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slash Wall Street. From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal

this is Potomac Watch.

President Biden issues an executive order that he says will close the border to migrants,

but is there lessier than meets the eye And will it be enough to contain the political damage

of three years of border crisis

as the White House eyes the November election?

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by my colleagues

Alicia Finley and Jillian Melcher. On Tuesday the president moved at long last to

address one of his biggest political vulnerabilities citing provisions of the

Immigration and Nationality Act.

He issued an executive order that he says will close the border once the average of daily illegal crossings hits 2,500, which it seems

given recent trends would be immediately.

Let's listen to a piece of the president announcing this executive action.

I'm moving past Republican instruction and using the executive authorities available to me

as president to do what I can on my own to address the border.

Frankly, I would have preferred to... on my own to address the border.

Frankly, I would have preferred to address this issue through bipartisan legislation

because that's the only way to actually get the kind of system we have now that's broken fixed to hire more Border Patrol agents,

more asylum officers, more judges.

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