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Nicaragua bloquea ruta clave utilizada por migrantes cubanos para llegar a EEUU
Por MEGAN JANETSKY
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — Nicaragua bloqueó el domingo la entrada de cubanos al país sin visa, cortando de hecho una ruta clave para la migración desde Cuba a Estados Unidos en un momento en que Washington ha puesto a la isla caribeña bajo un estrangulamiento económico.
El gobierno nicaragüense le confirmó a The Associated Press que suspendió una exención que les permitía a los cubanos ingresar a la nación centroamericana sin visa.
Con esta medida, de hecho queda cortado el acceso de los cubanos a un país que durante mucho tiempo ha actuado como un puente para los migrantes caribeños que viajan a Estados Unidos. Durante años, los migrantes cubanos volaban a Nicaragua y se encontraban con traficantes, quienes luego los ayudaban a migrar hacia el norte a través de Centroamérica y México para llegar a la frontera estadounidense.
Expertos dicen que Nicaragua mantuvo sus puertas abiertas a personas de países como Cuba y Haití, una medida contra su añejo adversario Estados Unidos para convertir en arma a los migrantes que huyen de los problemas en sus países.
Pero el cambio llega en medio de creciente presión del gobierno del presidente estadounidense Donald Trump sobre las naciones latinoamericanas con el fin de que se alineen con su visión para el hemisferio, especialmente en temas como la migración y la seguridad.
Después de que una operación militar de Estados Unidos depusiera al presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro en enero, el gobierno de Trump comenzó a intensificar la presión, particularmente sobre gobiernos adversarios como Cuba y Nicaragua.
A finales de enero, Trump amenazó con imponer aranceles a los países que suministran petróleo a Cuba, empujando a la isla a una crisis económica y energética aún más profunda que probablemente azuzará aún más la migración desde una nación de la que han salido cifras récord de personas en los últimos años.
En un momento en que el gobierno de Trump lleva a cabo una polémica represión migratoria y elimina en gran medida el acceso al asilo a lo largo de la frontera sur, la migración a Estados Unidos ha alcanzado mínimos históricos, pero las nuevas reglas en Nicaragua pondrían barreras extremas para los migrantes cubanos que esperan llegar a territorio estadounidense en el futuro.
Una opción que aún está disponible es Guyana, una pequeña nación sudamericana a la que también han viajado cubanos para llegar a Estados Unidos. Desde Guyana, los migrantes cubanos suelen viajar a través de la peligrosa selva del Darién que divide Colombia y Panamá, y después siguen avanzando a través del continente americano.
En el pasado, migrantes con pocas opciones disponibles también han realizado precarios viajes en bote desde Cuba hasta la costa de Florida.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
America’s Record Health Spending Explained In 5 Charts
America’s Record Health Spending Explained In 5 Charts
Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times,
U.S. health care spending reached $5.3 trillion in 2024, according to recently released data from the Department of Health and Human Services.
That includes all health spending through federal and state health programs like Medicare and Medicaid, money paid by individuals to health insurers and providers, spending by employers, and payments made by insurance companies.
Here’s a look at the overall picture of America’s health spending and what that means for consumers and taxpayers.
The United States spends more on health care than any nation in the world.
That’s true whether as a gross amount, a per-capita average of $15,474, or a share of the national economy, 18 percent.
And the amount keeps growing. Per capita health care spending has grown every year since 2000, rising at 77 percent higher than inflation.
Health care is the largest industry in the United States by total spending and employment.
Health care, grouped with social services by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employed more people than any other industry and was one of the fastest growing U.S. industries.
About $18 of every $100 spent in the United States went to pay for health care in 2024. That’s more than was spent on housing ($12), groceries ($5), national defense ($4), or cars ($3).
Health care spending rose 7.2 percent in 2024, but health care prices accounted for less than half of the increase.
Those prices rose 2.5 percent, which was below the overall inflation rate of 2.9 percent that year.
Most of the increase was due to increased cost or use of other goods and services, the increased demand for medical services, and changes in the population.
The overall demand for medical services increased and was the most significant reason for increased spending, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Americans spent $768 billion on non-medical expenses in 2024, about 15 percent of health care spending.
