Afghan who says he worked for the US army is in ICE detention
CNN's Laura Coates speaks to the attorney of an Afghan man detained by ICE, who says he is seeking asylum after working for the US military as an interpreter in Afghanistan. The man says he is now wanted by the Taliban. DHS disputes the claim that the man assisted the US government.
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‘Abducted by Ice': the haunting missing-person posters plastered across LA
'Missing son.' 'Missing father.' 'Missing grandmother.' The words are written in bright red letters at the top of posters hanging on lampposts and storefronts around Los Angeles. At first glance, they appear to be from worried relatives seeking help from neighbors. But a closer look reveals that the missing people are immigrants to the US who have been disappeared by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice). Some of the faces are familiar to anyone who has been following the news – that missing father, for instance, is Kilmar Ábrego García, the Maryland man who was deported to El Salvador in March without a hearing, in what the Trump administration admitted was an error. 'Abducted by Ice,' the poster reads, under a picture of Ábrego García with his small son. 'Did not receive constitutional protections. Currently being held in detention.' The missing grandmother is Gladis Yolanda Chávez Pineda, a Chicago woman who was taken by Ice when she showed up for a check-in with immigration officials this month. She had arrived in the US seeking a better life for her daughter and was in the midst of applying for asylum. 'Lived in the US for 10 years,' the poster states. 'No criminal history.' The missing son is Andry Hernández Romero, a makeup artist who fled persecution in Venezuela. On arrival in the US, he was detained, with US authorities claiming his tattoos indicated gang membership. His family and friends say that's ridiculous. He was among hundreds of people deported to the El Salvador mega-prison known as Cecot in March. 'Currently being held in a concentration camp,' the poster says. The posters are just a few examples of a campaign of quiet resistance on the streets of Los Angeles. On Monday, a walk down Sunset Boulevard in the historic Silver Lake neighborhood meant encountering an array of flyers, artwork and spray-painted messages of support for disappeared immigrants and fury at the administration. The 'missing' posters, which have also appeared in other neighborhoods, were particularly effective. Duct-taped to telephone polls amid ads for comedy shows, guitar lessons and yard sales, they reminded passersby of the individual lives derailed by Trump's immigration crackdown – instead of names in the news, these were families and friends who might have lived just down the road. Humanizing people's stories was precisely the goal, said the creators behind the posters. 'I just wanted to reframe this idea of immigrants as criminals, and put into perspective that these are people – this is someone's grandmother, this is someone's father, this is someone's son,' said Ben*, the posters' 28-year-old designer. He worked with his friend Sebastian*, 31, to distribute them around town. What began as a friends-and-family effort expanded after Ben shared the PDF: 'I shared it with a few friends, then they shared it, and so it kind of just blew up.' For Sebastian, the issue was personal. 'I moved here from Colombia 14 years ago, and ever since the first Trump administration, I've seen my community being attacked,' he said. 'So as soon as I saw these posters that my friend was doing, that I felt something in me that needed to go out and help.' While they worked, 'people started taking photos, and I had a moment with this one elderly woman where she was looking at it, and she really just started tearing up,' Ben said. 'At that moment, I was like, 'OK, this is actually connecting to people.'' The images have appeared in recent days as the city has become a focal point for protests against Trump's immigration policies, which began on 6 June amid raids targeting immigrants at several locations in the city. As the protests emerged in parts of LA, Donald Trump called in the national guard without the governor's consent – an action no president has taken since 1965. Shortly afterward, he summoned hundreds of marines. Much news coverage painted the city as a kind of post-apocalyptic hellscape, with protesters facing off against troops and cars on fire, fueling Trump's narrative of a lawless city hopelessly embroiled in chaos. In fact, much of the unrest was confined to a small area of downtown LA. Across most of the vast city and county, life continued as normal, the sun shining over familiar traffic jams, studio lots and suburban sprawl. Still, the protests – and the federal government's wildly disproportionate clampdown – served as a spark that has helped to fuel a national outcry, as well as this subtler demonstration of local solidarity. Alongside the 'Missing' posters were a series of alternative descriptions of Ice – rather than Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, stenciled messages on the pavement and shop windows condemned 'Illegal Country-wide Embarrassment', 'Institution of Child Endangerment' and the perhaps less clear 'Insecure Confused Ejaculation'. Other flyers advertised Saturday's 'No Kings' protests, while still others noted that 'Undocumented hands feed you', with an illustration of a person working in a field. Those latter posters were created by Sydney*, 29, who works in the music industry in Los Angeles. Her 9-to-5 job makes it impossible to attend protests, she said, so creating this image was an alternative way to participate in resistance. 'You read something tragic every morning lately about the Ice raids,' she said. She was particularly moved by the plight of agricultural workers, toiling for low wages under the threat of immigration crackdowns. 'I just felt very compelled to speak up for them in places that people probably don't think about them, like Silver Lake and the city,' she said. 'I am Latina. I have many family members that came here and are immigrants, and so it just touches home for me.' Inspired by a slogan she saw in protest photos and Mexican decor flags, Sydney created the stylized image as a social media post. 'I just wanted to tie something beautiful with something very political and loud,' she said. A friend saw the post, asked if she could print it out, and plastered it around town. That DIY approach adds to the posters' power: there is a sense of neighbors helping neighbors. As the administration conjures a tale of a city in crisis, the images – unpretentious and haunting – serve as a reminder of what the protests are actually about. * The Guardian is withholding full names for privacy reasons
