- Yoshihide Suga and Biden will participate in expanded bilateral meeting
- North Korea and China will be primary topics of conversation – official
- Sign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by email
2.58pm BST
George W Bush penned a Washington Post op-ed on how to approach immigration reform, and the piece includes some of the former president’s artwork.
In the piece, Bush notes he is publishing a new collection of paintings, entitled “Out of Many, One.†(Bush previously published a collection of portraits of American veterans.)
The help and respect historically accorded to new arrivals is one reason so many people still aspire and wait to become Americans. So how is it that in a country more generous to new arrivals than any other, immigration policy is the source of so much rancor and ill will? The short answer is that the issue has been exploited in ways that do little credit to either party. And no proposal on immigration will have credibility without confidence that our laws are carried out consistently and in good faith. …
One place to start is DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). Americans who favor a path to citizenship for those brought here as children, known as ‘dreamers,’ are not advocating open borders. They just recognize that young men and women who grew up in the United States, and who never knew any other place as home, are fundamentally American. And they ought not be punished for choices made by their parents.
2.39pm BST
The Guardian’s Jessica Glenza and agencies report:
At least eight people have been shot dead at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis and the suspected gunman has killed himself, police say.
Related: Indianapolis shooting: eight killed at FedEx facility
