Jose Olivares

New York

Journalist and Producer at Freelance

Investigative journalist. Mexicano. Work in @guardian @theintercept @wnyc @DropSiteNews and others. Tips: [email protected]

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Ice arrests of migrants with no criminal history surging under Trump

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Jose Olivares |Will Craft

The federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency has exponentially increased the arrest and detention of immigrants without any criminal history since the second Trump administration took office, a data analysis by the Guardian shows. The information sharply contradicts Donald Trump’s claims the authorities are targeting “criminals” for deportation as part of his aggressive anti-immigration agenda.
US immigration officials push for increased detentions, including ‘collateral’ arrests

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Jose Olivares

Senior US immigration officials over the weekend instructed rank-and-file officers to “turn the creative knob up to 11” when it comes to enforcement, including by interviewing and potentially arresting people they called “collaterals”, according to internal agency emails viewed by the Guardian.
Vought says Trump may not need Congress’s approval to cut federal workforce

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Jose Olivares

Russell Vought, the director of the office of management and budget (OMB), on Sunday cast doubt on the constitutional obligation of the White House to ask Congress to sign off on Donald Trump’s massive cuts to the federal workforce spearheaded by Elon Musk.
Teen trans athlete at center of rightwing attacks wins track events in California

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Jose Olivares

A teenage transgender athlete in California, who has been at the center of widespread political attacks by rightwing pundits and the Trump administration, won in two track events over the weekend. The 16-year-old athlete, AB Hernandez, tied for first place alongside two other athletes in the high jump, and tied for first place in the triple jump. This comes as the Trump administration threatened to withhold federal funding from California for allowing trans athletes to compete in girls’ sports.
Bee-ware: truck carrying 250m honeybees overturns by US-Canada border

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Jose Olivares

Officials near the US border were abuzz after being relentlessly attacked on Friday morning by a swarm of fugitives: honeybees had escaped after a truck carrying hives overturned near the Canadian border. About 250m honeybees flew free of the truck around 4am a few miles south of Canada. The truck that was transporting around 70,000lbs of hives and honeybees rolled over on a road in north-western Washington state.
Undocumented man accused of making threat to Trump’s life may be victim of frame-up

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Jose Olivares

An undocumented man who was accused by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary, Kristi Noem, last week of threatening to assassinate Donald Trump in a letter may have been framed by someone accused of previously attacking the man, according to news reports. Investigators are said to be looking into whether the letter was an attempt to get the man deported, to prevent him from testifying against his alleged attacker.
Trump administration sets quota to arrest 3,000 people a day in anti-immigration agenda

4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Jose Olivares

The Trump administration has set aggressive new goals in its anti-immigration agenda, demanding that federal agents arrest 3,000 people a day – or more than a million in a year. The new target, tripling arrest figures from earlier this year, was delivered to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) leaders by Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, and Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary, in a strained meeting last week.
Jussie Smollett settles suit over alleged hate-crime hoax with $50,000 donation

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Jose Olivares

Jussie Smollett, the actor who claimed to be a victim of a 2019 hate crime but was later charged with having staged the attack, has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought against him by the city of Chicago with a donation to charity. The actor said on a post on Instagram that he made a $50,000 donation to the Building Brighter Futures Center for the Arts, a Chicago-based non-profit that works with art and city youth.
Man arrested for allegedly trying to firebomb US embassy office in Israel

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Jose Olivares

Federal officials say agents arrested a man on Sunday accused of attempting to firebomb the branch office of the US embassy in Israel, a justice department press release said. According to a news release from the US justice department, Joseph Neumayer – a dual US and German citizen – was arrested at John F Kennedy airport in New York after being deported by Israeli officials.
US police officer resigns after wrongfully arresting undocumented teen

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Jose Olivares

A Georgia police officer has resigned from his job after erroneously pulling over a teenager, causing her to spend more than two weeks in a federal immigration jail, and leaving her facing deportation. The officer, Leslie O’Neal, was employed at the police department in Dalton, a small city more than an hour north of Atlanta.

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