Most health care funding is provided by individuals through out-of-pocket payments, health insurance premiums, taxes used to fund government health care programs, or money paid by employers to health insurers in lieu of employee wages.
Most of the money flows through other hands, which include the federal government, state governments, and employers.
President Donald Trump and some Republicans in Congress have proposed placing more discretion for health care spending in the hands of consumers, for example by providing funded health savings accounts to individuals rather than paying subsidies directly to insurance companies.
Democrats, whose legislative and policy proposals generally favor controlling costs through increased regulation and subsidies, have so far opposed that idea.
Health care spending accounted for more than a quarter (27 percent) of all federal spending in 2024 and was the largest spending category.
The cost of health care is the greatest financial worry for Americans, according to recent polling from health policy research group KFF.
Two-thirds of Americans (66 percent) said they worried about being able to afford insurance premiums and medical bills. Health expenses were a greater concern than paying for utilities, food, housing, and gas.
More than half (55 percent), said their health care costs had increased in the past year.
Tyler Durden
Sun, 02/08/2026 – 17:30
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/americas-record-health-spending-explained-5-charts
Ilia Malinin’s stunning free skate secures US figure skating team gold at Milan Cortina Olympics
MILAN — Ilia Malinin beat Japanese rival Shun Sato in a head-to-head showdown at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Sunday night, helping the U.S. defend its team figure skating gold medal by breaking a deadlock with Japan in the final session of the competition.
The 21-year-old nicknamed the “Quad God” landed five quadruple jumps and scored 200.03 points for his free skate, atoning for his mediocre short program — at least by his lofty standards — one night earlier. Sato followed him with three quads in his program, but he could only manage 194.86 points, leaving the Japanese with a second straight silver medal in the team event.
The U.S. ended up on 69 points while Japan finished with 68. Matteo Rizzo delivered one of the best free skates of his career as Italy was trying to hold onto the bronze medal, allowing the host nation to finish third with 60 points.
Georgia wound up fourth with 56. It has still never medaled in any sport at the Winter Games.
The U.S. had a five-point lead over Japan after two days of competition. But the advantage dwindled to nothing when world champions Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara won the pairs free skate and Kaori Sakamoto won the women’s free skate earlier Sunday night.
Leave it to the best closer in the business to deliver for the Americans.
Malinin opened with a big quad flip, opted for a safer triple axel over his quad, and overcame a couple of mistakes along the way to finish with aplomb. The son of Olympic skaters Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov ended with back-to-back combos, a quad toe-triple flip and a quad salchow-triple axel, leaving a crowd full of American and Japanese fans roaring in approval.
Sato did everything he could to give Japan a chance.
From his opening quad lutz to his finishing triple lutz, the Japanese star was nearly perfect, producing an easier but cleaner program than Malinin had earlier. He pumped his fist the moment his music ended, then had to wait to hear whether it was enough.
It wasn’t quite.
The pairs were first on the ice Sunday night, and Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shea delivered the best free skate of their pairs career when the U.S. needed it the most, beating the Canadians to avoid dropping a much-needed point to the winning Japanese pairs team.
Kam and O’Shea scored 135.36 points for their program, which opened with “Sweet Dreams” by the Eurythmics and finished with “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” by Tears for Fears. Miura and Kihara won the segment with a career-best of their own of 155.55 points, pulling the Japanese to within two points of the Americans with two events remaining.
“We couldn’t be more proud to be able to perform under what we felt was so much energy,” said the 34-year-old O’Shea, who was an Olympic alternate in 2018 but is making his debut at the Winter Games. “We walked into the day, walked into the rink with positive emotions, with an offensive attitude, and that showed out there on the ice.”
Then the women took the stage with the U.S. swapping out world champion Alysa Liu for Amber Glenn.
The three-time national champion spun out of her opening triple axel, the most difficult triple jump and one only she tried among the women, and Glenn had to add a late double toe loop after missing an earlier triple as part of a combination. Those two mistakes, and a couple of other errors along the way, left her with 138.62 points — and more crucially, third in the segment.
Kaori Sakamoto, the individual bronze medalist at the Beijing Games, won the free skate with 148.62 points, pulling Japan into a tie for the lead. Anastasiia Gubanova took second in the free skate as she tried to keep Georgia in the race for bronze.
