‘The necessary steps to secure our border’: Biden defends decision to impose limits on asylum seekers – as it happened

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Joe Biden has taken a slate of new actions intended to prevent migrants from entering the United States from Mexico when the southern border is overwhelmed", the White House announced.

President Biden believes we must secure our border. That is why today, he announced executive actions to bar migrants who cross our southern border unlawfully from receiving asylum," the White House said in a statement.