The Americans were not happy. The migrant situation at the border was out of control, they said, and Mexico was not doing enough to stop it, according to officials from both countries. In fact, the crisis was worse than Mexican officials had been led to believe by their own immigration chief, Francisco Garduño Yáñez. The…
The Biden administration on Friday issued sweeping extensions of deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of people from Sudan, Ukraine and Venezuela in a move that makes it almost impossible for President-elect Donald J. Trump to swiftly strip the benefit when he takes office. The extension of Temporary Protected Status, as the program is called,…
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and his French counterpart, Jean-Noël Barrot, spoke on Wednesday in Paris of the challenges already posed to U.S. alliances by the imminent return of Donald J. Trump to the White House, and said they believed that an American takeover of Greenland was an impossible idea. But they also asserted…
The United States declared on Tuesday that a genocide took place in Sudan, drawing fresh attention to the scale of atrocities in Africa’s largest war and singling out one side in the conflict as the perpetrators of some of the worst violence. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary…
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and the foreign minister of South Korea, Cho Tae-yul, both acknowledged the challenges to democracy in their nations on Monday while asserting that the alliance between the countries remained strong despite ongoing political turmoil. “Our relationship is bigger than any one leader, any one government, any one party,” Mr….
– Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. – Four years ago, President Biden came into office with the world still wracked by the coronavirus pandemic, and the biggest global challenge was to save lives and get economies back on their feet. After the tumultuous first Trump presidency, when it came to foreign…