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Trump bets in Las Vegas on the Latin vote to give the definitive blow to Biden
Former Republican President Donald Trump (2017-2021) bet on Sunday for Latino voters in an electoral rally in Las Vegas dedicated to this community in which he charged the migrants who are arriving by the southern border and of those who he said “are hurting” the economy of Latinos who already live in the United States.
Trump insisted that the situation on the southern border is “unsustainable” and accused President Joe Biden of having created a “crisis” and pointed out that the asylum restrictions announced by the president last Tuesday “mean nothing.”
“If Joe Biden wanted to sign an executive order to stop the invasion, all he should do is say: ‘Here I reinstitute all the border policies of someone named Donald Trump,’” the former president said in front of the attendees who met in Sunset Park at a temperature of about 38 degrees Celsius.
As he did since 2016, Trump used anti-immigrant rhetoric and criticized directly with the people who arrive at the southern border by assuring that they are hurting the “American Latins,” as he refers to the members of this community who have a legal status in the country.
He also falsely stated that migrants who enter irregularly “are taking 100 percent of the new jobs. “They are hurting our families, they are destroying our black population, they are destroying our Hispanic population, and they know that more they are destroying our unions,” the president said.
Trump took advantage of today’s event to rename the campaign focused on the Hispanic and Latin community that went from being called Latinos for Trump to Latin American for Trump, the change was made to emphasize that Latinos are Americans, Jaime Florez, director of Hispanic communications of Trump’s campaign, told Efe.
Nevada has become an elusive state for Republicans since 2008, when former President Barack Obama (2009-2017) won the state comfortably, something that in 2020 cost Biden when he won by about 34,000 votes, or 2.4 percentage points in favor.
Érika Castro, organizer of the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada fund, explained to EFE that the votes of the Latino community helped Biden win Nevada, considered a hinge state.
But the situation seems to be changing, for the moment, the polls are being decanted in Nevada in favor of Trump. According to the average of polls on the FiveThirtyEight website, it is five percentage points ahead, with 45% of the voting intentions.
A recent survey by the New York Times/Siena College showed that Trump is gaining support among Latinos with 36% who said he would vote for him compared to 26% who said he would vote for Biden.
The young people of Nevada are also leaning in favor of Trump, an example of this are Puerto Ricans Gustavo and Elena, 24 and 26 years old, respectively, the brothers who resided in Nevada more than a decade ago believe that the former president represents “a good future” for the country, they told EFE.
The same arguments were expressed by Guatemalan Mary Gutiérrez, 50, who came from San Bernardino (California) with her family to attend Trump’s rally.
The immigrant told EFE that Trump’s defeat in 2020 prompted her to become a citizen and that the former president will count on her vote and that of her family. This morning the Gutiérrez family arrived at five in the morning to line up early and be able to secure a seat near the podium and express their support to close the border.
“Someone has to put this situation in order and I think that immigrants who come to not comply with the rules should be deported,” Gutiérrez said.
At the end of the speech, Gutiérrez said she was excited about the Republican’s promises to secure the border, lower taxes and revitalize the economy.
Trump concluded his rally by inviting attendees to vote in the primaries that Nevada holds next Tuesday, June 11, in which he will surely be elected as the Republican candidate, despite the fact that the party’s statutes in this state specify that no convicted person can be elected as a candidate.
International
El Chapo’s son Joaquín Guzmán López pleads guilty to U.S. drug trafficking charges
Joaquín Guzmán López, one of the sons of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, pleaded guilty on Monday to drug trafficking charges in a U.S. court, months after his brother Ovidio reached a similar plea agreement, according to local media reports.
The defendant appeared before a federal court in Chicago early Monday afternoon and changed his previous plea in the case, the Chicago Tribune reported. U.S. authorities accuse him of forming, together with his three brothers, the cartel faction known as “Los Chapitos.”
The group is believed to have continued the operations of El Chapo, who has been serving a life sentence in the United States since 2019.
Guzmán López, 39, was arrested after landing in Texas in a small aircraft alongside cartel co-founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada.
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Venezuela authorizes return flights as U.S. continues deportations amid rising tensions
The arrival of U.S. aircraft carrying undocumented Venezuelan migrants continued regularly despite rising tensions between Washington and Caracas over President Donald Trump’s military deployment in the Caribbean.
Trump maintains that the deployment is part of an anti-narcotics operation, while Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro insists the true objective is to remove him from power and seize the nation’s oil resources.
Venezuela’s aviation authority has “received a request from the United States government to resume repatriation flights for Venezuelan migrants from that country to Venezuela,” the Ministry of Transportation said in a statement .
“Under the instructions of President Nicolás Maduro, authorization has been granted for these aircraft to enter our airspace,” it added.
Caracas will permit two Eastern Airlines flights to land on Wednesday and Friday.
Migration remains one of the Trump administration’s flagship issues. On Monday, the U.S. president held a meeting with his National Security Council to discuss the situation in Venezuela, a day after confirming he had spoken with Maduro by phone, without offering further details.
According to the Venezuelan government, roughly 75 deportation flights have been carried out this year, returning at least 13,956 Venezuelans from the United States.
International
20,000 rounds stolen from german army after driver leaves cargo unattended
The German army confirmed the theft of a shipment of ammunition that occurred a week ago while it was being transported by a civilian delivery driver, a military spokesperson told AFP, confirming earlier media reports.
According to Der Spiegel and the regional broadcaster MDR, around 20,000 rounds of ammunition were stolen from an unguarded parking lot near Magdeburg, in eastern Germany, while the driver was asleep in a nearby hotel. No information has been released regarding the identity of the suspects, and the military declined to specify the exact type or amount of ammunition taken.
Authorities have also not indicated how the perpetrators knew the cargo would be left unattended.
“The theft was discovered upon delivery at the barracks,” the German army spokesperson said.
A police spokeswoman confirmed to AFP that an investigation has been opened but refused to provide further details “for tactical reasons.”
Sources close to the German military, cited by Der Spiegel, believe it is unlikely the theft was a coincidence. They suspect the thieves waited for the driver to stop for the night before striking.
Der Spiegel also reported that the Defense Ministry normally requires two drivers for this type of transport to ensure the cargo is constantly monitored. However, in this case only one driver was assigned, meaning the civilian transport company failed to comply with the security protocols.
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