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WATCH: Mike Waltz tells Cuban delegation ‘this is not Havana’ during heated UN speech
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Cuba’s foreign minister accused the United States of committing an «act of war» by restricting fuel shipments to the island Tuesday, prompting U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz to deliver a forceful response blaming Cuba’s communist government for years of blackouts, repression and economic collapse.
The confrontation unfolded at the U.N. General Assembly one day after Cuba’s national electrical grid collapsed, leaving nearly 10 million people without power. It was the third nationwide grid failure this year and the eighth since October 2025, Reuters reported.
Cuban officials had restored electricity to parts of central Cuba and roughly one-third of Havana by Tuesday morning, although large areas remained offline or faced unstable service, according to Reuters.
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz holds up a photograph of jailed Cuban dissidents during a General Assembly debate on the U.S. embargo against Cuba at U.N. headquarters in New York on July 7, 2026. (UNTV)
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez told delegates that the Trump administration was carrying out a «multidimensional, non-conventional war» against Cuba that had grown «more cruel and ruthless in the last seven months.»
Rodríguez described U.S. efforts to restrict fuel deliveries as the imposition of «an energy collapse, equivalent to a naval blockade, which is an act of war,» according to a UNTV transcript.
Waltz rejected the claim that the United States had established a naval blockade around Cuba.
«There is no ring of Navy warships, U.S. Navy warships sitting around this island blocking trade or humanitarian aid going into Cuba,» Waltz said. «It’s fake. It’s false. It’s a lie. Period.»
Waltz argued that the real embargo was the one Cuba’s government imposed on its own citizens.
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People walk on the street during a national electrical grid collapse, in Havana, Cuba, March 14, 2025. (Norlys Perez/Reuters)
«There’s a lot of talk today of an embargo. And indeed there is one,» he said. «It’s the embargo the Cuban regime mercilessly imposes on its own people decade after decade after decade.»
He called on Havana to «change your ways» and «turn the lights back on for your people,» while accusing Cuba’s leaders of ensuring that government compounds and propaganda operations had power even as families worried about spoiled food, hospitals losing electricity and phones running out of charge.
Waltz noted that Tuesday’s meeting came days before the fifth anniversary of the July 11, 2021, demonstrations, when thousands of Cubans took to the streets amid shortages of food, medicine and electricity and demanded greater freedom.
As Waltz spoke, a member of the Cuban delegation pounded on the table, prompting the ambassador to respond.
«This is not Havana. This is the United States of America. This is the United Nations,» Waltz said. «And we will speak, we will be heard, and we will not be silenced like your own people. So, pound away.»
Waltz displayed photographs and read the names of several jailed Cuban artists, musicians and activists, including Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Maykel Castillo Pérez and Duannis Dabel León Taboada.
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Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez speaks during a news conference in Havana. (Reuters/Alexandre Meneghini)
«They’re not armed. They’re not violent,» Waltz said. «They carry flowers, and write poems and write music. And for that, the regime beats them, detains them and tries to break them.»
Waltz also said GAESA, Cuba’s military-run conglomerate, controls approximately half of the country’s economy and holds $18 billion in assets.
Reuters has reported that estimates of GAESA’s economic reach range from approximately 40% to 70%, while Cuban officials dispute the U.S. government’s $18 billion figure.
Waltz said that despite Cuba’s blockade claims, humanitarian assistance had recently arrived from countries including China, Russia, Mexico, Canada and Spain, as well as from the European Union and the United Nations.
He also said the United States had provided more than $100 million in aid this year and approximately $500 million annually in commodities.
«The answer is simple: because blaming the United States is the only economic plan Havana has left,» Waltz said of Cuba’s decision to bring the issue before the General Assembly.
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Protesters gather outside a Communist Party headquarters in Morón, Cuba, as a fire burns in the street during overnight unrest. Video obtained by Fox News Digital appeared to show demonstrators attempting to set fire to the building amid protests linked to widespread blackouts. (Reuters)
Before the wider debate, U.S. Representative for U.N. Management and Reform Jeffrey Bartos objected to reopening the agenda item and called for a vote on whether the proceedings should go forward.
