Sen. Alex Padilla: Biden's Border Plan Is "Unconscionable"
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🗓️ 5 June 2024
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Summary
President Joe Biden signed an executive order that will severely limit the number of migrants who can claim asylum at the border. Flanked by high-profile Democrats at a press conference Tuesday, Biden said he was forced to act to address “a worldwide migrant crisis” amid Republican stonewalling on a bipartisan border bill. “Doing nothing is not an option. We have to act,” Biden said. But the president also came under significant criticism from others in the party, including California Sen. Alex Padilla. He explains why he thinks limiting asylum won’t work.
And in headlines: The New York Times reports that Ukrainian forces struck a Russian military facility using American-made military weapons, three Trump associates have been charged with forgery in Wisconsin for their connection in trying to overturn the 2020 election, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a third term in the country’s elections.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, June 5th. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Priyanka Aribindi. |
| 0:04.0 | And I'm Juanita Tolliver, and this is what a day, |
| 0:06.0 | the show where we have some questions about the $40,000 in government reimbursements |
| 0:11.0 | Representative Matt Gates asked for last year. |
| 0:13.6 | Yeah, very strategically used the program past last year that doesn't require any receipts. |
| 0:19.4 | Do you know what this company would be paying for if I could expense things with no receipts? |
| 0:25.4 | Matt Gates is bad, but I could spend more. |
| 0:27.4 | It's fine. |
| 0:28.0 | On today's show, Wisconsin is the latest state to bring charges against Trump |
| 0:35.0 | allies for trying to overturn the 2020 election. Plus, Ukraine launches strikes |
| 0:39.7 | into Russia using American-made weapons. |
| 0:42.7 | But first, as we previewed for you yesterday, |
| 0:45.0 | President Biden issued an executive order on Tuesday |
| 0:47.6 | to close the border when migrant crossings exceed |
| 0:50.3 | a seven-day average of 2,500 crossings per day. |
| 0:54.5 | Under the order, the border will remain closed |
| 0:57.1 | until the average number of crossings |
| 0:58.8 | drops to 1,500 per day. |
| 1:01.5 | Take a listen to Biden as he unveiled the plan at a press conference. |
| 1:04.4 | To protect America as a land that welcomes immigrants, we must first secure the |
| 1:09.0 | border and secure it now. The simple truth is there is a worldwide migrant crisis and if the |
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