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Added on the 04/06/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Immigration policy continues to feature heavily in the final campaigns of midterm candidates on both sides of the aisle. President Donald Trump has repeatedly blamed Democrats of allowing "criminals" into the country illegally and has ordered regular army troops to the US-Mexican border as a caravan of a few thousand impoverished migrants slowly marches toward the boundary. Meanwhile, Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, have accused Trump of "fear-mongering" and "political stunts". IMAGES from the US-Mexico border in San Elizario, Texas
Dozens of migrants camp at the US-Mexico Border in Tijuana as they wait for the expiration of the so-called Title 42, a strict protocol implemented by Donald Trump to deny entry to migrants and expel asylum seekers based on the Covid pandemic emergency. President Biden's administration is officially lifting Title 42 on May 11. IMAGES
Images of the situation in El Paso, Texas, near the US-Mexico border, where migrants wait on the streets as the United States is girding for the arrival of thousands of migrants this week, with the lapse of pandemic-era rules that have made claiming asylum at the border all but impossible. IMAGES
Mexico City, May 2 (EFE).- (Camera: EFE). The slow progress in the vaccination against Covid-19 and the handling of the pandemic by the federal government are used by the opposition as an electoral weapon to gain supporters, but everything indicates that it is not a transcendental issue for the electorate, according to several specialists.FOOTAGE OF VACCINATION CAMPAIGN IN MEXICO.
Presidential candidate and front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known has AMLO, arrives at the polling station in Mexico City, ahead of the vote. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).