DHS’s account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court: ‘A smear campaign’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/portland-venezuelans-shot-border-patrol-court

DHS’s account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court: ‘A smear campaign’

Immigration officials said agent shot two ‘vicious gang members’ in Portland, but records obtained by the Guardian reveal US prosecutor contradicted claims

Mon 2 Feb 2026 19.09 EST

Immediately after a US border patrol agent shot two people in Oregon last month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the targets were “vicious” gang members connected to a prior shooting and alleged they had “attempted to run over” officers with their vehicle.

In the weeks since, key parts of the federal government’s narrative have fallen apart.

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But court records obtained by the Guardian reveal a Department of Justice prosecutor later directly contradicted DHS’ Tren de Aragua statements in court, telling a judge, “We’re not suggesting … [Niño-Moncada] is a gang member.” An FBI affidavit issued following the incident also suggests that in the previous shooting cited by DHS, Zambrano-Contreras was not a suspect, but rather a reported victim of a sexual assault and robbery. Neither Niño-Moncada or Zambrano-Contreras have prior criminal convictions, their lawyers have said.

The British newspaper Daily Mail is out with a deeply researched investigative report, the result of a long collaboration between columnists Glen Owen and Dan Hodges, along with Mark Hookham (Assistant Editor Investigations), and Daisy Graham-Brown (Investigative Reporter).

It’s shocking in its detail and its implication that Vladimir Putin has basically owned Donald Trump for years, even before Trump ran for president in 2016.

They note of last week’s partial (about 50 percent) Epstein document release:

Essentially, they’re arguing that Epstein was running an operation on behalf of the KGB/Putin that lured wealthy and powerful men to Epstein’s New York and Palm Beach mansions and his island where they were surreptitiously filmed having sex with underage girls.

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-russia-2675069424/

Secretary of Homeland Security Krist “I Shoot Puppies” Noem finally admitted it:  America is a WHITE country and we will get all you little dark-skinned people out of here!”

 

This was less than a month at the after the Trump administration had announced they were revoking the legal status of immigrants from Haiti to this country. That’s more than 300 ,000 people from Haiti who live and work in this country legally here under a legal designation called temporary protected status. The Trump administration announced they were going to revoke that legal status, and it was going to be effective at midnight Tuesday this week.

And just think about the practical impact of that. This is a huge number of people. We’re talking about more than 300,000 people who are here in this country…

LEGALLY, BUT AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT, THEY WERE SUDDENLY AND IMMEDIATELY GOING TO BECOME ILLEGAL. THEY WERE GOING TO BECOME THEREFORE IN THE EYES OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, IN THE EYES OF ICE THEY WERE GOING TO BECOME IMMEDIATELY
ELIGIBLE FOR ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT.
ANS DEPORTATION BY ICE (VIOLENTLY AND WITHOUT REGARD FOR THEIR RIGHTS LIKE THEY WERE DANGEROUS ANIMALS INSTEAD OF HUMAN BEINGS).

The sudden ending of that temporary protected status for more than 300 ,000 people was challenged in the courts
and in a buzzer beater, the judge in the case just headed it off just one day before the deadline. The judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from doing what they wanted to do. People from Haiti who are here under TPS will be able to continue to live and work in this country while the case is being fully litigated.

But I want you to know, the reason I think this is worth knowing about is because of the language of the ruling. In the ruling on this case, the judge just absolutely excoriates the Trump administration. This is from the ruling, quote,

“President Trump has referred to Haiti as a bleephole country, suggested Haitians probably have AIDS and complained that Haitian immigration is, quote, like a death wish for our country. He has also promoted the false conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants were eating the pets of the people of Springfield, Ohio. He stated, quote, Why is it we only take people from bleephole countries, right? Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden? Just a few. Let us have a few from Denmark. It is not a coincidence, the judge says, that Haiti’s population is 95 % black while Norway’s is over 90% white.”

