🥣 Plus: Cereal history | Tuesday, June 04, 2024
| | | | | | | Presented By Amazon | | | | Axios PM | | By Mike Allen · Jun 04, 2024 | | Chin up — we're almost to Wednesday. Today's newsletter, edited by Alex Fitzpatrick, is 495 words, a 2-min. read. Thanks to Sheryl Miller for copy editing. - 🤖 Join Axios virtually tomorrow at 2 p.m. ET for our AI+ NYC Summit, hosted in partnership with Tech:NYC. Register here for the livestream.
| | | | | | 1 big thing: Biden's border cutoff | | A drone view of the U.S.-Mexico border wall yesterday in Jacumba Hot Springs, Calif. Photo: Go Nakamura/Reuters President Biden's new executive order on illegal migration marks the administration's most aggressive border action yet, Axios' Stef W. Kight reports. - Under the order, which takes effect immediately, migrants who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border will largely be blocked from asylum and could face fast-tracked deportation, Biden officials say.
- Removal to Mexico or a migrant's home country could happen in a matter of hours.
🔎 Between the lines: The U.S. will depend on Mexico to take in migrants rejected under the order. But officials didn't indicate that Mexico will expand its existing cooperation. - Congress hasn't provided new funds to help carry out such a shift in process and policy.
- And the administration is preparing for fast legal challenges.
Reality check: Border numbers have fallen drastically from the record high in December, and they've held relatively steady for most of this year. - Still, Biden is announcing these measures with "Congress failing to act and in the face of the summer months when we typically see encounters increase," a senior official told reporters.
Go deeper. |     | | | | | | 2. Facebook's plan to be cool again | | Illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios Facebook is revealing its Gen Z user numbers after starting to make progress winning younger folks back, Axios' Sara Fischer reports. - It has 40 million daily active users in the U.S. and Canada between the ages of 18 and 29, Facebook head Tom Alison tells Axios.
- Rough estimates suggest that's just 19% of its North American daily active user base.
Facebook is focused on three major changes to win over Gen Z: - Feed: The company is focusing on discovery of content relevant to younger audiences — including shopping, dating, groups and events.
- Reels: A greater emphasis on short-form video via Reels. It's now easier for users to share that content via private messages.
- Creators: A new "professional mode" to make Facebook more creator-friendly.
Go deeper ... get Axios Media Trends. | | | | | | | | A message from Amazon | | "Since starting at Amazon I've been promoted 5 times" | | |  | | | | Maydeen turned a temporary job at Amazon's Edison, New Jersey fulfillment center into a career. Here's how: Amazon helps employees thrive with comprehensive benefits and on-the-job skills training programs to grow their careers. - "Amazon offers so much training and support," she said.
See more. | | | | | | 3. Catch me up | | Tucupita Marcano in 2021. Photo: Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images - ⚾️ San Diego Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano was banned from MLB for life after betting on games. Go deeper.
- ⚡ Some OpenAI staffers are calling for more transparency and whistleblower protections. Go deeper.
- ⚖️ A judge declined requests from Hunter Biden's lawyers to remove evidence from the record in his federal gun trial. Go deeper.
| | | | | | | | 4. 🥣 Historic cereal box | | Photo: WK Kellogg Co. Bestselling cookbook author and chef Molly Baz will be the first pregnant woman to appear on a cereal box, Axios' Eleanor Hawkins reports. - Why it matters: Kellogg is the latest company to appeal to mothers through culturally relevant branding strategies.
Baz made headlines after a Times Square billboard from breastfeeding startup Swehl was removed by operator Clear Channel. - The removal of the ad — which featured images of Baz's pregnant belly exposed and breasts covered by cookies — sparked a conversation about advertising double standards.
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