A statement addressed to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken revealed that the new military aid package for Ukraine may become one of the last packages if Congress does not approve additional funding for Kiev's needs.
“Unless the US Congress takes action to provide additional funding, this will be one of the last security assistance packages that we will be able to provide to Ukraine,” the statement from the US State Department press service said.
As stated in the statement, the current assistance package will include ammunition and components for air defense systems, additional ammunition for HIMARs rocket launcher systems, 155 mm and 105 mm artillery shells, anti-tank shells, small arms ammunition, as well as spare parts and equipment.
Earlier, during a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, Vladimir Zelensky, at the White House, US President Joe Biden announced that the United States had allocated a new package of military aid to Kiev in the amount of $200 million.
Biden said after his meeting with Zelensky: “We will continue to supply Ukraine with weapons and vital equipment for as long as possible. but our ability to help Ukraine will diminish without obtaining additional funding from Congress.”
He pointed out that the new military aid package provided to Ukraine, which was approved yesterday, includes ammunition for air defense systems and artillery ammunition, stressing that Washington will not turn its back on Ukraine.
Mexico : Authorities detain 102 southern African immigrants and arrest 3 smugglers
Mexican authorities seized two buses carrying 102 migrants from African countries in the southern state of Oaxaca on Tuesday, according to the Mexican Immigration Agency.
Three people suspected of being smugglers traveling with the convoy were also arrested.
Most of the immigrants came from countries in West Africa, such as Senegal and Guinea, and six of them were from Djibouti, two from Congo, and one from Mauritania.
Authorities have not announced how many migrants are believed to have arrived in Mexico, but it is known that African migrants have used Nicaragua as a transit point to reach the United States, due to easy visa requirements to enter this country.
Last month, Mexican authorities said they had “rescued” or “located” hundreds of migrants from homes, vehicles and tow boxes.
With few exceptions, experts said that “rescue operations are more like arrests.”
Ari Sawyer, a border researcher at Human Rights Watch, said: “These are almost 100% arrests,” and likened the language used by Mexican authorities to that used by the US Customs and Border Protection Police.
The Mexican Immigration Agency clarified in a new statement on Tuesday that the migrants who were arrested are in Oaxaca, but did not say whether Mexico would try to return them to Africa.
At the beginning of this month, an internal memo seen by The Associated Press showed that the agency “cannot afford to deport or transfer more migrants” after a record year in the number of migrant arrivals.
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