The Juez EEUU has issued an impugnación to the program of patrocinio of immigrants

The immigrant arrives at the international airport in Miami. Numerous individuals have entered the United States legally via Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Haiti, under the conditional program of libertad that allows the entry of 30.000 individuals from these five countries each month.

To be eligible, immigrants must have a passport from the United States and enter the country via a regional route.

There was an impugnación of the states led by the republicanos to a program of the Gobierno of Joe Biden.

The juez del Tribunal de Distrito Drew Tipton en Victoria, Texas, dijo que los 21 estados liderados por Texas carecan de legitimación activa para presentar la demanda de 2023 porque no podan demostrar que es

The program's rules state that 234.000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venetians have entered the United States through November 2023, according to the regulations of the Department of Security and Homeland Security.

Tipton said in the fall that the number of people who ingress illegally to the United States from the five countries since the program was implemented had decreased by 44% The juez did not address the merits of the demand, which states that the DHS cares about authority to adopt the program.

There was no immediate response to the solicitudes of comments from the Department of Justice of the United States.

The president Joe Biden, a demócrata looking for another mandate in the presidential elections on November 5, has been working on broadening the legal routes towards the United States to discourage potential illegal immigrants from crossing the border between the United States and Mexico.

The probable opponent of Biden, Donald Trump, has said that this type of programas will be more expensive than what is allowed by the law.

The palestinian dead from the Israeli offensive against Gaza reach almost 31.000

File - File image of several buildings destroyed by the Israeli Army's bombing of the city of Jabalia, located in the north of the Gaza Strip (file) - Abdul Rahman Salama / Xinhua News / Contactophoto

There is a press release on 9 March.

There are 31.000 palestinos killed because of the offensive launched by the Ejército of Israel against the Franja of Gaza.

The balance of the agression has increased to 30.960 mártires and 72.524 heridos since October 7, according to the Ministerio of Sanidad.

The ocupación avoids that the ambulancias and the personal of the defense. Furthermore, the authorities in Gaza estimate the number of missing persons at around 7,000.

72 percent of the victims are women and children, according to the authorities in Gaza.

Israel launched its offensive against the enclave after the citados ataques of Hamás, which left over 1,200 dead and over 240 secuestrados. The balances of vctimas se suman around 415 palestinos murdered in Cisjordania and Jerusalén.

The European Union is urging the opening of a maritime aid corridor to Gaza

The destruction left by the Israeli offensive on Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, is seen by a Palestinian as she walks past it.

A maritime corridor to Gaza, part of a global effort to provide aid to the encircled territory, could be operational as soon as this weekend, according to the head of the European Commission.

The head of the Spanish aid group Open Arms, Ursula von der Leyen, told reporters in Cyprus that a vessel belonging to the group is prepared for a test run along the corridor. A U.S. charity, World Central Kitchen, is waiting for permission to deliver food aid to the ship at the island's port of Larnaca.

The European Union, the United Arab Emirates and the United States are joining forces to launch this maritime corridor from Cyprus, von der Leyen said after touring the port's facilities.

There are innocent Palestinian families and children desperate for basic needs in Gaza, she said.

The comments come a day after President Joe Biden said the U.S. military would establish a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza to help deliver aid to the region.

The construction of the pier is expected to take around 60 days, according to military officials.

According to the Associated Press, World Central Kitchen is also building a pier to receive aid from the vessel in Cyprus.

Biden told reporters on Friday that he needed to do more to let relief into Gaza.

Biden was caught on a hot mic Thursday night saying that he and the Israeli leader would need to have a meeting.

Biden made the comments while he was speaking to Democratic Senator Michael Bennet on the floor of the House after the State of the Union address.

Biden was urged to press Netanyahu to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Biden used Netanyahu's nickname, "Bibi, and don't repeat this, but you and I are going to have a 'come to Jesus' meeting."

The senior U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Gaza, Sigrid Kaag, told reporters on Friday that the organization is in favor of the idea of a waterway. She pointed out, however, that waterways and aerial drops of aid aren't a substitute for delivering vital supplies via trucks on land.

She said that the maritime plan, nevertheless, will provide very important help.

Five people died at the Al-Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza after the parachute malfunctioned and the parcel landed in a residential area, according to medical personnel and eyewitnesses on Friday.

The head of emergency care at the Al Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City confirmed the deaths.

CBS News reported that an initial review indicated that the U.S. airdrop was not responsible for the fatalities on the ground, but that further investigation was required.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said it was up to Hamas whether a cease-fire took place in Gaza in the near future.

Despite reports that Hamas negotiators had left talks in Cairo, Blinken said the U.S. is continuing to work toward a cease-fire in Gaza.

At this time, we're also incredibly focused on negotiating a cease-fire," Blinken told reporters. "And there, the issue is Hamas. The question is whether Hamas will decide or not to have a cease-fire that would benefit everyone. The ball is in their possession. We are working on it intensively.

Information for this report came from The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse.

