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Democratic senators urge Biden to act on temporary protections for migrants

WASHINGTON — Democratic senators are urging President Joe Biden to extend temporary protections for migrants in the U.S. before he leaves office, warning that millions of people could be forced to return to unsafe countries once President-elect Donald Trump retakes the White House. “So we’re going to keep pressing.” The senators from the Congressional Hispanic Conference urged the White House …

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SAN DIEGO — U.S. authorities have seen a 97% decline in illegal border crossings by migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela since Mexico began accepting those expelled under a pandemic-era order, the Biden administration said Wednesday. “It is incomprehensible that some states who stand to benefit from these highly effective enforcement measures are seeking to block them and cause …

Karine Jean-Pierre says Republicans made the border 'worse' and Biden 'inherited a mess' from Trump

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended the administration's border policy in the run-up to President Biden's visit to Texas and Mexico – saying the president 'inherited a mess.' Her comments came a day after President Biden announced a plan to rapidly expel Cuban, Haitian, and Nicaraguan migrants caught illegally crossing the southern border, with the administration facing pushback from …

New sanctions are imposed in response to ‘attacks on democratic actors and members of civil society’, US says. Biden’s executive order gives the US Treasury Department “the authority to target certain persons that operate or have operated in the gold sector of the Nicaraguan economy”, the department said in a statement on Monday. “With President Biden’s new Executive Order, we …

New laws in Central America are upending Biden’s fight against corruption

US President Joe Biden accuses Ortega government of using violence against protesters, jailing opponents to win election. US President Joe Biden on Tuesday banned members of the Nicaraguan government from entering the United States as he issued a broad proclamation in response to an election that Washington has denounced as rigged in favour of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. “The repressive …

Biden signs bill urging Nicaragua sanctions after contested vote

US President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill calling for more sanctions and other punitive measures against the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who at the weekend secured a contentious fourth consecutive term in office. The so-called RENACER Act that Biden signed on Wednesday “imposes sanctions on the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, to restrict multilateral …

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is on track to win a fourth consecutive term in office, preliminary results show, in an election denounced as “neither free nor fair” that was preceded by a months-long crackdown on opposition figures and candidates. Shortly before the early results were released, US President Joe Biden accused Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, of …

Joe Biden has a Florida problem. Why he’s losing the key swing state