“It wasn’t how I wanted to feel,” Glenn said afterward. “The adrenaline was really up and I think I just crashed a little bit.”
Malinin was there to pick her and the rest of the American team up.
Stuani entra para cobrar penal tardío y falla en el empate de Girona con Sevilla
Por TALES AZZONI
MADRID (AP) — Sevilla y Girona empataron 1-1 en un partido de la liga española que se trasladó al domingo debido al mal tiempo y el delantero de Girona, Cristhian Stuani, entró al partido solo para ejecutar un penal cerca del final y que falló.
El partido estaba programado para jugarse el sábado, pero la liga lo pospuso un día debido a una alerta de tormenta severa en la ciudad sureña de Sevilla.
Girona tomó la delantera a los dos minutos del partido con un gol de Thomas Lemar. Los anfitriones finalmente igualaron con un disparo de larga distancia al ángulo superior de Kike Salas en el segundo tiempo de descuento.
Seis minutos después, Girona perdió la oportunidad de volver a ponerse al frente cuando contuvieron el penal de Stuani.
El entrenador de Girona, Míchel, mandó a la cancha a Stuani para ejecutar el penal y el veterano uruguayo disparó a ras y que fue detenido por el portero de Sevilla, Odysseas Vlachodimos.
Los medios españoles dijeron que Stuani no había fallado un penal en un partido de liga en tres años.
El resultado dejó al Girona en el 12mo lugar, un punto por delante del Sevilla, que está en el 13er lugar. Girona no ha ganado en tres partidos consecutivos de liga.
El partido en casa del Rayo Vallecano contra el Oviedo el sábado fue pospuesto con poca antelación debido a preocupaciones de seguridad sobre el campo en el Estadio de Vallecas.
Otros resultados
Athletic Bilbao venció 4-2 al Levante, que jugó con diez hombres, en un partido con cuatro goles anotados después de minuto 80.
Athletic tenía una ventaja de dos goles al descanso, pero el Levante se acercó al 81 antes de que los anfitriones hicieran el 3-1 al 86. Levante anotó nuevamente cuatro minutos después del tiempo de descuento, y Athletic amplió la ventaja en el noveno minuto del tiempo añadido.
Levante, penúltimo en la clasificación, jugó con un hombre menos a los 17 minutos cuando Alan Matturro fue expulsado con tarjeta roja directa.
Athletic, que se encuentra en el décimo lugar, no había ganado en seis partidos consecutivos de liga, con su última victoria sobre el Atlético de Madrid en diciembre.
Getafe, que es undécimo, puso fin a una racha de nueve partidos sin ganar en todas las competiciones al vencer 2-0 al Alavés, que está en el 14to lugar.
El Atlético de Madrid, en tercer lugar, recibe más tarde al Real Betis, que está en quinto quinto, y el Real Madrid visita al Valencia, buscando volver a estar a un punto del líder Barcelona.
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Breezy Johnson gana el primer oro de EEUU en los Olímpicos de Invierno tras caída de Lindsey Vonn
Por KEN MAGUIRE
MILÁN (AP) — El accidente. Los jadeos. El helicóptero.
La aterradora caída de Lindsey Vonn en el descenso femenino de los Juegos Olímpicos de Milán-Cortina no pudo evitar eclipsar la hazaña de su compañera de equipo de Estados Unidos, Breezy Johnson, quien ganó la primera medalla de oro de su país en estos Juegos.
La victoria de Johnson el domingo en Cortina no fue la historia de regreso olímpico que todos esperaban. La atención estaba en Vonn, quien buscaba el oro a pesar de tener un desgarro en el ligamento anterior cruzado izquierdo. Incluso cuando Johnson estaba sentada en la caja de líderes a punto de asegurar su primera medalla de oro olímpica, sus emociones oscilaron de la anticipación a la angustia cuando Vonn cayó.
“Fue uno de los momentos más desgarradores de mi vida”, expresó Johnson.
Aun así, Johnson, de 30 años, se convirtió en la segunda mujer estadounidense en ganar el descenso olímpico —Vonn lo ganó en 2010— y lo logró después de sus propias preocupaciones por lesiones, así como un veto de 14 meses por violar las reglas de “paradero” en lo que respecta a las pruebas de dopaje.
