Joe Biden made news this week when he reveled in a pre-recorded interview with Univision that he may soon issue an executive order aimed at limiting the number of asylum seekers who can remain in the United States legally after crossing the southern border. Or, rather, that would have been a newsworthy revelation had the White House not spent the last two months telegraphing Biden’s intention to do just that — an intent with which Biden never follows through.
As far back as the first week in February, not long after a Senate-brokered deal on enhanced border security collapsed, the Biden administration began telling reporters it may have to address the migrant crisis on its own terms through “executive action to deter illegal migration.” By early March, it became clear what form that executive action would take. As NBC News reported at the time, the president intended to “make it harder for migrants to pass initial screening for asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border and quickly deport recently arrived migrants who don’t meet the criteria.”
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