Joe Biden is planning executive action to clamp down on illegal crossings at southern border – despite claiming he needed help from Congress to do so

After previously saying he needed help from Congress to stem the flow of record-breaking illegal immigration along the US-Mexico border, Joe Biden’s administration is expected to issue an immigration-related executive order this week.

With illegal immigration being the top priority for voters across the country and millions of migrants entering the US illegally over the past 3.5 years, Biden and his team plan to do something about it as soon as Tuesday.

They previously asked Congress to pass new laws to expand Biden’s presidential authority over the border, but a bipartisan border deal failed to materialize earlier this year.

In May, the Senate again voted against the border measure, with both Democrats and Republicans uniting against it.

The plan has now been interviewed by the, according to several officials familiar with the matter Associated pressis to implement parts of the Senate deal unilaterally, including denying entry to migrants after certain thresholds are met.

The sources said the White House is specifically considering a policy that would limit encounters with migrants to 4,000 per day for a week — 28,000 in total.

But what would happen if that threshold is reached is unclear.

Similar policies were at the heart of the failed deal in the Senate, but Republicans blasted the measure for not doing enough to tackle illegal immigration, which Biden’s own Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas claimed there was a “crisis” in April.

According to the report, the authority the White House expected to use comes from Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

That law gives presidents leeway in blocking the entry of certain immigrants if doing so would be “harmful” to national interests.

Former President Trump repeatedly leaned on that part of the law to exclude certain immigrants who crossed the border illegally and sought asylum at the southern border.

Presidents who use Section 212(f) to restrict migration do not need congressional approval.

But Biden has repeatedly said he wants new laws from Congress to regulate the border.

Biden pushed for passage of the twice-rejected Senate bill, saying in January, “It would give me, as president, new emergency authority to close the border if it becomes overwhelmed.”

“And if I were given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill,” his January statement continued.

But it appears the White House has since decided they can go it alone, as Republicans have argued, and will implement reforms this week, though the timing of the reported executive action is opaque.

President Joe Biden’s potential plan would reportedly allow a threshold of 28,000 migrants per week to enter the US before border officials control the flow of people

Biden is apparently considering using Section 212(f) to restrict migration, which would not require congressional approval

The administration has reportedly been trying to use this power for months — and now sources say an executive order could be on the way this week.

The White House “continues to explore a range of policy options and we remain committed to taking action to address our broken immigration system,” spokesman Angelo Fernández Hernández said recently.

“While Republicans in Congress chose to stand in the way of additional border enforcement, President Biden will not stop fighting to deliver the resources border and immigration personnel need to secure our border,” he added.

But when asked Sunday about Biden’s election-year reversal of border policies, Republican Chairman Mike Johnson denounced the administration’s considered move, saying it is “too little, too late.”

“He’s desperately trying to show the American people that he wants to tackle the issue he created,” Johnson said.

“We documented 64 specific actions that President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas took over from DHS … over the course of three and a half years, beginning on President Biden’s first day in office [took office]to open the border.”

“They did it deliberately. It has had catastrophic consequences for our country that we will live with for decades.”

Despite increasing deportations and operations by the United States and Mexico, migrants on the border between Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez and the US city of El Paso continue to attempt to irregularly cross the border with Rio Grande

Speaker Mike Johnson Claims Biden ‘Manipulated’ Migrant Crisis

Johnson has spent his few months in power lobbying the White House to take executive action on the border.

And now that it has, he claimed it’s only because it’s an election year.

“He wants to issue some kind of executive order, I think to show that he really cares about the issue,” Johnson said. “The only reason he’s doing that is because the polls say this is the biggest problem in America.”

“And the first question that comes up in virtually every public forum is what about that open border and why on earth would President Biden allow it? He did more than allow it, he designed it and everyone knows it.”