Biden administration faces pressure on immigration amid influx

Republicans say President Joe Biden’s new policies on the US-Mexico border are encouraging more migrants to come.

Amid the largest surge in migrant arrivals in 20 years and a rise in the number of unaccompanied children crossing the southern border, officials continued to urge people not to make the journey towards the United States. In an interview with ABC News on Tuesday, President Joe Biden cited a “mess that was inherited” from his predecessor Donald Trump and repeated the White House message that now is not the time for would-be migrants and asylum seekers to show up at US borders. “Yes, I can say quite clearly: don’t come over,” Biden said.