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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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Articles

  • US immigration officials push for increased detentions, including ‘collateral’ arrests

    3 days 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

    6 days 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

    6 days 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

    1 week 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

    1 week 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.

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Jose Olivares @jlosc9
23 May 25

RT @MPaarlberg: I tell the @guardian: “This is collusion between two governments, the US and El Salvador, to cover up a gang pact by droppi…

Jose Olivares
Jose Olivares @jlosc9
23 May 25

RT @ReichlinMelnick: Here is a likely quid for the CECOT pro quo. Trump is dropping criminal charges against multiple serious MS-13 leaders…

Jose Olivares
Jose Olivares @jlosc9
22 May 25

RT @MPaarlberg: We are witnessing in real time a criminal conspiracy to cover up a gang deal on behalf of a foreign government by dropping…