The President of the United States, Joe Biden, announced on Thursday his new goal of inoculating 200 million doses of the vaccine against covid-19 for his 100 days in office, Duplicating its original promise.
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“Today I am setting the second goal, and that is for me one hundred days in office to have applied 200 million doses in people’s arms“Biden told reporters at his first press conference since taking office on January 20. The first 100 days of the Biden administration come on April 29.
The White House announced the implementation of a $ 10 billion plan to correct inequalities in access to the vaccine, Which particularly affect ethnic minorities.
The goal is to reach “the most affected and vulnerable populations, the populations most exposed to viruses,” Biden said.
During this press conference, the Democrat touched on several topics. On the one hand, Biden said he intends to run for re-election by 2024. “My plan is to run for re-election. This is my expectation“Biden, 78, told reporters when asked about his political future.
He commented that he is “a great respectful of destiny” and that he does not make firm plans so far in advance, but that if he shows up in 2024, he would “fully wait” that Vice President Kamala Harris was again her formula mate.
He then spoke of North Korea and Afghanistan. As for recent tensions with Pyongyang, which recently conducted a series of tests with missiles, Biden noted that his country will respond to any kind of provocation. At the same time he noted that diplomatic rapprochement with the North Korean regime will be conditioned on a process of denuclearization.
Joe Biden said he intends to run for re-election in 2024.
In the Afghanistan affair he said it is “difficult” to comply with the withdrawal of troops for May 1st. Biden indicated on Thursday that he does not intend to stay “long” in this country.
“It will be difficult to meet the May 1 date for tactical reasons. It is difficult to get these troops out,” he noted. He then explained that a withdrawal should be done in a “safe and orderly” manner. “We’re leaving, the question is when,” he added.
Meanwhile, another issue that Biden touched on in his press conference was the influx of migrants on the border that his country has with Mexico. Biden says “nothing has changed” at the border, where it faces a migration crisis by the arrival of minor immigrants.
The increase in immigration and minors arriving alone “happens every year,” the president said.
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“There is a significant increase in the number of people arriving at the border in the winter months -January, February and March-“Because migrants “They can travel less likely to die on the way due to the heat of the desert“, He said.
But Biden indicated that the increase in migratory flow had begun before his arrival at the White House on January 20th. “I will not apologize for abolishing policies that violated international law and human dignity,” he said.
Upon taking office, the president suspended the deportations of migrants for 100 days, introduced a bill to offer a path to citizenship to the 11 million immigrants undocumented that is estimated to exist in the country, and began admitting some of the asylum seekers who had been waiting months in camps in Mexico.
Biden considered the idea that he attracted new migrants with his “good guy” image “flattering.” But for him, this is not the reason for the increase in the flow of migrants, mostly from Central America.
“People leave Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador first of all for earthquakes, floods, lack of food and gang violence“In February, more than 100,000 undocumented migrants were detained on the southern U.S. border, including nearly 9,500 unaccompanied minors, and those arrivals accelerated further in March.
U.S. authorities were in charge of more than 15,000 unaccompanied youths as of Tuesday, Including almost 5,000 at border posts which, they themselves admitted, are not suitable for children.
Biden also said the United States is allowing the entry of several migrant families because Mexico refuses to accept their return. “We are in negotiations with the president of Mexico, I think we will see this change,” he said. “Everyone should come back.”
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* With AFP and EFE
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