Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Having reached the top the only way is down.

One day back 10 people, including a police officer, were shot dead at Boulder Colorado in the US. The gunman Ahmed Al Aliwi  Alissa was armed with an AR-15 style pistol. Before this, 3 people were shot dead in Rockford, Illinois on 26 December, 2020, 3 in Sunrise, Florida on 2 February 2021, 6, including 5 children, in Muskogee, Oklahoma on 21 February and 8 in Atlanta, Georgia on 16 March. President Joe Biden was Vice President to Barack Obama when Adam Lanza shot 20 children, between the ages of 6 and 7 years, to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School on 14 December, 2012. "President Joe Biden called on Congress 'to immediately pass' legislation that will immediately close loopholes in gun background checks and ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in his first public remarks." There can be no excuse with Democrats controlling the House and having a majority in the Senate because of a tie-breaking vote by Vice President Kamala Harris. "The US Border Patrol apprehended nearly 100,000 migrants at the US-Mexico border in February, the tenth consecutive month of increased apprehensions and a return to levels last seen in mid-2019," reported Pew Research Center. "On the campaign trail, Joe Biden made sweeping promises to reform US immigration, vowing to 'take urgent action' and undo the policies of Donald Trump," reported BBC. He has certainly been heard. "A growing influx of migrants has led to a record number of children - 3,200 - being held in US immigration facilities as of 8 March." "The United States is facing the biggest surge of migrants at its southwestern border in 20 years the homeland secretary said on Tuesday as the Biden administration races to handle an influx of children trying to cross the US-Mexico border alone." After all the talk about "humane" migrant policies, "The United States is expelling migrants to Mexico far from where they are caught crossing the border, according to Reuters witnesses, in a move that circumvents the refusal of authorities in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas who stopped accepting the return of migrant families with younger children." Away from the US, "North Korea has not responded to behind-the-scenes diplomatic outreach since mid-February by President Joe Biden's administration, including Pyongyang's mission to the United Nations, a senior Biden official told Reuters." On the contrary, "Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korea's leader, warned the Biden administration against 'causing a stink at its first step' on Monday, hours after the White House said it has not received a response to its outreach to Pyongyang." "The first high-level US-China talks of the Biden administration got off to a fiery start" with China's top diplomat Yang Jiechi "lashing out about what he said was the United States' struggling democracy, poor treatment of minorities, and criticizing its foreign and trade policies". Coming from an uncivilized barbarian country like China, that must have hurt. Meanwhile, Biden has not answered questions from journalists as yet and may hold his first news conference on his 65th day in office. It is one thing to sneak into the White House but quite another to be taken seriously by opponents. Is Harris practicing already?

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