Bartos said the three-hour meeting would cost approximately $84,000, money he argued could instead provide food, emergency medical supplies and solar lanterns to Cuban families.
«Right now, Cuba is in darkness — again,» Bartos said. «I urge the Cuban regime: turn the lights back on for your people.»
Members of the Cuban delegation also interrupted Bartos several times by pounding on the table. Bartos at one point paused and responded, «Keep banging away. It’s very effective,» before continuing his remarks.
Bartos accused Havana of seeking «another propaganda clip» rather than solutions and pointed to what he said were more than 800 political prisoners held by the government.
Independent organizations have produced varying estimates. Human Rights Watch said in April that more than 700 people remained imprisoned for political reasons, while Prisoners Defenders reported more than 1,200 political prisoners in Cuba in the spring of 2026. Cuba denies holding anyone for political reasons.
«That is the real Cuban embargo,» Bartos said. «It is the embargo the regime imposes on its own people: on speech, on faith, on enterprise, on dissent, on political rights and hope — and now, quite literally, on light.»
Rodríguez accused the U.S. delegation of offering «worn-out lies» and attempting to prevent the General Assembly from debating the effects of American policy.
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Jeff Bartos, U.S. Representative to the United Nations for Management and Reform, addresses a meeting of the Security Council at U.N. headquarters in New York City, Nov. 25, 2025. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)
Cuba’s electricity crisis has been driven by severe fuel shortages and an aging, poorly maintained power system that has struggled to meet demand. The Cuban government primarily blames U.S. restrictions, while Washington attributes the island’s broader economic crisis to communist economic policies, corruption and repression.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Zelenskyy: War initiative no longer in Putin’s hands
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine’s military has transformed dramatically, now supported by more than 500 defense companies. He says Russia is losing 30,000 troops each month and argues the initiative in the war is no longer in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hands.
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Poland, the closest NATO member to the Ukraine-Russia war, scrambled fighter jets and placed its air defenses on high alert early Thursday as Russia launched more than 70 missiles and roughly 280 drones across Ukraine, killing at least eight and wounding dozens from Kyiv to the western city of Lviv.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, just returning from this week’s U.S. visit with President Donald Trump and the funeral of late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said the barrage exposed a critical shortage of Western-supplied interceptors, particularly against ballistic missiles.
«The protection of people’s lives depends directly on their willingness» to provide Ukraine with air-defense missiles, Zelenskyy said of Kyiv’s allies.
Hours later Thursday morning, the European Union disbursed $4 billion to Ukraine to finance the procurement of more drones, missiles, air defense and fighter jets, according to the European Commission.
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Ukrainian firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a market following a Russian missile strike in Kyiv on overnight into Thursday morning. Russian strikes killed at least eight people and wounded more than a dozen others across Ukraine, authorities said, triggering renewed calls from Kyiv for its allies to send air defense supplies. (AFP)
The disbursement is part of a more than $100 billion loan approved by the EU earlier this year and follows the roughly $3.5 billion installment on June 25 and $4.5 billion on June 30.
Polish forces detected an unidentified object moving west through the country’s airspace shortly before 4 a.m. An F-16 was dispatched to intercept it, but the object disappeared from radar minutes later. Authorities subsequently found a crater about 33 feet wide and scattered debris in farmland near Tarnawa-Kolonia, about 1.2 miles from the closest buildings.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said initial evidence indicated the object was a Russian Kh-101 missile, although investigators were still working to confirm its type and origin.
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Emergency workers use heavy equipment to clear rubble from apartment buildings in Lviv, the westernmost city in Ukraine and the closest to NATO ally Poland, after a Russian missile attack Thursday, July 30, 2026. (Anadolu)
«All the indications are that it was a Russian Kh-101,» Tusk said, adding that Polish forces were prepared to shoot it down if it had continued flying toward a populated area.
He added the U.S. is interested in joining the investigation, which has initially determined the missile was not intended for Poland territory. The fate of the Ukraine-Russian war might be decided within the next 100 days, Tusk told reporters.
