A senior National Security Council advisor on migration issues is leaving as the White House faces fierce criticism over the situation at the Southern Border.
Robert Alexander/Getty ImagesJoe Biden’s top adviser on migration issues will leave the White House next week amid escalating tensions between states and the feds over the border, and ongoing chaos around border restrictions, according to NBC News. The departure of Katie Tobin, the senior director of transborder matters to the National Security Council, had been planned for months. Over her three years in the position, Tobin was integral to developing the White House's immigration strategy, incl
The Georgian embassy in South Korea has rejected a false claim that surfaced on Facebook alleging that South Koreans are the only foreigners who enjoy visa-free travel to the country. The posts boasted that the ex-Soviet nation "gifted" the privilege to thank Seoul for calling it by its preferred name Georgia, rather than the Russian-favoured Gruziya. However, citizens from 95 countries can visit Georgia visa-free for one year, not just South Koreans. The embassy explained that the inclusion of
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who seeks to reduce the number of asylum seekers and stem support for the far-right, hopes to move closer towards a national consensus on a tougher migration policy at a meeting on Monday with the heads of Germany's 16 states. In recent weeks, Scholz's government has agreed measures to make it easier to deport migrants and to make the country a less attractive destination in the first place, in stark contrast to Berlin's perceived open-door policy under former Chancellor Angela Merkel. It hopes to garner support for such moves from the state leaders and to reach a deal on funding for migration issues that takes account of local authorities' complaints that public coffers and infrastructure are overburdened.