Dijo que a veces “solo tienes que seguir adelante porque esa es la única opción”.
Jugadores de la NHL llegan a Milán
Cinco aviones chárter con jugadores de la NHL —incluido Sidney Crosby de Canadá— llegaron a Milán el domingo por la mañana desde el Aeropuerto Internacional John F. Kennedy de Nueva York. Estos son los primeros Juegos Olímpicos con jugadores de la NHL desde Sochi en 2014.
Suecia fue el primero de los equipos compuestos casi exclusivamente por jugadores de la NHL en tomar el hielo para practicar en el Milano Santagiulia Arena, seguido por Estados Unidos, República Checa, Canadá y Finlandia.
El torneo masculino de 12 equipos comienza el miércoles. Estados Unidos y Canadá son los grandes favoritos, y ambos equipos inician sus campañas el jueves. Los estadounidenses enfrentan a Letonia. Canadá juega contra la República Checa.
Finlandia es el campeón defensor, pero Canadá ha ganado las últimas dos ediciones con jugadores de la NHL.
Ledecka da la mala sorpresa en el snowboard
No fue sorpresa que una corredora checa ganara el slalom gigante paralelo de snowboard el domingo en Livigno. La sorpresa fue que no fue Ester Ledecka.
Ledecka, quien intentaba convertirse en la primera snowboarder en ganar medallas de oro en tres Juegos Olímpicos consecutivos, perdió su carrera de cuartos de final por 0,06 segundos ante la austriaca Sabine Payer.
La medalla de oro fue para su compañera, Zuzana Maderova, de 22 años, quien ganó su primer evento importante. Payer se llevó la medalla de plata. La italiana Lucia Dalmasso ganó el bronce.
Ledecka no había perdido una carrera de la Copa del Mundo de PGS en casi dos años.
Madrugada en Italia para el Super Bowl
Hay mucho interés aquí en el Super Bowl, incluso si el juego comienza el lunes a las 12:30 de la mañana en Italia. Un par de pubs deportivos en Milán dijeron el domingo que están completamente reservados y rechazarán a quienes lleguen sin reserva. Los New England Patriots se enfrentan a los Seattle Seahawks en Santa Clara, California.
Unos días antes de competir en el descenso femenino del domingo, la esquiadora estadounidense Jacqueline Wiles señaló que es una “gran, gran fan” de los Seahawks. Nativa de Portland, Oregón, Wiles terminó empatada en el cuarto lugar el domingo, quedándose a las puertas de una medalla de bronce.
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US Olympians speaking up about politics at home face online backlash — including from Donald Trump
MILAN — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said that it is hard to cheer for American Olympians who are speaking out against administration policies, calling one such critic “a real Loser” who perhaps should have stayed home.
It was the latest and most prominent example of U.S. Olympians at the Milan Cortina Games inviting online backlash with their words.
Reporters on Friday asked U.S. athletes at a news conference how they feel representing the country during the Trump administration’s heightened immigration enforcement actions. Freestyle skier Hunter Hess replied that he had mixed emotions since he doesn’t agree with the situation, and that he is in Milan competing on behalf of everyone who helped get him to The Games.
“If it aligns with my moral values, I feel like I’m representing it,” Hess said. “Just because I’m wearing the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the U.S.”
Among those who piled on Hess were YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul.
“From all true Americans If you don’t want to represent this country go live somewhere else,” he wrote on X, where he has 4.4 million followers. Minutes later, he was photographed sitting beside U.S. Vice President JD Vance at the U.S women’s hockey game in Olympic host city Milan.
Trump said the next day that Hess’ comments make it hard to root for him.
“Hess, a real Loser, says he doesn’t represent his Country in the current Winter Olympics. If that’s the case, he shouldn’t have tried out for the Team, and it’s too bad he’s on it,” he wrote on his Truth Social account.
Hess wasn’t the only athlete voicing discontent — or facing blowback
At Friday’s news conference with the athletes, freestyle skier Chris Lillis referenced Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying he’s “heartbroken” about what is happening in the U.S.
“I think that, as a country, we need to focus on respecting everybody’s rights and making sure that we’re treating our citizens as well as anybody, with love and respect,” Lillis said. “I hope that when people look at athletes compete in the Olympics, they realize that that’s the America that we’re trying to represent.”
