Updated on 10/16/2021 02:22 am It is likely that USA reinstate a Trump-era policy in mid-November that requires asylum seekers crossing the southern border to return to Mexico, the Administration said Biden to a federal judge. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has made “substantial progress” toward resuming the Migrant Protection Protocols, which oblige asylum […]
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80,000 US resident cards could be lost.
The administration Biden acknowledged that, in the last fiscal year, the United States did not issue approximately 80,000 green cards that should have been issued to workers immigrants legal. The decrease is added to a cumulative of more than a million people waiting to receive employment visas. Congress must make sure those green cards are […]
The United States says it is willing to reactivate the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body
Updated on 10/14/2021 04:10 pm The Trade Representative of USA, Katherine Tai, visiting Geneva, raised the possibility of reactivating the dispute settlement body of the World Trade Organization (WTO), whose appeal court was blocked by the Donald Trump administration. Former President Trump was against the WTO and blocked the body that examines appeals, leaving it […]
Cryptocurrency companies prepare their own regulations
Faced with the prospect of widespread crackdown by federal authorities, cryptocurrency companies are increasingly trying to argue in Washington that the old rules should not apply. To shape the debate, they are publishing their own policy proposals that would protect them from multiple regulators and even temporarily exempt them from some regulations. The cryptocurrency sector […]
Debate on US legal issue threatens global tax deal
While the Administration Biden and the world’s governments celebrate another move toward a historic global tax deal, a dark legal issue in USA threatens to tear it apart. At a Congressional committee hearing last month, Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, who opposes the deal, told the Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen, that a key part […]
US Lower House approves suspending debt ceiling until December
The Lower House of USA, with a Democratic majority, approved this Tuesday to suspend the debt ceiling until December to prevent the country from incurring a suspension of payments on its national debt as of October 18. The initiative was approved with 219 votes in favor and 206 against, and now it will be sent […]
Cuba: “This is just the beginning”
Originally Joe Biden had planned to leave Cuba as Cuba for the time being. The US president has other foreign policy priorities, his main focus being on relations with China and Russia. But the recent protests in Cuba and the actions of the government there have now moved him to act. Late last week, Biden […]
USA: Urgently Wanted: A Way to Help the Cubans
US President Joe Biden took his time. Only on Monday did he comment on the protests in Cuba that had been going on for days. “We stand by the Cuban people and their clear call for freedom,” says his statement, which is just a few lines long. The Cubans are beaten by the pandemic and […]
Syria: fear of acute famine
About a thousand trucks a month. They are the lifeline for millions of Syrians in the north of the civil war country. The semi-trailers bring food and medicine, which 3.4 million people there depend on. The UN World Food Program, which alone supplies 1.4 million people with food, warned of a catastrophe if deliveries are […]