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Trump downplays signs of MAGA unrest over possible military strike on Iran
President Donald Trump appears to be downplaying talk that some of his long-loyal MAGA supporters are breaking with him over the possibility that the president will order a military strike on Iran. This amid the nearly week-long daily trading of fire between the Islamic State and Israel, America's top ally in the Middle East. "My supporters are more in love with me today, and I'm more in love with them, more than they even were at election time," the president said when asked about a GOP rift between some of his most vocal supporters of his America First agenda, and more traditional national security conservatives. The president, speaking to reporters on Wednesday on the South Lawn of the White House, added: "I may have some people that are a little bit unhappy now, but I have some people that are very happy, and I have people outside of the base that can't believe that this is happening. They're so happy." Click Here For Fox News Live Updates On The Israel-iran Attacks Asked if he would order an attack on Iran to prevent Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons, the president said, "I may do it, I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I'm going to do. I can tell you this, that Iran's got a lot of trouble." Read On The Fox News App The prospect of Trump jumping into the incredibly volatile situation in the Middle East is causing plenty of consternation among some of his top political and ideological allies, and creating divisions within MAGA - a rare moment for a movement that's been firmly supportive of Trump since his 2016 White House campaign. Trump Says Iran's 'Got A Lot Of Trouble' Some top MAGA voices over the past week have argued against any kind of U.S. military involvement with Israel against Iran, arguing it would contradict Trump's America First policy to keep the nation out of foreign wars. And they say it would repeat the move more than two decades ago by then-President George W. Bush to attack Iraq, which Trump had long criticized on the campaign trail. Among those speaking out have been conservative commentator Tucker Carlson and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a top Trump House ally. Also voicing concerns while remaining firmly supportive of the president are Charlie Kirk — the conservative host and MAGA-world figurehead who leads the influential Turning Point USA — and Steve Bannon, a prominent MAGA ally and former top adviser to Trump's 2016 campaign. But there's been plenty of support for Trump, and for attacking Iran, by other top MAGA world voices. Vance Defends Trump's Iran Position Amid 'Crazy Stuff On Social Media' Also defending Trump this week was Vice President JD Vance, who is a top voice in the America First, isolationist wing of the party. Vance, speaking to both sides, highlighted Tuesday in a social media post that "people are right to be worried about foreign entanglement after the last 25 years of idiotic foreign policy." But Vance stressed that Trump "has earned some trust on this issue." And the vice president added that "having seen this up close and personal, I can assure you that he is only interested in using American military to accomplish the American people's goals. Whatever he does, that is his focus." Trump, speaking with reporters on Wednesday afternoon, said: "I don't want to get involved either, but I've been saying for 20 years, maybe longer, that Iran can not have a nuclear weapon." Uss Nimitz Carrier Strike Group Sailing Toward Middle East Ahead Of Schedule, Us Official Says "My supporters are for me. My supporters are America First and Make America Great Again. My supporters don't want to see Iran have a nuclear weapon," the president added. The current debate within the Republican Party wouldn't have happened before Trump shook up and remade the GOP over the past decade. Wayne Lesperance, a veteran political scientist and the president of New England College, highlighted that "the divide in the GOP can be traced to Trump's promises to pull America back from its entanglements in the world." And Matthew Bartlett, a Republican strategist who served at the State Department during Trump's first term, noted that "Donald Trump changed the direction of the Republican Party" when it comes to American military engagements around the world. "That gave him a new coalition and new political power. This new war in the Middle East is certainly threatening that coalition. While we are not yet involved in a war, chances of escalation are dramatically increased and that certainly has ramifications with the MAGA coalition," Bartlett article source: Trump downplays signs of MAGA unrest over possible military strike on Iran
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Starmer warns of ‘real risk' in Middle East as Trump mulls bombing Iran
Sir Keir Starmer has urged Donald Trump to step back from military action against Iran which could deepen the crisis in the Middle East. The Prime Minister said there was a 'real risk of escalation' in the conflict as he urged all sides to seek a diplomatic outcome. He said there had previously been 'several rounds of discussions with the US' and 'that, to me, is the way to resolve this issue'. His comments came as Foreign Secretary David Lammy was taking the UK's plea for de-escalation to Washington where he will meet Mr Trump's top diplomat Marco Rubio. Mr Lammy and US secretary of state Mr Rubio will discuss the situation in the Middle East on Thursday evening.
