Biden taps former Delaware governor to lead Afghan resettlement efforts in US
CNN
President Joe Biden has tapped former Delaware Gov. Jack Markell as the temporary point person who will oversee the administration's Afghan evacuee resettlement effort in the United States, the White House announced Friday.
Markell, who served two terms as governor, will be the coordinator of the resettlement initiative that the White House has dubbed "Operation Allies Welcome." "There is no one I trust more than Jack Markell for this next critical phase of Operation Allies Welcome as we welcome Afghan evacuees to America," Biden said.President Joe Biden is expected to announce an executive order as early as Tuesday that would effectively shut down the US-Mexico border to asylum-seekers crossing illegally when a daily threshold of crossings is exceeded – a sweeping and controversial proposal that is likely to receive fierce pushback from progressives and immigration advocates.
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