President Biden unveiled plans to enact immediate significant restrictions on migrants seeking asylum at the US-Mexico border as the White House attempts to neutralize immigration as a political liability ahead of the November election.
The long-awaited presidential proclamation would prevent immigrants from being granted asylum when U.S. officials deem the southern border overwhelmed. The Democratic president had contemplated unilateral action for months after the collapse of a bipartisan border security agreement in Congress that most Republican lawmakers rejected at the urging of former President Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
Here's a visual report by Times photographer Robert Gauthier along the Southern California border.
Border Patrol detains men seeking asylum after crossing the US-Mexico border hours earlier.
After crossing the border, Border Patrol detains a group of people seeking asylum.
An exhausted family ends a more than nine-hour hike on Mount Cuchoma on a fire road near Campo Road after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
A Border Patrol agent documents asylum seekers near Campo Road after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border at Mount Cuchoma.
Migrants wait to board Border Patrol vehicles near Campo Road after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Rosario Delia, left, from Chiapas, Mexico, and his wife Gracia María, from El Salvador, share a moment outside the Movimiento Juventud 2000 migrant shelter, where they live while waiting to apply for asylum in the U.S.
Guadalupe Olinei Razo is styled by Alma Tapia of the Oaxaca Movement inside Juventud 2000, a migrant shelter, where dozens of asylum-seeking families live while waiting to meet with US officials.