The threat to a NATO ally is a new frontier in the long-running war and comes after Zelenskyy pressed senators to advance Graham’s sweeping sanctions package. Also, Trump and Zelenskyy discussed U.S. licenses allowing Ukraine to produce Patriot interceptors, along with other defense cooperation and efforts to revive stalled diplomacy with Moscow.
Six people, including two girls ages 5 and 12, were killed when a Russian Iskander-M ballistic missile struck a private home housing a large family near Kryvyi Rih, according to local officials. Seven others were reported killed in Kyiv and elsewhere in the Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava regions as the casualty count rose during rescue operations.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Donald Trump at the White House during his Tuesday visit to Washington, D.C.
«A dark night,» Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of Kryvyi Rih’s defense council, wrote on Telegram. Eight people were wounded in the strike on the home.
The person killed in Kyiv was a 31-year-old man, while two others were wounded, according to Ukrainian police. Russian strikes damaged residential buildings, vehicles, storage facilities, a market and a garage complex in the capital, where air raid warnings lasted more than five hours and thousands of residents sheltered in subway stations.
In Lviv, about 40 miles from the Polish border, emergency crews searched damaged apartment buildings for people trapped beneath concrete and debris. Thirty people, including children, were reported injured. More than 20 residential buildings, a school and two kindergartens were damaged, officials said.
«I was terrified watching the rescuers go beneath those concrete slabs,» one Lviv resident told Reuters as crews pulled a boy from a damaged building.
Ukraine’s air force said its defenses intercepted 55 missiles and 265 drones. But only one of nine ballistic missiles was shot down, while 11 missiles and 17 drones struck targets at 20 locations.
The U.S.-made Patriot is the only system currently in Ukraine’s arsenal capable of reliably intercepting Russian ballistic missiles, which travel at several times the speed of sound. Zelenskyy has repeatedly warned that Patriot interceptors are arriving too slowly and in insufficient numbers.
During his Tuesday meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy said the leaders discussed licenses for Patriot interceptor production in Ukraine. He also met with Lockheed Martin executives and told senators that domestic production would be a long-term solution but would not address Ukraine’s immediate shortage of missiles. European countries have offered to pay for additional U.S.-made interceptors.
Zelenskyy’s Washington visit coincided with Senate consideration of the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, named for the longtime defense hawk and outspoken Ukraine supporter who died unexpectedly earlier this month.
The Senate voted 86-12 Tuesday to clear an initial procedural hurdle and voted 84-12 Wednesday to formally proceed with the legislation. Additional votes were still required before final passage.
The package would impose sanctions on Russian officials, oligarchs, financial institutions, energy projects and vessels accused of helping Moscow evade existing restrictions. It would also authorize tariffs of up to 100% on goods from the five largest purchasers of Russian oil and natural gas and the leading countries facilitating sanctions evasion.
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Graham negotiated the revised package with the White House shortly before his death. The legislation also includes an extension of sanctions targeting Iran’s energy and weapons sectors, a provision sought by the Trump administration.
Zelenskyy met with a bipartisan group of senators before the procedural votes and called the legislation an important signal to Russia, Europe and the Ukrainian people. He watched the Senate vote from the chamber’s gallery after attending Graham’s funeral at Washington National Cathedral.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Hawley moves to close federal cash prize loopholes after Fauci ‘got rich while millions of people died’
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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is introducing legislation to block federal bureaucrats from accepting cash prizes on Thursday, just a day after laying into Dr. Anthony Fauci for receiving what Hawley said was over $1 million during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hawley accused Fauci during a Wednesday Senate hearing of exploiting loopholes in federal laws that already prohibit government employees from soliciting rewards like cash prizes. Hawley’s bill, dubbed the No Cash Prizes for Bureaucrats Act, would close those loopholes.
«No federal bureaucrat should accept cash prizes while on the job. That’s why I’m introducing legislation to bar federal employees from accepting cash prizes or soliciting awards. Fauci got rich while millions of people died. It can never happen again,» Hawley told Fox News Digital in a statement.
