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Washington<\/strong>: President Joe Biden has issued a sweeping executive order aimed at curbing record migrant arrivals at the US-Mexico border that have left him politically vulnerable in an election year.<\/p>\n Under the order, which took effect at midnight, officials can quickly remove migrants entering the US illegally without processing their asylum requests. Rival Republicans say Mr Biden has not gone far enough, while some of the president\u2019s Democratic allies \u2013 and the United Nations \u2013 have expressed concern. Mr Biden spoke about the order at an event on Tuesday with several border town mayors. He said, \u201cthis action will help us gain control of our border\u201d.<\/p>\n The president criticised Republicans for not passing bipartisan immigration reform in Congress earlier this year \u2013 and asked left-wing critics of the new executive action to \u201cbe patient\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re wearing thin right now,\u201d he said. \u201cDoing nothing is not an option.\u201d<\/p>\n The order \u2013 which also aims to speed up cases and ease pressure on overburdened US immigration courts \u2013 has met criticism from activists.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that politics are driving the immigration conversation in an increasingly restrictive direction,\u201d said Jennie Murray, president and CEO of the National Immigration Forum.<\/p>\n More than 6.4 million migrants have been stopped crossing into the US illegally during Joe Biden\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n The arrival numbers have plummeted this year, though experts believe that trend is unlikely to continue.<\/p>\n Mexican media have depicted the move as one of Mr Biden\u2019s toughest policies, though President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador sought to downplay the issue, arguing that economic and cultural exchange made a border closure \u201cimpossible\u201d.<\/p>\n Authorities in Tijuana asked what would happen to asylum seekers denied entry to the US.<\/p>\n Shelters in the Mexican city could quickly get overcrowded, one local official warned. \u201cWe\u2019d start seeing people on the streets, sleeping in tents\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Washington: President Joe Biden has issued a sweeping executive order aimed at curbing record migrant arrivals at the US-Mexico border that have left him politically vulnerable in an election year. Under the order, which took effect at midnight, officials can quickly remove migrants entering the US illegally without processing their asylum requests.That will happen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Joe-Biden-says-Iran-to-attack-Israel-\u2018sooner-rather-than-later.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28551,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28549\/revisions\/28551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
That will happen once a daily threshold is met and the border is \u201coverwhelmed\u201d, the White House said in a statement.<\/p>\n
A spokeswoman for the UN\u2019s refugee agency said those fearing persecution should have access to safe territory.<\/p>\n
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