Racism debate: Biden government halts lawsuit against elite university Yale

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The accusation was explosive: In the fall of last year, the Justice Department accused the then US President Donald Trump of discriminating against white and Asian-American students in the allocation of their study places at the elite Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

You would have worse chances than black applicants (read more here).

But now the new government under Joe Biden has dropped a lawsuit filed in October against the renowned university.

This was announced by the Ministry of Justice.

In a statement, a Justice Department spokesman said he had dropped the lawsuit "given all available facts, circumstances and legal developments."

A spokeswoman for Yale University said she was "pleased" with the termination of the lawsuit.

Blacks have been severely underrepresented in America's elite universities in recent years, and although universities are now increasingly promoting diversity, they are still a small minority.

The next turn of the Biden government

The new government had previously reversed several Trump decisions.

On this Wednesday the extension of the nuclear disarmament treaty "New Start" with Russia was decided (read more here).

He is also reversing orders issued by his predecessor Trump on immigration and asylum issues that are contrary to the character and security of the United States, Biden said in the White House on Tuesday.

With an order, Biden wants to reunite migrant families who were separated by US authorities on the border with Mexico during Trump's tenure.

The procedure was part of Trump's "zero tolerance policy," which was intended to deter immigrants.

The practice of separating children from their parents caused international outrage.

Biden now called the procedure "the moral disgrace of the previous government".

A further ruling is intended to review and, if necessary, reverse the regulations of the previous government with which the US border with Mexico was de facto closed to asylum seekers.

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