“We are examining whether or not I have that power,” Biden said, adding that there is “no guarantee” he will have that ability without the legislation.
The American president Joe Bidensaid in an interview broadcast on Tuesday that he and his Government are trying to determine if he has the authority to act on his own to close his country’s southern border with Mexico to migrants, should it be deemed necessary.
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Biden said in an interview with Univision that because bipartisan legislation that would have given him the authority to close the border was stopped by Republicans in Congress, he was being encouraged to try to go it alone.


“We are examining whether or not I have that power,” Biden said, adding that there is “no guarantee” he will have that ability without the legislation.
Migration is a central issue in this year’s presidential campaign. The ex-president Donald Trump, Biden’s likely Republican opponent in the Nov. 5 election, has accused Biden of botching border issues.
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