US pledges $300 million in migration support at Americas Summit
OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro, right, speaks next to Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a ministerial meeting during the Summit of the Americas, June 8, 2022, in Los Angeles.
The Summit of the Americas started with discord but ended the week on a high note. The United States unveiled a long list of measures to confront the migration crisis in the Western Hemisphere and pledged $300 million to tackle the problems. And the Polish government is being accused of setting up a “pregnancy register” to document all the pregnancies in the country. The country’s Health Ministry said the new database is being set up following a European Union directive, but abortion activists are not convinced. Plus, as the Golden State Warriors and Boston Celtics fight for basketball’s biggest bragging rights, Celtics’ head coach Ime Udoka, from Nigeria, has attracted lots of Nigerian fans in Boston to cheer them on.
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