US Immigration Agents Linked to Spike in Shootings Under Trump Administration Crackdown
Federal immigration agents have been involved in a sharp rise in shootings in recent months, coinciding with the Trump administration’s expanded immigration enforcement efforts. Under Trump’s crackdown, immigration officers have been connected to 14 shootings, according to data compiled by the Trace, a non-profit newsroom focused on gun violence in the US. As of 7 January, it identified 28 incidents overall, including the 14 shootings. Since July, when the first shooting occurred under the administration, immigration agents have killed four people and injured five more.
The NYC Jail Holding Maduro Has a History of Big Names and Dangerous Conditions
Nicolás Maduro is being held in a New York City jail notorious for its high-profile inmates and dangerous conditions. The Metropolitan Detention Center, or MDC, a federal jail in Brooklyn, has struggled with issues of overcrowding, violence, medical neglect and inmate deaths in recent years — prompting several judges to refuse to send people there. One judge said he would vacate a 75-year-old’s tax fraud charges and place him under house arrest rather than send him to MDC, citing “inhumane treatment” at the facility. The other ordered a man convicted in a drug case to remain free until sentencing rather than wait in that particular facility.
Full List as Trump Announces Shock Move That Will See US Leave 66 Key International Organizations
U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from dozens of international and United Nations entities, claiming they “operate contrary to U.S. national interests.” The decision targets 35 non-UN groups and 31 UN entities, including a crucial climate treaty and a UN body promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment. Among these is the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, widely considered the “bedrock” climate treaty and parent agreement to the 2015 Paris climate deal.
Trump Says U.S. Oversight of Venezuela Could Last for Years
President Trump said that he expected the United States would be running Venezuela and extracting oil from its huge reserves for years, and insisted that the interim government of the country — all former loyalists to the now-imprisoned Nicolás Maduro — is “giving us everything that we feel is necessary.” Mr. Trump’s remarks came hours after administration officials said the United States plans to effectively assume control of selling Venezuela’s oil indefinitely, part of a three-phase plan that Secretary of State Marco Rubio outlined for members of Congress.