And U.S. figure skater Amber Glenn said the LGBTQ+ community has had a hard time during the Trump administration.
In addition to Paul, conservative figures criticizing the athletes on social media include former NFL quarterback Brett Favre, actor Rob Schneider and U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds — who Trump has endorsed for the Florida gubernatorial race in November. And there was a flood of vitriol directed at them from ordinary Americans.
Glenn posted on Instagram that she had received “a scary amount of hate / threats for simply using my voice WHEN ASKED about how I feel.” She added that she will start limiting her social media use for her well-being.
In response to questions from The Associated Press, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee said in a statement Sunday that it is aware of an increasing amount of abusive and harmful messages directed toward the athletes and was doing its best to remove content and report credible threats to law enforcement.
“The USOPC stands firmly behind Team USA athletes and remains committed to their well-being and safety, both on and off the field of play,” it said.
Anti-ICE protests in Italy
Support for the U.S. abroad has eroded as the Trump administration has pursued an aggressive posture on foreign policy, including punishing tariffs, military action in Venezuela and threats to invade Greenland.
During the opening ceremony, Team USA athletes were cheered on, but jeers and whistles could be heard as Vance and his wife, second lady Usha Vance, were shown on the stadium screens, waving American flags from the tribune.
In Milan, several demonstrations have broken out against the against the local deployment of ICE agents — even after clarification that they are from an investigations unit that is completely separate from the enforcement unit at the forefront of the immigration crackdown in the U.S.
Homeland Security Investigations, an ICE unit that focuses on cross-border crimes, frequently sends its officers to overseas events like the Olympics to assist with security. The ICE arm seen in the streets of the U.S. is known as Enforcement and Removal Operations, and there is no indication its officers were sent to Italy.
A demonstration on Saturday featured thousands of protesters. Toward its end, a small number of them clashed with police, who fired tear gas and a water cannon. That followed another one last week, when hundreds protested the deployment of ICE agents.
Associated Press writer Graham Dunbar contributed to this report.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/08/us-olympians-politics-at-home/
Wizards esperan que Anthony Davis regrese esta temporada
Por IAN NICHOLAS QUILLEN
WASHINGTON (AP) — El gerente general de los Wizards de Washington, Will Dawkins, dijo el domingo que espera que Anthony Davis regrese a la cancha esta temporada, pero que el cronograma se aclarará durante el receso por el Juego de Estrellas.
Las declaraciones de Dawkins se produjeron un día después de que The Athletic informara que los Wizards probablemente dejarían fuera por el resto de la campaña al alero, diez veces All-Star, citando a una fuente de la liga que no nombraron.
Washington adquirió a Davis —quien ha estado recuperándose de un esguince en el dedo de su mano no dominante desde el 8 de enero— antes de la fecha límite de traspasos del jueves como la pieza central de un acuerdo de ocho jugadores con Dallas. Su cronograma inicial de regreso esperado era de seis semanas.
“El plan para AD en este momento es regresar a Dallas y terminar su rehabilitación”, dijo Dawkins. “Durante el receso del Juego de Estrellas tiene otra cita con un médico. Y esa es una cita importante para nosotros para ver cómo va su progreso”.
Los Wizards (14-37) llegaron al juego del domingo contra Miami en el penúltimo lugar de la Conferencia Este, pero con un plantel potencialmente mucho más competitivo de cara a la próxima temporada.
Washington también adquirió al cuatro veces All-Star Trae Young de Atlanta en enero. Y a pesar de ambos acuerdos, retuvieron la mayor parte de un núcleo joven que incluye al alero de segundo año Alex Sarr y al base novato Tre Johnson.
Young ha estado fuera con un esguince en la rodilla y también será reevaluado durante el receso, dijo Dawkins.
“Todavía está trabajando en la cancha”, dijo Dawkins. “Comenzó a hacer uno contra 0, comenzó a hacer un poco más de acciones de dos contra dos. … Está avanzando en una dirección positiva.”
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/08/wizards-esperan-que-anthony-davis-regrese-esta-temporada/
Al menos 30 muertos en choque de camión con pasajeros en el norte de Nigeria
KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Un camión que transportaba pasajeros se estrelló en el norte de Nigeria debido a conducción imprudente, lo que dejó al menos 30 muertos y varios heridos, informaron autoridades el domingo.
