Back in the U.S., President Biden could make his current hard-line border restrictions permanent, according to administration officials. In June, Biden issued a temporary executive order sealing off the border when the number of asylum seekers exceeds a daily average of 2,

The Biden administration is reportedly considering making temporary changes to asylum rules issued earlier this summer harder to undo by increasing threshold numbers needed to end the rules to likely unattainable levels — effectively causing them to be permanent.

The changes would build on the executive order that President Biden issued in June, which blocked a vast majority of asylum claims at the southern border.

The Biden administration is considering actions that would make the tough restrictions the president ordered in June almost impossible to lift.