President Joe Biden stated in an interview with Univision that the White House is “examining” whether he has the authority to formally close the borders and that while” some people have suggested I should just go ahead and test it, and if I get shut down by the court, I get shut down by the court,”” we’re trying to work through that proper now.”
Interviewer Enrique Acevedo asked,” Have you made a final choice on taking executive]action], in terms of what you want to do at the border, that includes the authority to shut down the frontier, as it was suggested”?
Biden answered,” We’re examining whether or not I have that power. Because you ca n’t manage it, you ca n’t control it, so I would have that power under the law when the border has more than 5, 000 people trying to cross it every day. There’s no guarantee that I have that strength all by myself without policy. And some people have suggested that I should just go ahead and test it, and that we are working through that at the moment if the court shuts me down, too.
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