evidence: WASHINGTON — Facing mounting political pressure over the migrant influx at the southern border, President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed an executive action that will temporarily shut down asylum requests once the average number of daily encounters tops 2,500 between official ports of entry, according to a senior administration official. [...] "President Biden has led a historic opening of lawful pathways for individuals to and including families, to enter the United States through a lawful process, including the CBP One mobile application to request an appointment to present at a port of entry, as well as family reunification programs in countries throughout the region and a historic parole process for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans," a senior administration official said. "And so this measure that we are announcing today comes alongside those lawful pathways," [...] "It is a betrayal of what we were told in his campaign four years ago," said Lindsay Toczylowski, the executive director for the California-based Immigrant Defenders Law Center. "We were told that President Biden would be restoring humanity at our border. … But what we are seeing is that history is repeating itself."