Biden, Lopez Obrador talk immigration, COVID-19 at 1st bilateral meeting
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President Joe Biden participates in a virtual bilateral meeting with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. Pool photo by Anna Moneymaker/UPI | License Photo
President Joe Biden listens during a virtual bilateral meeting with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico. Pool photo by Anna Moneymaker/UPI | License Photo
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico is seen on a TV screen during a virtual bilateral meeting with President Joe Biden. Pool photo by Anna Moneymaker/UPI | License Photo
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Lawmakers from struggling border districts pressure Biden to ease coronavirus travel restrictions Print this article
Lawmakers representing border districts say their communities are reeling from the economic effects of the yearlong ban on nonessential travel between Canada and Mexico and are calling on the Biden administration to reopen the northern and southern borders.
President Biden vowed days after arriving in Washington in January that he would look at easing border restrictions. The Trump administration announced on March 20, 2020, that recreational and tourist travel would immediately be blocked at all land ports of entry. That ban has been renewed every 30 days since then and is valid through March 19.
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“Arcane WTO Pact Takes Center Stage in Vaccine Equity Debate” [Bloomberg]. “n the World Trade Organization’s alphabet soup vocabulary, one particular acronym is gaining a lot of attention: TRIPs. Shorthand for the Geneva-based group’s agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual-property rights, TRIPs sets enforceable rules for the protection of trademarks, designs, inventions and other intangible goods in international trade. Today this arcane 1995 agreement has re-entered the political lexicon as a potential tool to save lives and ensure fairness in the pandemic. India and South Africa have offered a proposal that seeks a broad waiver from the TRIPs agreement’s rules on the production and export of vaccines and other critical medical goods needed to combat the Covid-19 virus. On its face, it’s a simple request. Poorer nations without the means to develop vaccines and other medical technologies should be allowed to do everything they can to treat their cit