Joe Biden Plans a Trip to the U.S.-Mexico Border

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Amid political pressure and a pending Supreme Court case on Title 42, Joe Biden is going to El Paso and tweaking America's immigration policies, but will this be enough to stop the crisis at the border? Plus, Kevin McCarthy still isn't Speaker of the House after 13 ballots, but the momentum has turned his way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tech is all around us.
0:02.0	It's always updating, competing for your attention.
0:06.0	Cut through the digital clutter, with the Wall Street Journal's tech news briefing,
0:11.0	the biggest tech stories and scoops from our reporting every weekday.
0:19.0	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:24.0	President Biden schedules a trip to the US-Mexico border,
0:29.0	while giving a speech about the end of Title 42,
0:32.0	as House Republicans fail in electing a new speaker for the 13th time.
0:36.0	Welcome, Kyle Peterson, with the Wall Street Journal.
0:39.0	We are joined today by my colleagues, columnists Alicia Finley and Kim Strassel.
0:45.0	President Biden this weekend will be at the border in El Paso,
0:49.0	he says assessing enforcement operations,
0:52.0	meeting with local officials,
0:54.0	and on Thursday he gave a speech announcing what he called several steps to stiffen enforcement,
0:59.0	as well as an expanded parole program.
1:02.0	If you're trying to leave Cuba, Nicaragua, or Haiti, and we have a breed to begin a journey to America,
1:10.0	do not just show up at the border.
1:14.0	Stay where you are and apply legally from there.
1:17.0	Starting today, if you don't apply through the legal process,
1:20.0	you will not be eligible for this new parole program.
1:23.0	Alicia, can you give us a sense of what the Biden administration is actually planning to do here?
1:28.0	And do you suspect that it will make a huge difference in the flows at the border?
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