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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks in front of a board with an image of Anthony Fauci, the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and medical advisor to several U.S. presidents, as Fauci (not pictured) attends a U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 29, 2026. Anthony Fauci declined to answer questions, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. (REUTERS/Nathan Howard)
Hawley cited public records showing that Fauci, while director of the National Institutes of Health, used employees to solicit at least eight cash awards for himself, with one award check alone totaling $900,000.
The new legislation would block federal employees from receiving rewards for medicine and research as well as block employees from soliciting such rewards. It would also strengthen existing federal regulations that block NIH officials from using their or a subordinate’s official duty time to solicit rewards.
The bill comes after Hawley thrashed Fauci during a Wednesday hearing with the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, during which Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is sworn in during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on July 29, 2026. Dr. Fauci, the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is testifying after Senator Rand Paul, Republican from Kentucky, released more than 1000 pages of Fauci’s diary entries from the COVID-19 pandemic. (Alex Wroblewski / AFP via Getty Images)
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«But I think I know why you’re doing it,» Hawley said of Fauci’s refusal to testify. «It’s because you don’t want to answer questions. It’s because you did all kinds of terrible things. It’s because during the pandemic, you got rich … while people were dying.»
«You were using federal employees with taxpayer money to apply for and solicit cash prizes for you personally, cash prizes totaling over $1 million,» Hawley said. «You did all of that during the pandemic, didn’t you?»
Rather than respond to Hawley’s questions, Fauci repeatedly said, «On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.»
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Hawley then pointed to what he described as internal emails from Fauci’s staff, including one from former chief of staff Greg Folkers discussing a nomination for the Dan David Prize. According to Hawley, the email asked federal employees to bolster the COVID-19 section of Fauci’s nomination by providing language detailing his pandemic response.
Former NIH Director Anthony Fauci testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in Washington, D.C., on July 29, 2026. Fauci was expected to be questioned about his diary entries during his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Getty Images)
«We’re working on this nomination for the Dan David Award for Fauci,» Hawley read from the email. «We need to beef up the COVID part.»
Hawley said the Dan David Award carried a $900,000 cash prize and claimed Fauci used federal employees to help obtain it. He further accused Fauci of using government staff and resources to pursue at least eight additional cash awards, including honors from the Partnership for Public Service, the Adelson Prize, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Academy of Medicine and the CDC Foundation.
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«In fact, you turned your staff into a full-time application machine,» Hawley said. «You actually wrote to people and said, ‘Do you think maybe I’d qualify?’»
Fox News’ Stephen Sorace contributed to this report.
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ICE aumenta los arrestos en los aeropuertos de EE.UU. y abre otro frente en las deportaciones
El gobierno de Donald Trump ha comenzado a arrestar en los aeropuertos a ciudadanos extranjeros que viajan con visas a Estados Unidos vencidas, entre ellos cónyuges de estadounidenses, según documentos obtenidos por The New York Times y entrevistas con abogados de migración, una táctica que plantea un nuevo y amplio grupo de personas susceptibles de deportación.
Agentes de inmigración vestidos de civil se han llevado rápidamente a sus objetivos en los mostradores de registro y puertas de llegada, con medidas de control migratorio realizadas en al menos 15 aeropuertos en las últimas semanas. Algunos de los arrestos han ocurrido de manera discreta, mientras que otros han sucedido en tanto que pasajeros molestos grababan los encuentros.
Los recientes arrestos parecen ser una expansión de un acuerdo entre la Administración de Seguridad en el Transporte (TSA, por su sigla en inglés) y el Servicio de Control de Inmigración y Aduanas (ICE, por su sigla en inglés). El Times reportó en diciembre que los agentes del ICE estaban arrestando en los aeropuertos a personas con órdenes de deportación gracias a información proporcionada por las aerolíneas a la TSA.
Ahora, a través de una revisión de documentos del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional y entrevistas con abogados de más de 25 personas de más de una decena de países que han sido detenidas recientemente en aeropuertos, el Times ha descubierto que al parecer el programa ahora incluye a personas con visas vencidas, un grupo mucho más numeroso.
