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Donald Trump’s administration “dismantled” the US immigration system according to Joe Biden’s head of homeland security Alejandro Mayorkas in comments during the White House press briefing on Monday. He said that his team is working around the clock to “replace the cruelty of the past administration with an orderly, humane and safe immigration process”.

Joe Biden is currently meeting with his Mexican counterpart President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, “AMLO”, for an initial virtual meeting at which immigration and fighting the Covid-19 pandemic are expected to be top of the agenda. Mr Biden told AMLO that he sees Mexico as an equal.

It was announced in the White House Covid briefing that the CDC is “deeply concerned” at the plateauing of the decline in Covid cases in the US as new variants spread and states begin to relax restrictions.

As the first Johnson & Johnson vaccines are sent out for delivery across the US, it emerged that former president Trump and first lady Melania Trump received their vaccinations before leaving the White House in January.

In his speech at CPAC on Sunday, Mr Trump urged all Americans to take the vaccine.

Mitt Romney knocked unconscious and needed stitches after weekend fall

Utah senator Mitt Romney says he “took a fall” while visiting his grandkids in Boston over the weekend, knocking him unconscious and sending him to the hospital.

He told CNN the injury required “a lot of stitches.”

Reporters captured photos of the Republican senator, who is 73, with a black eye on Monday.

He joked that the injury was because he visited the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The annual conservative gathering disinvited him because he twice voted to impeach Donald Trump.

The former president criticised the Utah legislator and others who went against him in the impeachment vote during his big comeback speech at CPAC on Sunday.

Josh Marcus has the full report.

Mitt Romney knocked unconscious and needed stitches after weekend fall

The Utah senator was visiting his grandchildren over the weekend when he fell

Justin Vallejo2 March 2021 00:40

Biden calls Mexican president an ‘equal’ partner amid surge in border crossings

Dispensing with the tough talk of the Trump years, Joe Biden is embracing Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as an “equal” partner on a range of issues, from their respective economies and the Covid crisis, to climate change and immigration issues.

Gathered in the White House’s Roosevelt Room with top aides including Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as well as an onlooking press corps, Mr Biden struck notes of accord with his key North American counterpart.

“We look at Mexico as an equal, not as somebody who is south of our border. You are equal, and what you do in Mexico and how you succeed impacts dramatically what the rest of the hemisphere will look like,” Mr Biden told Mr López Obrador in introductory remarks.

Griffin Connolly has the full recap from today’s meeting.

Biden calls Mexican president an ‘equal’ partner amid surge in border crossings

President’s warm tone towards Mexico has translated to substantial policy changes

Justin Vallejo2 March 2021 00:56

Justin Vallejo2 March 2021 00:58

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