Biden considering executive action to address border crisis: reportÂ

President Biden is reportedly considering using his executive powers to tighten asylum standards and deny migrants seeking entry to the United States between ports of entry. According to Politico, the proposals being discussed at the White House include increasing the threshold required for asylum seekers to meet a “credible fear standard” and prompting the deportation […]
Secretary of State Antony Blinken urges staffers to avoid using âproblematicâ terms like âmanpowerâ and âmother/fatherâ: reportÂ

Secretary of State Antony Blinken reportedly instructed State Department officials in a recent internal memo to refrain from using sexist terms such as “mother,” “father,” and “human resources.” According to the Feb. 5 letter, Biden administration officials said in a memo that gender is a social construct and that a person’s gender identity “may or […]