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Added on the 09/01/2023 03:45:31 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
US President Joe Biden's national security advisor Jake Sullivan will travel to Saudi Arabia and Israel at the weekend for talks with leaders over the conflict in Gaza, the White House says. Sullivan will meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Saturday and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Migrants attempt to pull down a section of a barbed wire fence installed by Texas authorities on the Mexico-US border. The tensions on the border come amid an ongoing legal back-and-forth over a Texas law that would allow state police to arrest and deport migrants who cross illegally into the United States from Mexico. IMAGES
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
A makeshift migrant camp looks nearly empty in Mexico's Matamoros, at the border with Brownsville, Texas, where Democrat US President Joe Biden is expected to meet border patrol and other law enforcement agents. Also heading to the border is Republican former president Donald Trump, who will be about 300 miles (480 kilometers) to the west in Eagle Pass. The Texas showdown comes at a time when record numbers of migrant crossings into the United States are posing a threat to Biden's chances of preventing a Trump comeback in November's presidential election. IMAGES
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and other US officials arrive in Mexico to meet with president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador over surging migration, which has become a major political headache for President Joe Biden as he enters an election year. IMAGES