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The U.S./Canadian border may be opening soon after being closed to non-essential travel for more than 14 months. But not to everyone.

May 24, 2021 6:12 AM By Brandon Lee and Alex Ruoff Federal Health officials are ramping up their surveillance of the highly transmissible Covid-19 variant first identified in India as experts warn that under-vaccinated areas in the U.S. could become hot spots for the mutation. While U.S. cases attributed to the B.1.617 variant currently sit below 1%, the growth rate remains unclear due to the small sample size. Meanwhile, one science group said the strain could be as much as 50% more transmissible than B.1.1.7, the variant that emerged from the U.K. That mutation was first seen in...

Illegally crossing a border opening. >> well that's right and the crisis clearly is at the southern border. we have this central american caravan folks from el saveloy door, honduras, guatemala are headed our way, they aren't in fear of their lives they just don't like the conditions in their home country. that's not a standard that allows someone to come in and avoid our normal processes to acquire citizenship in this country. we have to get on top of it. i entered a bill early last year to clean-up this asylum problem to clarify what the credible fear standard is and make sure that it's not ...

Nasser is a former adviser and special representative to afghanistan and pakistan and contributor to "bloomberg view." as of july 1st, the new dean of foreign policy, graduate school at johns hopkins. great to see you. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. congratulations on all the new jobs and titles. >> thank you. >> let's talk about this, because this negotiation, there was a real divide in the white house, in the obama white house. hillary clinton and the state department team wanted all along to just, say you're sorry last november. okay. there was fault on both sides. it's clear that th...