President Joe Biden is expected to issue a sweeping new executive order as early as Tuesday aimed at curbing the arrival of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
According to CBS, the planned order would allow U.S. officials to quickly expel immigrants who enter the country illegally without processing their asylum requests once daily thresholds are met.
This will allow border officials to limit the number of migrants arriving, said three anonymous sources who briefed the BBC's news partner CBS on the expected sequence.
More than 6.4 million immigrants have been stopped from entering the U.S. illegally during Joe Biden's administration. That's an all-time high that has left him politically vulnerable as he campaigns for his re-election.
But the number of migrant arrivals has plummeted this year, although experts believe the trend is unlikely to be sustainable.
The BBC's US partner CBS and other US news outlets have reported that Biden is considering using a 1952 law to limit access to the US asylum system.
The law, known as 212(f), allows the U.S. president to “suspend the entry” of aliens if their arrival is “harmful to the interests” of the country.
The Trump administration has sparked accusations of racism by banning immigration and travel from several Muslim-majority countries and using the same rules to bar immigrants from seeking asylum if they are caught crossing into the United States illegally.
