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Biden: “Our commitment to Israel’s security is armored”
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, said on Wednesday that his country’s commitment to Israel’s security in the face of Iran’s threats “is armored.”
“As I have told Prime Minister (Benjamin) Netanyahu, our commitment to Israel’s security against the threats of Iran and its allied groups is armored,” Biden said during a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
“I say it again: armored. We are going to do everything we can to protect Israel’s security,” he added, referring to the threats made by Iran after Israel bombed its embassy in Damascus.
Biden and Kishida spoke at a meeting about the security of Israel but also about the war in the Gaza Strip, where both support the proposal for a truce that will alleviate the humanitarian crisis and the release of hostages from Hamas.
In addition, the US president again referred to the possibility of the United States changing its position regarding that conflict, just as Biden warned Netanyahu that it could happen if Israel continued with its current strategy.
“We will see what (Netanyahu) does in terms of fulfilling the commitments he made with me,” Biden said.
For his part, moments earlier, former US president and Republican pre-candidate Donald Trump (2017-2021) affirmed that Joe Biden has “totally” lost control of the Israeli situation.
“He has abandoned Israel, he has totally abandoned Israel,” he told the press upon his arrival in Atlanta (Georgia), where he is planning a fundraising act.
Trump considered that Biden “has no idea where he is or who he supports,” he considered that he is a person “with little intellectual capacity” and maintained that “any Jew who votes for a Democrat or votes for Biden should have his head examined.”
This same Wednesday, in the White House, Biden said that he is still negotiating a possible ceasefire between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas.
The day before, in an interview with Univision, the US president criticized the way of acting of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in Gaza in response to the attacks in Hamas on October 7, which has led to the occupation by force of almost the entire enclave, the destruction of homes and the death of more than 33,400 civilians.
“I think what you’re doing is a mistake. I don’t agree with his way of doing things,” he told the Latin American media.
Biden said in that intervention that what he requested “simply” is a ceasefire, that the Israelis allow access for the next six or eight weeks of food and medicine.
International
ICE arrests over 2,300 undocumented immigrants in Trump’s first week
n the first week of Republican Donald Trump’s presidency, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested at least 2,382 undocumented immigrants and issued 1,797 warrants for individuals eligible for deportation, according to its own figures.
On Sunday alone, there were 965 arrests and 554 warrants issued—a record for a single day—based on ICE data, which has been published daily since January 23 as part of Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
These arrests indicate that “there is probable cause to believe that the person arrested may be deported from the United States under federal immigration law,” the agency explained.
According to ICE, on January 25, there were 286 arrests and 421 detention orders issued. On January 24, 593 arrests were made, and 449 warrants were issued. On January 23, the total was 538 arrests and 373 warrants processed.
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ICE raid sparks outrage in Puerto Rico amid governor’s silence
Puerto Rico’s opposition parties condemned a federal raid against immigrants carried out by U.S. agents in San Juan and called for action from Governor Jenniffer González, who as of Monday had not commented on the matter.
This first raid on the island, a U.S. Commonwealth, comes shortly after González assured in an interview that Dominicans living in Puerto Rico could remain “calm.” “Whatever the president (Donald Trump) decides to do, he won’t be thinking about the Dominican community,” she stated.
Since yesterday, when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conducted a raid in Barrio Obrero, the heart of the Dominican community on the island, following Trump’s orders, the governor—who belongs to the New Progressive Party (PNP) and is a Republican—has remained silent.
“I urge the governor to clarify where her loyalties lie: whether with Trump and his clique of wealthy racists or with the defense of Puerto Ricans and our Dominican brothers on the island,” said Juan Dalmau, leader of the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) and former gubernatorial candidate, in a statement.
International
ELN stands firm against surrender after Petro halts peace negotiations
The National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group stated on Monday that it will not accept surrender or submission as a peace policy. This declaration comes after Colombian President Gustavo Petro suspended peace talks in response to the violence caused by the group in the Catatumbo region over the past 11 days.
“The ELN will never accept submission or surrender as a peace policy. ‘Total peace’ has been a policy of Petro that has given certain paramilitary groups and gangs a ‘political status’ to coordinate actions with the State and its armed forces,” said the ELN’s Central Command in a statement.
Clashes between the ELN and the 33rd Front of FARC dissidents in Catatumbo since January 16 have resulted in between 60 and 80 deaths, according to estimates by the Ombudsman’s Office and the Government of Norte de Santander.
However, authorities have only been able to recover 41 bodies due to ongoing challenges in accessing the most remote rural areas, where the violence persists.
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