El tractocamión circulaba por una carretera en el poblado de Kwanar Barde, en el área de gobierno local de Gezawa en el estado de Kano, cuando perdió el control, según un comunicado de la oficina del gobernador de Kano.
Los accidentes de tránsito son frecuentes en el país más poblado de África, en parte debido a las malas condiciones de las carreteras y la aplicación laxa de las leyes de tráfico.
El camión involucrado en el choque más reciente transportaba a pasajeros y mercancías hacia la ciudad de Gujungu en Kano cuando se estrelló el domingo en la madrugada.
Los heridos, muchos de ellos con lesiones graves, están recibiendo atención médica en diferentes hospitales, según el comunicado emitido por Sunusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, portavoz del gobernador de Kano, Abba Kabir Yusuf.
“El gobernador describió el incidente como desgarrador y una gran pérdida, no sólo para las familias afectadas, sino para todo el pueblo del estado de Kano”, añadió el comunicado.
Tras el choque, las autoridades volvieron a exhortar a que se acaten las normas de tránsito, y amenazaron con aplicar severos castigos a los infractores.
En diciembre, el campeón británico de peso pesado Anthony Joshua resultó herido y sus dos socios cercanos murieron cuando su conductor chocó contra un camión estacionado en la autopista Lagos-Ibadan, que conecta el estado de Ogun con Lagos. Las autoridades indicaron que el conductor iba a exceso de velocidad, y lo acusaron de manejo peligroso.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
ICE Urges Newsom Not To Release 33,179 Criminal Illegal Immigrants Into Communities
ICE Urges Newsom Not To Release 33,179 Criminal Illegal Immigrants Into Communities
Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times,
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have requested the state of California and Gov. Gavin Newsom not to release over 33,000 criminal illegal immigrants with ICE detainers back into the streets, ICE said in a Feb. 6 statement.
ICE detainers are requests to state, local, or federal law enforcement to notify ICE before releasing a removable immigrant. A detainer can also request that an immigrant be held for 48 more hours beyond their scheduled release date to allow DHS time to take custody. The request is sent to prisons and other confinement facilities.
California’s failure to honor ICE detainers has resulted in the release of 4,561 criminal illegal immigrants since Jan. 20, ICE said in its statement.
“There are currently 33,179 aliens in the custody of a California jurisdiction with active detainers. The crimes of these aliens include 399 homicides, 3,313 assaults, 3,171 burglaries, 1,011 robberies, 8,380 dangerous drugs offenses, 1,984 weapons offenses, and 1,293 sexual predatory offenses.”
Some of the illegal immigrants already released from California jails into communities include a Mexican national arrested for lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age, a Chinese national arrested for sexual battery, a Mexican national who has been arrested for a sex offender violation, and a Guatemalan convicted of first-degree murder.
DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin accused Newsom and other “sanctuary politicians” in the state of putting American lives at risk by releasing criminals into neighborhoods.
“Criminal illegal aliens should not be released from jails back onto our streets to terrorize more innocent Americans. If we work together, we can make America safe again. 7 of the 10 safest cities in the U.S. cooperate with ICE law enforcement,” McLaughlin said.
Newsom has defended California’s sanctuary policies. California’s Senate Bill 54 prohibits state and local law enforcement from using their money or personnel to investigate, detain, or arrest people for immigration enforcement purposes, the governor told conservative commentator Ben Shapiro in a Jan. 16 podcast.
However, California cooperates with federal immigration enforcement under certain circumstances, Newsom said.
“We have over 10,000 that I’ve cooperated with since I’ve been governor of California,” he said. “California has cooperated with more ICE transfers probably than any other state in the country. And I vetoed multiple pieces of legislation that have come from my legislature to stop the ability for the state of California to do that.”
ICE Administrative Warrants
ICE acting Director Todd Lyons sent a letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Feb. 4 regarding the arrest of immigrants in their homes in the state. The letter focused on administrative warrants used by ICE to arrest aliens.
