The situation on the Mexican border is one of the most significant election issues in this year’s presidential elections.
President of the United States Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday that would give him the authority to temporarily close the country’s southern border to asylum seekers. The president could close the Mexican border in a situation where the daily number of asylum seekers arriving in the United States rises above 2,500, writes the Guardian.
Biden has come under a lot of pressure because of the country’s border situation, as the topic is one of the most significant election issues in this year’s presidential elections. According to opinion polls, immigration is a bigger concern among voters than, for example, inflation or the economy. This is also the opinion of an increasingly large number of supporters of Biden’s own party, the Democrats.
According to a recent survey by the news agency AP, two out of three voters are dissatisfied with Biden’s border policy. As many as 40 percent of Democrats think so.
of CBS according to Biden’s executive order, US border officials could quickly deport people who entered the country illegally without processing their asylum applications.
This is a significant change of course in the Democratic president’s border policy. When Donald Trump made a very similar border decision in 2018, Biden sharply criticized the Republican president.
It is almost certain that Biden’s decision will be challenged in court – the same happened to Trump in the past.
The number of people trying to cross the Mexican border into the United States has decreased in recent months. According to the immigration authorities, almost 180,000 people applied for asylum with money in April. In December, more than 300,000 immigrants sought to enter the United States in one month, more than ever before in the history of measurement.