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Biden’s immigration restrictions caps spots for migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
Ahead of his first trip to the US-Mexico border, and meetings with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador this week, President Joe Biden’s administration announced stringent new immigration rules last Thursday, capping humanitarian parole visas at 30,000 per month to eligible people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. The new rule doesn’t replace Title 42, the contentious authority former President Donald Trump imposed at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic that allows the US to rapidly expel migrants, ostensibly to limit the spread of the disease. Instead, the new rules expand the powers granted under Title 42, enabling the administration to rapidly expel certain migrants who don’t follow the correct…
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Cuba approves law change that opens door to gay marriage, other family rights
HAVANA, July 22 (Reuters) – Cuba’s Countrywide Assembly on Friday accepted a sweeping update of its relatives law which opens the door to enabling gay marriage, greater women’s legal rights, and greater protections for small children, the aged and other household associates. The new Households Code will be put to a referendum vote on Sept. 25 just after getting debated in local community conferences previously this calendar year, in which organizers mentioned 62{c024931d10daf6b71b41321fa9ba9cd89123fb34a4039ac9f079a256e3c1e6e8} of members expressed their help. That is rather small by Cuban benchmarks, where the lately-handed new constitution was authorised with 86{c024931d10daf6b71b41321fa9ba9cd89123fb34a4039ac9f079a256e3c1e6e8} of the vote. Policy proposals in earlier referendums have witnessed aid of about 95{c024931d10daf6b71b41321fa9ba9cd89123fb34a4039ac9f079a256e3c1e6e8}. Register now…
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