US concerns over supply chain problems – Prensa Latina

Amid rising consumer prices, the president attended a meeting with California port system officials, traders and union members to adopt measures that would guarantee the entry of goods to some 60 freighters who are waiting. .

Some estimates assure that 40 percent of containers entering the United States do so through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which have been facing months of overcrowding due to increased electronic commerce and personnel problems. .

This situation affects a shortage of products, which frustrates American consumers and companies as it contributes to a rise in prices, which negatively affects the current administration over the Christmas season.

Given the continuing decline in its approval, according to polls, President Biden thus posed a new challenge to the interior panorama by resistance to vaccination mandates against Covid-19, the migrant crisis at the southern border, and barriers in Congress to approval. . infrastructure plan.

However, the government received a break with approval in the legislature of a bill to raise the US debt limit to $480 billion, to avoid a default until at least December.

Another issue that has received media attention in recent days was an anti-abortion law approved in the southern state of Texas, as the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to suspend its application while fighting a legal battle for its abolition. Went.

On the other hand, the Department of Homeland Security could reinstate the Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP), a policy known as Stay in Mexico, introduced in 2019 under the mandate of former President Donald Trump (2017-2021). happened.

The program, which forces asylum seekers in the United States to live on the other side of the southern border while they await the results of their immigration hearings, was suspended when Biden arrived at the White House, but A court order forced him to take it up again. In the midst of an unprecedented migration crisis.

Argh / April