US withdraws proposed biometrics rule for immigration
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Last Updated: May 07, 2021, 09:51 PM IST
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As per the proposed rule, which was notified in the Federal Register on September 11, 2020 during Donald Trump s term as president, any applicant, petitioner, sponsor, beneficiary, or individual filing or associated with an immigration benefit or request, including US citizens, must appear for biometrics collection without regard to age.
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Such a move was welcomed by a large number of Indian-Americans who were impacted by the biometrics requirement.
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The US government on Friday withdrew a Donald Trump-era proposal which sought to collect the biometric details of every applicant under immigration and naturalisation benefits.
Announcing that the number of refugees allowed to enter the country each year will increase from 15,000 to 62,500, the president argued that the “historically low number” set by his predecessor “did not reflect America’s values”.
Biden also pledged to seek to raise the figure further to 125,000 - fuelling accusations from Republicans that the Democrat leader is “caving to the demands of liberal activists”, The Washington Post reports.
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Biden’s first months in the White House have been marked by a number of domestic successes, ranging from a speedy vaccine rollout to an increase in spending of around 15% of gross domestic product that pundits predict will help stimulate 7% US economic growth this year.
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One of the best ways to capture the prevailing geopolitical zeitgeist is by pinning down the latest cliché among strategic thinkers. Over the past five years, the term Thucydides trap has come to dominate the discourse about the most consequential bilateral relationship in the 21st century, namely between the United States and China.
The term has been popularized by Harvard political scientist Graham Allison, mainly thanks to his oft-cited Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides s Trap? (2017).
In his book, Allison essentially argues that the Washington and Beijing are a modern Sparta and Athens, caught in the same hegemonic rivalry that the two ancient Greek city states found themselves in during the destructive Peloponnesian War.
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Up to 250 unarmed Palestinian men, women and children were massacred in the village of Deir Yassin by zionist militias on April 9th 1948
DEIR Yassin is a Palestinian village situated on a hilltop, a short distance from the west of Jerusalem. If you try to find it on a map today, you will be disappointed, as the village has been completely razed to the ground.
In its place, in 1951, the newly-created State of Israel built a psychiatric health centre, making use of some of the village’s buildings that remained intact. But Deir Yassin is more than a village; its story encompasses the entire Palestinian tragedy.
Why Biden’s Deal to Have Mexico Secure Its Guatemala Border Can’t Work
Why Biden’s Deal to Have Mexico Secure Its Guatemala Border Can’t Work
By Todd Bensman
on April 19, 2021
With virtual diplomacy and in-person delegations, the Biden administration has announced a deal in which Mexico will bolster its troop deployments on
its southern border to ease the mounting mass-migration crisis on the U.S. southern border. The deal’s central component is for Mexico to beef up a Donald Trump-era deployment to 10,000 at some fifty road checkpoints while Guatemala deploys 1,500 at twelve checkpoints.
But recent interviews with immigrants who reached Mexico’s northern border with Texas revealed a variety of methods they have used to handily beat that deployment, especially since Joe Biden did away with Trump-era policies that crucially buttressed the deployment. Following are some of the methods that immigrants here in Acuna and the neighboring Mexican city of Piedras Negra