I'm Virginia Allen and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Thursday, April 11th.

Here are today's headlines. President Joe Biden says he may take executive action on the southern border.

The president sat down for an interview with the news outlet Univision.

And during that interview, Biden was asked if he would make a final decision soon

on taking executive action on the border including using executive action to

shut down the southern border here's what he had to say.

We're examining whether or not I have that power. I would have that power under the

legislation when the border has over five hundred000 people, 5,000 people a day trying to cross the border because you can't manage, just slow it up.

There's no guarantee that I have that power all by myself without legislation.

Now when Biden said there that he would have the power under the legislation, he was referring to the border bill that failed in the Senate in

February.

That bill was a hundred and eighteen billion dollar spending bill that also included some measures

related to the border,

but would have allowed 5,000 illegal aliens

to cross the southern border every single day.

Biden went on to say that he is not sure if he has the power to take executive action on the border or not.

There's no guarantee that I have that power all by myself without legislation.

And some would suggest that I should just go ahead and try it.

And if I get shut down by the court, I get shut down by the court.

But we're trying to work that work through that right now.

If Biden does issue a border-related executive order,

he will be using the power that is available to him in the Immigration and Nationality Act,

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