Administrative warrants, also known as ICE warrants, allow immigration officers to arrest and detain a foreign national. Unlike judicial warrants issued in criminal cases, administrative warrants do not require a neutral magistrate. Instead, an officer must establish probable cause to believe the illegal immigrant is removable from the United States.
A 2024 ruling from a California district court held that entering the land surrounding a home to arrest the occupant violated the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act.
In the letter, Lyons highlighted a 2007 judgment from the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit that supported the use of administrative warrants to arrest “aliens with final orders of removal in their place of residence.”
“An alien subject to a final order of removal has a diminished reasonable expectation of privacy when federal officers arrive with a valid administrative warrant and reasonable cause to believe he or she is in a residence,” the ICE acting director wrote.
Lyons highlighted that an alien with a final order for removal has generally undergone proceedings in which an immigration judge has determined that the individual is removable from the United States. This neutral immigration judge also ensures the foreign national receives all necessary protections under the U.S. Constitution.
As such, “ICE officers may enter an alien’s residence with a final order of removal and an administrative warrant. No community serious about keeping its residents safe will tolerate a clear aberration of the law,” Lyons wrote.
“ICE and the American people once again demand California honor ICE detainers to take the worst of the worst off the streets and make America safe again.”
The Epoch Times reached out to Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta for comment, but did not receive a response by publication time.
Tyler Durden
Sun, 02/08/2026 – 16:20
Israel’s security cabinet approves measures to strengthen control over the West Bank
JERUSALEM — Israel’s security cabinet on Sunday approved measures that aim to deepen Israeli control over the occupied West Bank and weaken the already limited powers of the Palestinian Authority.
The office of far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in a statement announced the decisions that would make it easier for Jewish settlers to force Palestinians to give up land, adding that “we will continue to bury the idea of a Palestinian state.”
Yonatan Mizrachi, a researcher with the Israeli anti-settlement watchdog group Peace Now, called the decision “very significant.” He said the decision still requires approval by Israel’s top commander for the West Bank.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a statement called the decision “dangerous” and an “open Israeli attempt to legalize settlement expansion” and land confiscation. He called for the United States and U.N. Security Council to intervene immediately.
Jordan’s foreign ministry condemned the decision, which it said was “aimed at imposing illegal Israeli sovereignty” and entrenching settlements.
The measures include canceling a prohibition on sales of West Bank land to Israeli Jews, declassifying West Bank land registry records to ease land acquisition, transferring construction planning at religious and other sensitive sites in the volatile city of Hebron to Israeli authorities, and allowing Israeli enforcement of environmental and archaeological matters in Palestinian-administered areas.
The measures also would revive a committee that would allow the state of Israel to make “proactive” land purchases in the territory — “a step intended to guarantee land reserves for settlement for generations to come.”
Peace Now in an explainer issued late Sunday called the decision aimed at “breaking through every possible barrier on the way to a massive land grab in the West Bank.” Notably, it said, Israeli authorities will be able to demolish construction in Palestinian-controlled areas if they deem it harmful to heritage or the environment.
The West Bank is divided between an Israeli-controlled section where settlements are located and sections equaling 40% of the territory where the Palestinian Authority has autonomy.
Palestinians are not permitted to sell land privately to Israelis. Settlers can buy homes on land controlled by Israel’s government.
Asked about settlers’ claims that the current system is discriminatory against Jews, Mizrachi said the entire system in the West Bank discriminates against Palestinians, who are not allowed to vote in Israeli elections and face Israeli military crackdowns and travel restrictions.
More than 700,000 Israelis live in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories captured by Israel in 1967 and sought by the Palestinians for a future state. The international community overwhelmingly considers Israeli settlement construction in these areas to be illegal and an obstacle to peace.
Smotrich, previously a firebrand settler leader and now finance minister, has been granted cabinet-level authority over settlement policies and vowed to double the settler population in the West Bank.
Settler group Regavim in a statement praised Sunday’s decision, saying it would protect heritage sites in the West Bank and “at long last” make land registry accessible and transparent.
In December, Israel’s Cabinet approved a proposal for 19 new Jewish settlements in the West Bank as the government pushes ahead with a construction binge that further threatens the possibility of a Palestinian state. And Israel has cleared the final hurdle before starting construction on a contentious settlement project near Jerusalem that would effectively cut the West Bank in two, according to a government tender reported in January.
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