majority’ of the migrants who enter the U.S. without permission otherwise law-abiding people.
‘I’ll be taking this issue to the country, and the voters are going to know that just at the moment we were going to secure the border and fund these other programs, the MAGA Republicans said ‘no’ because they’re afraid of Donald Trump.’
Civil rights organizations have already sued to stop the new law signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, calling it an unconstitutional overreach that encroaches on the U.S. government’s immigration authority.
Chief Justice Roberts granted a stay pending further order and asked the government to respond by 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Just a couple blocks across the border, sleet fell in El Paso as about 80 huddled migrants ate tacos that volunteers grilled up.
Under a Trump policy, about 70,000 asylum-seekers were forced to wait in Mexico for U.S. hearings.