Cientos de miles de migrantes y visitantes se quedan en el país después del vencimiento de sus visas cada año. Muchos con visas vencidas se encuentran en una zona legal gris, ya que están a la espera de extensiones de visa o tarjetas de residencia y se les han otorgado permisos de trabajo. En el pasado, no se daba prioridad a estas personas para la deportación a menos que hubieran cometido delitos, y rara vez se les detenía cuando estaban a la espera de extensiones de visa o tarjetas de residencia. Pero eso ha cambiado bajo el mandato del presidente Trump, cuyo gobierno ha emprendido una campaña de deportación masiva y considera ilegales todas las estadías con visas vencidas.
“Este gobierno está trabajando de manera diligente para garantizar que los extranjeros que se encuentran de forma ilegal en nuestro país ya no puedan volar a menos que sea para autodeportarse fuera del país”, dijo un portavoz del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS, por su sigla en inglés) en un comunicado. La agencia no confirmó la expansión del programa.
El departamento, que supervisa al ICE, no ha revelado cuántas personas han sido detenidas en los aeropuertos por sobrepasar el plazo de su visa bajo la nueva iniciativa. Los arrestos ocurren durante un periodo en el que la Casa Blanca ha presionado al ICE para que realice más detenciones en todo el país, y el secretario de Seguridad Nacional, Markwayne Mullin, ha prometido “aumentar la presión en las calles”. Con ese fin, el gobierno ha fijado una meta de 2000 arrestos migratorios al día, aproximadamente el doble del ritmo de principios de este año.
Las entrevistas con más de una decena de abogados de migración, organizaciones de defensa y un empleado de una aerolínea revelan una amplia muestra de objetivos: un ingeniero que espera una extensión de su visa de trabajo, varios recién casados con ciudadanos estadounidenses y una persona que anteriormente se desempeñó como au pair.
Las grabaciones de encuentros entre viajeros y agentes del ICE han inundado las redes sociales. En un video que ha sido muy difundido, Chantal Morales Rojas, una ecuatoriana de 27 años, fue detenida por agentes vestidos de civil cuando abordaba un vuelo de Southwest Airlines de Denver con destino a Oakland, California, el 20 de julio. Había pasado el fin de semana con la familia para la que había trabajado como au pair, según la familia.
Cuando Morales Rojas escaneó su pase de abordar, sonó una alarma y el agente de la puerta de embarque le pidió que esperara. Momentos después, dos oficiales vestidos de civil la interceptaron en el puente de abordaje.
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“Dijeron que iban a ser respetuosos, que iban a ser amables”, dijo al Times en una entrevista Alicia Dantzker, una amiga de la familia que iba en el mismo vuelo y grabó parte del encuentro. El video capta a los hombres rodeando a Morales Rojas, para luego guiarla por una puerta lateral y bajarla por unas escaleras hacia la pista, mientras Dantzker grita pidiendo ayuda.
También entre los detenidos había una mujer ugandesa en silla de ruedas que padece anemia de células falciformes y tiene una solicitud de asilo en curso, según su abogado.
En otro caso, el ICE intentó arrestar en el aeropuerto de Las Vegas a un ciudadano australiano que se había quedado en el país después del vencimiento de su visa, según el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional. La escena fue grabada por un testigo, cuyo video del encuentro atrajo mucha atención. Los funcionarios lo dejaron ir “para reducir la tensión de la situación y por la seguridad de los agentes”, pero el ICE lo detuvo un día después cuando intentó abordar un vuelo en Los Ángeles, dijo el departamento en un comunicado.
“En 38 años de ejercer el derecho migratorio, nunca había visto esto”, dijo Charles Kuck, quien tiene su sede en Atlanta y representa a un ingeniero indio que fue detenido mientras esperaba una extensión de su permiso de trabajo. “Y sé que le está pasando a mucha gente”.
Shannon Shepherd, una abogada de migración y vicepresidenta del capítulo de Chicago de la Asociación Estadounidense de Abogados de Migración, dijo que ella y otros abogados estaban actualizando los consejos que por mucho tiempo habían dado sobre los viajes aéreos nacionales.
“Antes, yo decía: ‘Siempre y cuando tengas una identificación, puedes viajar dentro del país’”, dijo Shepherd. “Ahora me retracto y digo: ‘Si estás en proceso de cambiar de estatus, evita cualquier viaje’”.
