I'm Brian Gotstein and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Tuesday, June 4th.

Here are today's headlines. President Joe Biden signed an executive order today that would shut down asylum requests and allow

for turning people away at the border once the number of illegal aliens trying to cross

at official ports of entry reaches an average of 2,500 a day.

According to NBC News, the order will kick in immediately because the number of illegal

aliens trying to cross already exceeds that number. The border will reopen when the daily number

of encounters drops below 1500 people. According to NBC, a senior administration official

said that individuals who cross the southern border

unlawfully or without authorization will generally be ineligible for asylum, absent

exceptionally compelling circumstances. The executive order includes

exceptions like if the asylum seeker has an acute injury. Republican

senators at a press conference on Tuesday said that the move was no more than a political ploy

to obscure the fact that over 8 million illegal aliens have entered the country since

Biden became president.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz questioned the timing of the

move saying, when he signs this executive order the only question anyone should ask is,

why didn't you do this in 2021? Why didn't you do this in 2022? Why didn't you do this in

2023? Why didn't you do this last month or the month before or the month before?

How many dead bodies is enough? Another Texas

Republican senator John Cornyn questioned whether the Biden

administration is actually going to enforce the order. He said that Biden has issued 94 executive orders since he's

been president of the United States, but he's waited until today to actually do

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