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Biden's order will likely shut off asylum requests and deny
entrance to migrants once a daily threshold is exceeded, the
sources said.
Biden, a Democrat seeking a second four-year term in the Nov. 5
election, has toughened his approach to border security in
recent months as immigration has emerged as a top concern among
voting-age Americans.
Republicans, including Biden's opponent, former President Donald
Trump, have criticized the president for rolling back
restrictive Trump-era border policies and failing to stem higher
levels of illegal crossings.
The sources cautioned that Biden had yet to give a final
approval to the plan. The announcement could come on Tuesday,
the sources said.
A White House official said there had not been any final
decisions regarding what additional executive actions, if any,
could be taken.
Biden said in a Univision interview in April that he and his
administration were trying to determine whether he has the
authority to act on his own to shut down the U.S.'s southern
border with Mexico to migrants, should it be deemed necessary.
An attempt at bipartisan migration legislation fell apart in
February when Republicans blocked it. Biden blamed Trump for
using his influence to derail the legislation to allow the
Republican to maintain migration as an election issue.
"As we have said before, the administration continues to explore
a series of policy options and we remain committed to taking
action to address our broken immigration system," a White House
spokesperson said.
The U.S. Border Patrol caught a monthly record of 250,000
migrants crossing illegally in December, but numbers have
dropped significantly since then, with 137,000 arrests in March.
(Reporting by Steve Holland; editing by Jonathan Oatis, Leslie
Adler and Diane Craft)
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