The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the Biden administration over a recent executive order that aims to limit the number of illegal aliens that cross the southern border daily.
President Joe Biden’s executive order, which he signed June 4, gives him the authority to close the border when the seven-day average of daily border crossings between ports of entry exceeds 2,500. The border will only reopen if crossings between ports fall to a seven-day daily average of 1,500 or less.
Pro-immigration groups were quick to criticize the order, saying Biden’s actions would restrict asylum claims.
“We were left with no alternative but to sue,” Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said in a statement Wednesday.
“The administration lacks unilateral authority to override Congress and bar asylum based on how one…
