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George Clooney campaigns for Biden after criticizing his position on the ICC
Actor George Clooney is one of the last actors to join the campaign for the re-election of U.S. President Joe Biden, and will be present this week at a fundraising event together with actress Julia Roberts, according to several campaign sources.
This announcement comes after it was known last week that Clooney spoke to Biden’s team and criticized his Administration’s position on the International Criminal Court (ICC), which his wife, Amal Clooney, an expert in humanitarian law, advises on the case of the crisis in the Gaza Strip.
According to The New York Times, Clooney passed on his complaint to Steve Ricchetti, Biden’s advisor and who is responsible for campaign fundraising in the past.
Amal Clooney has been a key advisor to the ICC prosecutors in the case against Israel for the humanitarian impact of her offensive against Hamas in Gaza, which has caused more than 35,000 civilian casualties.
The White House has reiterated that it does not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC and considers “intolerable” the request for arrest warrants against the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, and does not consider it comparable to the actions of the Palestinian Hamas militia, whose leaders are also wanted by the Prosecutor’s Office.
This Saturday Clooney and actress Julia Roberts will participate in a campaign fundraising event in Los Angeles along with Biden and former President Barack Obama.
The event is organized by presenter Jimmy Kimmel, who will moderate a conversation with the president, will host the Hollywood elite in support of the Democrat’s re-election.
Despite the differences created by Biden’s position against the invasion of Gaza, which is costing him support in the most progressive wing, the president has a lot of support among Hollywood celebrities, who have already shown their support on several occasions with fundraising parties and campaign messages.
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.
International
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.
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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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