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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
Opponents of a French bill on asylum and immigration gather by the Constitutional Council as they await its imminent ruling on the text adopted in December under pressure from the right. IMAGES
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
Ex-president Donald Trump brands his successor Joe Biden an "enemy of the state" during a rally in Pennsylvania, as he slams last month's FBI raid of his Florida home. "You want to know the truth? The enemy of the state is him and the group that controls him," Trump tells cheering supporters. SOUNDBITE