“Secretary Noem complains of strains, unlawful immigrants place on our immigration enforcement system. Her answer, turn 352 ,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight. She complains of strains to our economy. Her answer? Turn employed, lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our health care system. Secretary Noem’s answer, turn the insured into the uninsured.This approach is many things. In the public interest is not one of them.”

Plaintiffs charge that Secretary Noem preordained her termination decision and did so because of hostility to non-white immigrants. The judge says, quote, this seems substantially likely.

 

Four days before Donald Trump’s inauguration last year, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal with the Trump family to purchase a 49% stake in their fledgling cryptocurrency venture for half a billion dollars, according to company documents and people familiar with the matter. The buyers would pay half up front, steering $187 million to Trump family entities.

The deal with World Liberty Financial, which hasn’t previously been reported, was signed by Eric Trump, the president’s son. At least $31 million was also slated to flow to entities affiliated with the family of Steve Witkoff, a World Liberty co-founder who weeks earlier had been named U.S. envoy to the Middle East, the documents said.

The investment was backed by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, an Abu Dhabi royal who has been pushing the U.S. for access to tightly guarded artificial intelligence chips, according to people familiar with the matter. Tahnoon—sometimes referred to as the “spy sheikh”—is brother to the United Arab Emirates’ president, the government’s national security adviser, as well as the leader of the oil-rich country’s largest wealth fund. He oversees a more than $1.3 trillion empire funded by his personal fortune and state money that spans from fish farms to AI to surveillance, making him one of the most powerful single investors in the world.

The deal marked something unprecedented in American politics: a foreign government official taking a major ownership stake in an incoming U.S. president’s company.

Under the Biden administration, Tahnoon’s efforts to get AI hardware had been largely stymied over fears that the sensitive technology could be diverted to China. Of particular concern was one of Tahnoon’s own companies, the AI firm G42, which had stoked alarm among intelligence officials and lawmakers over its close ties to the sanctioned tech giant Huawei and other Chinese firms.

 

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Meet JESUS OCHOA & RAYMUNDO GUTIERREZ, the two worthless POS who MURDERED Alex Pretti

https://www.thedailybeast.com/immigration-goons-who-opened-fire-on-alex-pretti-unmasked-as-jesus-ochoa-and-raymundo-gutierrez/

Government records obtained by ProPublica identify the immigration goons as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez, 35. Both hail from South Texas.

Ochoa joined Customs and Border Protection in 2018, while Gutierrez joined in 2014. They were both assigned to Operation Metro Surge, an immigration operation launched in December.

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, the parent agency of CBP, told the Daily Beast in a statement that they will “never confirm or deny attempts to dox our law enforcement officers,” adding that “this matter remains under investigation.”

Gutierrez works for CBP’s Office of Field Operations and is assigned to a special response team that functions similarly to a SWAT unit, according to ProPublica. Ochoa’s ex-wife, Angelica Ochoa, told the outlet that he got his criminal justice degree from the University of Texas-Pan American.

 

 

Judge Fred Biery just launched a nuclear missile on Trump and the rest of his Nazis: “For some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power & imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds”

He then went on to describe the Trump administration as . . .“bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned.”

Judge Biery ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos — who became a symbol of ICE’s aggression in MN

“The case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, even if it requires traumatizing children.”

Legal observers say they have never seen a ruling like this: “Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned.”

Here’s an excerpt from the ruling.

 

His real name is not J.D. Vance; due to mother’s marriages and divorces, living with various family members, he has had as many as six names.

JD Vance’s birth name is James Donald Bowman. Born in 1984 in Middletown, Ohio, he underwent several legal name changes throughout his life due to his parents’ divorce, adoption by a stepfather, and his desire to honor his maternal grandparents.

Birth Name: James Donald Bowman

Second Name: James David Hamel (adopted by stepfather)

Current Legal Name: James David Vance (adopted in 2013)