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Why Biden Closed the Border
Migrants attempt to cross the border at Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (Photo by David Peinado/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Faced with an uphill reelection battle, the President has adopted the tough-on-migrants approach of the Trump administration.
By Peter Savodnik
06.05.24 — U.S. Politics
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Joe Biden has finally done what he pledged he would never do: close the border to migrants.

Biden’s executive order, announced yesterday, bars migrants from seeking asylum when the seven-day average of illegal migrants hits 2,500 daily. Since recent totals have exceeded that figure, the executive order automatically went into effect at 12:01 a.m. this mo…

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Peter Savodnik
Peter Savodnik is senior editor at The Free Press. Previously, he wrote for Vanity Fair as well as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other publications, reporting from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, and across the United States. His book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, was published in 2013.
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