President Biden is in Mexico for the first visit by an American president in nearly 10 years. It comes on the heels of his first trip to the southern border and new changes to U.S. immigration policy. CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jian
Mr. Biden made the policy changes through a presidential proclamation that temporarily suspends the entry of most migrants at the southern border. The Departments of Justice and Homeland Securitypublished a regulationto implement his directive. "I must exercise my executive authorities to meet the mome...
Joe Biden is playing voters for suckers. He thinks he can snap up their votes with some sleight-of-hand new policy on the southern border. This all comes cynically as the border is emerging as a major issue in the campaign for president; only 28 percent of voters approve of Biden’s ha...
Trouble at the border As the U.S. economy improved, there was a sharp increase inillegal crossingson the U.S. border with Mexico. The increase in unauthorized immigrants overwhelmed many states and cities while the Biden administration haggled with Congress over how to add ...
As the U.S. economy improved, there was a sharp increase in illegal crossings on the U.S. border with Mexico. The increase in unauthorized immigrants overwhelmed many states and cities while the Biden administration haggled with Congress over how to add more resources for border security...
Facing such headwinds, Biden officials worked with senators to negotiate the bipartisan proposal that would beef up immigration review teams, add Border Patrol agents, establish new emergency powers and changes to the asylum system. After the measure was rejected by ...
Transition officials said the changes in immigration policy changes — especially along the U.S.-Mexico border — will take time, given the ongoing pandemic.
Mr. Biden's partial asylum ban included a deactivation trigger, in which the policy would be discontinued if the seven-day average of daily illegal border crossings fell below 1,500. Under the proposed changes, the asylum restrictions would only be deactivated if the seven-day average of unlawf...
Biden and Trump toured the border and delivered nearly simultaneous remarks about 300 miles apart in South Texas Thursday. “So here’s what I would say to Mr. Trump,” Biden said during his remarks in Brownsville. “Set a planned policy position instead of telling members of Congress to blo...
President Joe Biden is expected to announce a new policy that would allow him to close the southern border between certain points of entry — effectively mirroring a provision in the Senate's bipartisan border bill that has already infuriated progressives. That step, confirmed by a half-dozen pe...