La colaboración inicial entre la TSA y el ICE comenzó en mayo de 2025, cuando la agencia de seguridad aeroportuaria empezó a compartir información con la agencia de inmigración con fines de aplicación de la ley, según un documento obtenido a través de la Ley de Libertad de Información por el grupo de transparencia gubernamental American Oversight, y compartido con el Times.
El ICE compartió nombres de personas con órdenes de deportación con la agencia aeroportuaria, la cual los buscaría en sus bases de datos e informaría de cualquier coincidencia al ICE para un posible arresto. Fue un cambio notable respecto a las prácticas del pasado, cuando el gobierno federal evitaba involucrar a la TSA en la aplicación de las leyes de inmigración por temor a perturbar los viajes nacionales.
Ahora, “la red que están tendiendo para las personas que quieren detener es mucho más amplia”, dijo Ghassan Shamieh, un abogado de migración en San Francisco.
“No se trata de personas con antecedentes penales” a las que se está apuntando, dijo Shamieh. “Hablamos de personas con solicitudes legítimas pendientes”.
Shamieh tiene cuatro clientes que fueron detenidos en aeropuertos en los últimos 10 días, entre ellos dos mujeres que se casaron hace poco con estadounidenses y están en el trámite para obtener la residencia permanente a través de sus esposos. Uno de ellos estaba con su esposa cuando ella fue puesta bajo custodia después de aterrizar en Burbank, California.
El martes por la mañana, un juez de migración le concedió la libertad bajo una fianza de 35.000 dólares. Pero los abogados del DHS se reservaron el derecho a apelar en un plazo de 30 días, y es probable que ella quede detenida hasta que tomen una decisión.
Morales Rojas, la au pair, ingresó a Estados Unidos legalmente en enero de 2023 como visitante de intercambio J-1, un estatus legal que le permitió trabajar durante dos años, según su abogada. Su visa venció el 4 de enero de 2025, según el DHS. Antes de que terminara el programa de intercambio, Morales Rojas presentó una solicitud ante las autoridades de inmigración para quedarse en el país, dijo la abogada, Laura Lichter.
“Durante los últimos tres años y medio, Morales Rojas vivió abiertamente en Estados Unidos con el conocimiento por parte del gobierno de su caso pendiente, pasó repetidas verificaciones de antecedentes y recibió autorización de trabajo del DHS mientras esperaba que se revisara su solicitud”, dijo Lichter. “El proceso que está siguiendo es completamente legal”.
Pero los funcionarios de seguridad nacional dijeron en un comunicado que, “en violación de las leyes de nuestra nación, se quedó más tiempo del permitido por su visa”. El martes por la tarde, un juez le concedió la libertad bajo una fianza de 3000 dólares, y es probable que salga de detención a más tardar el miércoles.
Lichter ha presentado una demanda impugnando la decisión del gobierno de arrestar y detener a Morales Rojas sin una orden de arresto adecuada y sin una determinación individualizada de que la detención era necesaria.
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Lauren y Scott Cahr, sus antiguos empleadores, dijeron que habían contratado a Morales Rojas cuando su primer hijo, Silas, tenía 6 meses de edad. Los Cahr dijeron en una entrevista que habían llevado en avión a Morales Rojas a Denver durante un torneo de Ultimate Frisbee al que asistieron, y que ella había ayudado a cuidar a Silas y a su hermanito.
La familia formó un vínculo profundo, y los Cahr crearon un álbum de fotos personalizado titulado “Las aventuras de Chanty y Gordo“, los apodos con los que Morales Rojas y el hijo de la pareja se llamaban mutuamente, como regalo de despedida.
“Es una joven increíble y tuvimos mucha suerte de que estuviera en nuestras vidas”, dijo Cahr. “Hemos tratado de mantener una relación constante con ella”.
Cahr ha visitado a Morales Rojas en el centro de detención, mientras que los miembros de la comunidad de Ultimate Frisbee de los Cahr han lanzado una campaña en GoFundMe para ayudar a cubrir los gastos legales.
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