Biden expected to issue executive order by Tuesday to limit asylum rules at border

President Biden is expected to issue an executive order by Tuesday that would partially suspend asylum claim processing along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The executive order would reportedly allow U.S. immigration officials to deport migrants who enter the U.S. illegally without formally processing their asylum claims and giving them a court date.

CBS News reported that the expected executive order "would rely on a presidential authority known as 212(f), which gained infamy during the Trump administration" when it pursued a "travel ban" from certain majority Muslim countries. 

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., had previously said that the Biden Administration could slow the influx of migrants entering the U.S. over the border by issuing executive orders, noting that the president terminated many border actions that former President Trump had implemented through executive order to cut down on illegal immigration. 

Johnson was asked on Sunday for his opinion of Biden's expected executive order on asylum. 

“It’s too little too late now," he said. “He’s trying to desperately show the American people that he wants to address the issue that he himself created."

Johnson repeated that the House Republicans have "documented 64 specific actions" that Biden and Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at the Department of Homeland Security issued since 2021 that he said led to a crisis at the border.

"They did it intentionally; it’s had catastrophic effects upon our country that we’ll be living with for decades to come," Johnson said.