Article 5JH03 Biden declares white supremacists ‘most lethal threat’ to US as he marks Tulsa race massacre - as it happened

Biden declares white supremacists ‘most lethal threat’ to US as he marks Tulsa race massacre - as it happened

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Maanvi Singh (now) and Joan E Greve (earlier)
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1.01am BST

- Joan E Greve and Maanvi SIngh

12.35am BST

The Biden administration formally ended the Trump-era remain in Mexico" policy that forced thousands of asylum seekers from Central America to wait in Mexico while the US to process their cases.

The administration had paused the program in January. In a memo sent to agency leaders today, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the policy did not adequately or sustainably enhance border management."

A dusty soccer ball lay idle and forgotten a few days ago at an empty dwelling that had been knitted together from billowing, fraying plastic tarps tied to dead trees in the Mexican city of Matamoros.

The vignette of the abandoned shelter is expected to replicate across the makeshift migrant camp in the coming weeks, wedged between the edge of the city and the swirling Rio Grande, across the border from south-east Texas.

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