The Mexican rescuers joining the search for survivors in Surfside
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Rescue specialists from Mexico are joining the massive search for survivors in the wreckage of the Surfside, Florida partial building collapse.
In the disaster zone, assisting local, state and federal rescue crews, is the Mexico-based "Go Team" of Cadena International, a Jewish nonprofit which has responded to more than 1,000 natural disasters and humanitarian crises since 2005. Another rescue team from Mexico on the scene, "Topos Azteca," is a non-profit Mexican group founded after the deadly 1985 Mexico City Earthquake, who are known as experts in massive search and rescue operations around the world. Israel has also deployed a rescue team to assist with rescue and recovery efforts in Florida.President Joe Biden on Sunday delivers his first commencement address of the 2024 season at Morehouse College, where the president may for the first time in months have to confront the angst that’s been percolating on college campuses nationwide toward his administration’s policies on the Israel-Hamas war.
Arab and Palestinian Americans left a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday night frustrated they did not have a clear understanding of how the Biden administration might act upon their concerns as the Israel-Hamas war devastates the civilian population in Gaza, participants told CNN.