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President Biden's border challenges

1 big thing

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🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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President Joe Biden has vowed to reverse many of the immigration policies put in place by his predecessor. It’s a process that could take months or even years, but he’s starting with a number of executive orders expected today. Plus, is it constitutional to impeach a former President? And, the ominous sign when a country cuts its people off from the Internet. Guests: Axios' Stef Kight and Dave Lawler, and Noah Feldman, Harvard Law professor and host of Deep Background. Credits: "Axios Today" is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Dan Bobkoff, Carol Wu, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Naomi Shavin and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. Go deeper: Biden's brewing child migrant crisis Scoop: Fees — not just strategy — blew up Trump's legal team 1 big thing: The coup will take place offline Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Tuesday, February 2nd. I'm Naila Boodoo. Here's how we're making

0:10.1

you smarter today. Is it constitutional to impeach a former president?

0:14.2

Plus the ominous sign when a country cuts its people off from the internet. But first,

0:20.0

today's one big thing, President Biden's border challenges.

0:25.0

President Joe Biden has vowed to reverse many of the immigration policies put in place by his predecessor.

0:33.7

It's a process that could take months or even years but he's starting with a number of

0:37.9

executive orders that are expected today.

0:39.7

Steph Kite covers immigration at Axios and is here to fill us in on Biden's plan.

0:45.0

Staff, President Biden's facing a huge crisis at the border, which is largely caused by asylum

0:50.1

seekers from Central America.

0:52.1

Are we expecting an executive order around this?

0:55.4

We're certainly going to see some executive actions today and throughout the week to address

1:00.5

asylum and refugee policies in the US.

1:03.2

One of the most notable ones was the migration protection protocols,

1:06.4

which most people know as remain in Mexico policy.

1:09.6

And that's one of the things we're definitely expecting

1:11.6

Joe Biden to end.

1:14.0

Joe Biden is trying to undo Donald Trump's policies, but at the same time, now we're looking

1:19.0

at, for example, the number of unaccompanied minors at the border rising rising and now there's a pandemic.

1:25.0

So how is the Biden administration planning to handle this looming crisis of children at the border?

1:31.0

We are starting to see the number of children crossing the border without their parents start to tick

1:36.1

up.

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