text:  The Biden administration says the president's recent executive action restricting asylum is having an impact, with apprehensions of undocumented immigrants along the southern border declining by 40 percent. Officials say the daily average of encounters along the border is 2,400, not enough to lift the asylum restrictions, but trending downward. The White House today again called on Congress to pass the bipartisan border security bill that is dead on Capitol Hill after House Republicans blocked it. Karen Travers, ABC News, Washington.