What does Biden’s executive order on immigration do?

Earlier this month, President Biden issued an executive order widely viewed as the most aggressive immigration crackdown by a Democratic president in modern history. While Biden has been criticized by some for giving himself the power to “shut down” the border, the reality of what the order does is more complicated than that. Yahoo News explains why the order was issued — and how it’s intended to provide relief to the United States’s backlogged asylum system.