Amid the backdrop of a recent New York City shooting by an illegal migrant who wounded two NYPD officers, today President Joe Biden issued an executive order to address the ongoing migrant crisis.
Biden’s order will allow 2,500 border crossings per day before his restrictions would kick in. Migrants who express fear of returning to their home countries could still be allowed in, but those who don’t say they’re afraid to go home will be subject to immediate removal from the United States.
AP reports the last time the average daily arrests for illegal crossings from Mexico was below 2,500 was in January 2021, the month that Biden took office. The news organization says Biden’s move comes as “the White House tries to neutralize immigration as a political liability ahead of the November elections” after three years of a border crisis that has allowed millions of migrants to enter the U.S. illegally.
The executive order came right after a major new case of migrant violence unfolded in New York. Two NYPD officers were investigating ongoing cases of robbery in Queens when they encountered an illegal alien who shot them both. They have since been released from the hospital. One of them is
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