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During his State of the Union Speech, US President Joe Biden hits out at his predecessor and 2024 White House opponent Donald Trump's rhetoric on immigration. "I will not demonize immigrants saying they're 'poisoning the blood of our country,'" Biden says, referring to Trump's words, and urging Congress to pass immigration reforms. SOUNDBITE
US President Joe Biden's immigration chief escapes impeachment over the border crisis by a razor-thin margin, in a show of support that left House Republicans two votes short of the total they needed to force a Senate trial. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has long been in Republicans' crosshairs over what they describe as a humanitarian crisis, with record numbers of mainly South and Central Americans trying to enter the United States from neighboring Mexico. IMAGES
French Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin told French lawmakers that an immigration bill they were to vote on would regularize the situation of double the amount of undocumented workers. SOUNDBITE
US President Joe Biden promises Ukraine's ambassador to Washington, Oksana Markarova, that the United States will support Ukraine for "as long as it takes" to fight off the Russian invasion, during his State of the Union speech. SOUNDBITE
US President Joe Biden lands in Mexico City and receives a red-carpet welcome from his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Biden arrives in Mexico for talks on migration and drug smuggling, as well as a North American leaders' summit, after a politically charged stop at the border. IMAGES
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says that President Joe Biden's administration would not politicize the Justice Department, after Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a special prosecutor to investigate former president Donald Trump. "This is not an administration, the president has been very clear, that will politicize the Department of Justice," she said. SOUNDBITE
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