Biden's Executive Order For The Border
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🗓️ 4 June 2024
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Summary
President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order today that would severely limit the number of migrants who can claim asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. The details still aren’t totally clear, but reports say Biden’s order would cap asylum requests at an average of 2,500 a day.
In Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum is set to become the nation’s first female president. She won Sunday’s election in a landslide with roughly 60 percent of the vote. She’s also the hand-picked successor of the current president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Lorena Rios, a freelance journalist based in Monterrey, joins us to talk about Sheinbaum’s historic win and what it means for U.S.-Mexico relations.
And in headlines: Dr. Anthony Fauci sparred with House Republicans during a congressional hearing about the U.S. response to the pandemic, Israeli officials confirmed the deaths of four hostages in Gaza, and a Georgia court has tentatively set a date to hear former President Donald Trump’s appeal to kick Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis off his election interference case.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, June 4th. |
| 0:02.8 | I'm Josie Duffy Rice. |
| 0:04.1 | And I'm Travel Anderson, and this is what a day. |
| 0:07.1 | The show where we're feeling pretty jealous |
| 0:09.5 | of our neighbors to the South in Mexico |
| 0:11.8 | who just made history by electing their first woman |
| 0:14.5 | president Claudia Shane Baum in a landslide. Electing a woman president and she's |
| 0:20.6 | only 61 she's like basically a kid. |
| 0:22.6 | Listen, our presidential candidates looking really crusty and dusty right about now. |
| 0:28.0 | Ooh! |
| 0:31.0 | On today's show, Dr. Fauchy testifies before a testy Congress. Plus the Sandy Hook families want their money from Alex Jones. |
| 0:38.6 | But first, President Biden is expected to make a major move regarding immigration today. |
| 0:44.0 | Mayors from border towns have been invited to the White House for an event where the President |
| 0:48.4 | will sign an executive order that would severely limit asylum requests at the US-Mexico border temporarily. |
| 0:55.2 | Yeah, there's been speculation for months that Biden might do something like this, |
| 0:59.1 | especially after Senate Republicans blocked border legislation back in February. |
| 1:04.8 | So what do we actually know at this point ahead of the official announcement? |
| 1:09.0 | According to reports, they're saying that the executive order would basically impose a |
| 1:14.1 | numerical cap on asylum requests at the southern border. That cap will be a daily |
| 1:19.8 | average over the course of a week of 2,500. |
| 1:23.6 | Once requests hit 2,500, border crossings |
| 1:26.8 | will close to asylum seekers and only reopen |
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