AUSTIN — A Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot by a federal immigration agent in Texas had surgery Thursday to remove the bullet lodged in his back for nearly two weeks. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, had appeared in court in a wheelchair on Wednesday, wearing a sling on his arm. He remains in custody
US President Donald Trump has held talks with Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez at the UN General Assembly, their first face-to-face meeting since the White House backed her to take over the South American country’s government. Rodríguez succeeded Nicolás Maduro shortly after US forces conducted a raid on the Venezuelan capital Caracas and seized him.
The Trump administration has ramped up immigration enforcement efforts and arrests during Trump’s second term, sparking unrest across several US cities. The administration has defended its policies and the agency’s controversial tactics as necessary for public safety and to enact Trump’s campaign promise to secure the border and carry out mass deportations. The shooting in
In Minnesota, Castro faces separate charges of assault and false reporting of a crime related to the shooting. Castro was one of thousands of federal immigration officers deployed to the Midwestern state during Operation Metro Surge, which sparked fierce protests and resulted in the deaths of two US citizens at the hands of agents during
President Donald Trump on Friday said the U.S. has entered an agreement with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of the South American country’s oil reserves. Trump in a social media post announced the agreement he said was negotiated by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Venezuela’s interim President
Karina Blanco was about to start the spinning class she teaches when the earth began to shake. The tremors were getting stronger, so she grabbed her bag and ran out with everyone else. “When I realized the magnitude of this, I started screaming ‘my daughter, my daughter’. I sat in my car and drove as