The US Senate has approved a spending bill, thereby averting a potential shutdown

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., walks outside the chamber ahead of final work on a partial government funding bill, March 8, 2024.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Friday, the U.S. Senate stopped a partial government shutdown by agreeing to spending money for several government agencies before their current funding ends.

Senators voted 75-22 to approve a $467.5 billion spending package that will fund agriculture, transportation, housing, energy, veterans, and other programs through September 30. The package is going to President Joe Biden for him to sign.

All the money for those programs was going to run out at midnight.

This helped end an argument for government spending that had been going on for months. At one point, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives didn't have a leader for three weeks.

Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, said that this bipartisan package says otherwise.

The bill passed the Republican-controlled House of Representatives this week. But action in the Senate was delayed as some conservative Republicans wanted votes on immigration and other topics. All of them did not succeed.

Congress needs to come up with a plan for spending more money on things like the military, homeland security, health care, and other things. The funding for those programs expires on March 22.

Together, the two things would cost $1.66 trillion. Some Republicans wanted to reduce spending more to pay down the $34.5 trillion national debt.

All of these rules were supposed to be made into law by October 1, which is when the 2024 fiscal year starts. Congress usually meets that deadline, but this year has been especially chaotic. So far, Congress has had to approve four temporary funding bills to keep agency operations the same as last year.

Dianne Feinstein, a Democratic Senator, asked for $241.3 million in earmarks, which are local projects. She died on September 29, 2023, two days before the new year begins.

The US Presidential Election Will Be a War of Competing Messages

President Joe Biden crosses his fingers when asked about a cease-fire in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.

President Joe Biden will visit Pennsylvania on Friday, and Donald Trump plans to hold a rally in Georgia on Saturday.Both men will be campaigning hard for eight months and have many other things to do. Biden is a president, and Trump is facing many criminal and civil lawsuits.

It promises to be a very personal fight. Biden spent much of his televised address on Thursday calling his predecessor an existential threat to American democracy.

Trump appeared to follow the speech in real time, posting dozens of comments on Truth Social, his social media platform, criticizing Biden's hairstyle, tone of voice, and policy positions.

Biden and his surrogates will do their best to stress the strong economic numbers of the past year and remind voters why Trump left office with the highest final disapproval rating of any president since Nixon.

Meanwhile, Trump will continue to hammer on the fact that consumer prices have increased by about 20% since Biden took office, to draw attention to the migration crisis at the southern border, to remind voters of Biden's age, and to say that global crises that emerged during Biden's term, Messaging challenges for both parties.

Jacob Neiheisel, an associate professor of political science at the University at Buffalo, said that both candidates would like the campaign to be about. I think they'll try to stick to that message as closely as they can, as world circumstances and evidence from their own internal polls will allow.

Neiheisel told VOA that both candidates will have a hard time imposing their preferred narrative on the election.

Trump wants this campaign to be about remembering the good days, the time before COVID when the economy was going crazy. I want you to associate that kind of thing with me,'" he said.

The issue is that he is an incumbent in many ways, and people remember not only those times, but also the COVID times. I think he's going to have a hard time with that message.

Biden, he said, appears to be placing a lot of faith in the idea that campaigning as a defender of democracy is a formula for winning the election.

"I don't know how mobilizing the defense of democracy is an issue," Neiheisel said. "I certainly think it is for high-information voters, but I'm not sure how well that resonates across the spectrum."

Talking about the economyBoth candidates are certain to spend much of the campaign trying to shape voters' views of the economy, a contest that played out very publicly Thursday night.

In Washington, Biden repeatedly returned to the theme of the country's economic progress during his tenure, calling it the "greatest comeback story never told."

"Folks, I inherited an economy that was on the brink," Biden said. "Now our economy is literally the envy of the world. Fifteen million new jobs in just three years — a record, a record. Unemployment at 50-year lows."

At the same time, Trump was active on social media, writing, "INFLATION UNDER BIDEN IS KILLING AMERICA!"

The former president followed up with several memes highlighting price increases that Americans have experienced over the past three years, including for gasoline, food, rent, mortgages and electricity.

Hard to break throughCaroline Fohlin, a professor of economics at Emory University and an expert on public perceptions of the economy, said it will be difficult for either Trump or Biden to influence voters' feelings about the economy through rhetoric alone.

"There will definitely be a massive amount of credit-taking and blame-shifting, even for things that are really not the result of anything either candidate did," she told VOA. But such claims are typically outweighed by kitchen-table economics.

"We can tell people all the numbers we want, and yet, what they make decisions on is mostly what's in front of them," Fohlin said. "So, people who are doing well have a positive view, people who are struggling have a negative view."

Fohlin said that Biden has been having difficulty persuading the American public to take a brighter view of the economy. Despite the fact that wages have been growing at a rate higher than that of inflation, she said, people still see bills that are significantly higher than they were in 2020, and associate the change with the president who was in office at the time.

However, she said, public perceptions could well improve before November and take some of the sting out of the former president's attacks.

"If we're still in declining inflation rates, and employment is still very good, and the stock market's still doing really well, it's very hard for Trump to tell a story that Biden has ruined the economy."