white house of ignoring the mas exploitation of mass migrant children. a. some of the kids allegedly forced to work long hours in factories and slaughterhouses under unsafe conditions. publicans questioned dhs secretary alejandro about that last week. you re knocking to take any responsibility for the indentur to start a and explication of children happening on your watch . tens of thousands of children who are forced to work as slave because of your policies and yo turn around and blame a prior administration. each should ve resigned long ago . if you cannot change course, yo should be removed. all of this coming to a head as border agents a search of illegal crossings with title 42 is set to expire in a few weeks time. that date is may 11. nate. good morning even before the end of title 42, we are seeing migrant search just in the overnight hours in this field behind me. 1,000 migrants were processed were seen more action again thi morning. take a live look. as of r
encouraged the investment through the chips and science act and now we have enormous investment in the united states. over $200 billion in long-term investment in semiconductors. and rebuilding the economy of the united states with those semiconductors. it s not designed to hurt china. the only thing i did say with regard to china, there are certain extremely sophisticated semiconductors that we have built that are useful for nuclear and/or other weapon systems. those we are not selling, we are not exporting to china or anyone else. and so that s the context in which this has all occurred. in the meantime, creating thousands of jobs and bringing back a sense of pride and dignity to so many towns in the country where all of a sudden over the last three decades we found out that factory had 600 people shut down. and the soul of the community was lost and so i made sure when the semiconductors were coming back that they were not just going to go to the coast, they would be all
yet now, especially in europe and the western world, it feels as though the disease has passed us, even though it actually hasn t. it s as though we couldn t take all the restrictions it brought any more. life has opened up and only a minority of people are wearing masks now. in china, by contrast, the epidemic still dominates everything. i talked to fergus walsh, the bbc s medical editor, about the world s experience of this modern day plague. covid is going to be with us for years and years to come. and there was a lot of talk right at the beginning about herd immunity the idea that we d all get it once and then that would be it. well, now you can get omicron, the latest variant of concern, and you can get that again and again. so it s going to be, in a way, a little bit like flu and vaccines will be our best protection against it. they have been the extraordinary success story of this pandemic. i think the fastest ever developed vaccine was. took four years to develop an
we ll ask him in just a moment. but first something he s been sounding the alarm on for months. brand-new warnings of the dangers of gain of function research happening around the globe with much of it coming from the u.s. direction and funding. gillian turner live in washington. international consortium of scientists, public health officials and doctors are calling for a global ban on virus hunting, the practice to search for viruses in nature and then bringing them into research labs. i ve called for a moratorium on gain of function research. because i think normally we have a species barrier that can interfere with new pathogens going from nature into humans. but when you do gain of function research, you remove that barrier and put us at great risk. doctors who treated thousands of cases on the front lines argue the risks of virus hunting