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More than 3,200 people suspected of violating immigration laws have been arrested during the so-called “ Operation Midway Blitz.” Dozens of U.S. citizens and protesters have been arrested with charges ranging from resisting arrest to conspiring to impede an officer.
The Department of Homeland Security defends the operation, alleging officers face hostile crowds as they pursue violent criminals.
Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol commander who’s brought controversial tactics from operations in Los Angeles, called Chicago a “very non permissive environment.” He blamed sanctuary protections and elected leaders and defended agents’ actions, which are the subject of lawsuits.
But the operation's intensity could subside soon.
Bovino told The Associated Press this month that U.S. Customs and Border Protection will target other cities. He didn't elaborate, but Homeland Security officials confirmed Saturday that an immigration enforcement surge had begun in Charlotte, North Carolina.
DHS, which oversees CBP and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has said operations won't end in Chicago.
Alonso Zaragoza, with a neighborhood organization in the heavily immigrant Belmont Cragin, has printed hundreds of “No ICE” posters for businesses. Organizers in Oregon and Missouri have asked for advice.
“It’s become a model for other cities,” Zaragoza said. “We’re building leaders in our community who are teaching others.”
The turnout for virtual know-your-rights trainings offered by the pro-democracy group, States at the Core, doubled from 500 to 1,000 over a recent month, drawing participants from New Jersey and Tennessee.
“We train and we let go, and the people of Chicago are the ones who run with it,” said organizer Jill Garvey.
Enriquez completes up to three patrol shifts daily. Beyond the physical exertion, the work takes a toll.
Federal agents visited his home and questioned family members. A U.S. citizen relative was handcuffed by agents. His car horn no longer works, which he attributes to overuse.
“This has been very traumatizing,” he said. “It is very scary because you will remember this for the rest of your life.”
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Locations registered with the government where the animals have been can be checked against satellite images to detect illegal deforestation, or against maps that show Indigenous territories that are supposed to be off-limits for cattle."},{"_id":"YMI4PM7DYBC4DADPEEUT3SJDFE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“The only solution is individual cattle traceability because then you can know for each movement where that cattle has been and if it has been in a place that has been deforested in the past,” said José Otavio Passos, the Brazilian Amazon director with The Nature Conservancy."},{"_id":"ZMXHADPDJJGLDC4U3BGAWUQ4TE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Mauro Lucio, 60, has 2,600 cattle on his farm in Paragominas about 290 kilometers (180 miles) south of Belem. He said the new tagging program was an easy transition for him because he's been tagging his cattle since 2000. He did it to track his own herd, but he sees the benefit of the government now being involved."},{"_id":"7QF3PUYY6VHD3MAXHLRDVZJO6E","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“For me, this is the same tool,\" he said."},{"_id":"PWELNPRK55EQPHO6RENEGHDW7I","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Gorete, the cattle rancher near Novo Repartimento, said she doesn’t believe ranchers will be able to skirt the system once it’s fully in place."},{"_id":"W4OKSQ6WUZG5TBZIJUXLEFI7YI","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“The guy who doesn’t have identification of his animals is not going to be selling,” she said."},{"level":2,"_id":"MY4BCCKSKZGUHHNVMQ2KUQM2LU","additional_properties":{},"type":"header","content":"Industry is a participant"},{"_id":"4Z6ZSGPB5RC63IK324MXPMHEPQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The government will pay for the tags for farms with 100 head of cattle or fewer and ranchers with anything beyond that pay by themselves, said Passos, of The Nature Conservancy. Lucio said the last price he paid for tags was just under 9 Brazilian reals (US$1.70)."},{"_id":"NOV6SC5R5ZH2JJAFTQ5ERLQCKQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"JBS, the world’s largest meatpacker, is donating 2 million tags to the effort. The company, which is among several that have been fined or faced lawsuits for buying cattle raised illegally on deforested land, said traceability of cattle can help address concerns about deforestation. JBS says it has a “zero-tolerance policy” for illegal deforestation and takes several steps to ensure its supply chain doesn’t contribute to deforestation."},{"_id":"TWA5BYSHK5FQFFLNLJBM5V7V74","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Passos said it's important to have industry players on board. “We have never had such a unique window of opportunity where you have all the sectors, the cattle ranchers, the meatpackers, the industry, the government, the NGOs, all hurtling around the same objective,” he said."},{"_id":"ONVTLA2GV5BD7IVLR322GJG6EA","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Even if meat producers are backing a legal system for cattle tracing, though, there will always be ways to get around laws, said Piatto, of Imaflora, because “illegal is cheaper, it's easier.”"},{"_id":"O7KFSH3W5FA3JMRRP5ZO46XWQ4","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Christian Poirier, program director at Amazon Watch, an organization focused on rainforest protection, said land clearing is carried out “in a sophisticated way by well-funded crime syndicates, not by small landholders in the majority by any means.”"},{"_id":"HNPIOJNFWFBCLO4UKAJXHJC6LY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"He said it's been easy for those groups to get around current efforts to stop the clearing. He called the new tagging a step in the right direction, but said the most determined people may still be capable of getting around the new rules."},{"_id":"X2XPAAL4MJEYZFIYRIJGS7XRYQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The committee that has been coordinating between government, industry and producers has been working on ways to prevent fraud and use law enforcement most effectively, said Fernando Sampaio, sustainability director of the Brazilian Association of Meat Exporting Industries. For that, they have to know where to look; for instance, if a farm is selling more animals than its size would suggest, that might be a red flag."},{"_id":"TQYKGEDRBRDMZFHZQ3QOLQSDKM","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Sampaio characterized a small minority of farms as being run by criminal operations. 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This conference was supposed to hyperfocus on “implementation” of past promises not yet kept."},{"_id":"3XUC2Q5SMBFALOERAH3EYSMMOU","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Throw that out the window."},{"_id":"EFPETAALERGYRLSB2MPHLQKYNM","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The urgency of climate change is causing some negotiators to push for more big-picture action — on weak plans to cut emissions of heat-trapping gases, on too little money to help nations wracked by climate change, on putting teeth into phasing out coal, oil and gas. Because of that pressure to do more — including from Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva — the diplomat chairing the talks said Saturday he'll consider a big-picture, end-of-negotiations communiqué, sometimes known as a decision or cover text."},{"_id":"IL5PECFOFJGDVG7UOAIRV33BBE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“I think things have changed, which is a very good thing,” said veteran observer Jean Su of the Center for Biological Diversity. “So I think there’s momentum that we will get some type of decision text, and our hope is that in particular there’s going to be some commitment on phasing out fossil fuels.”"},{"_id":"G5MTO3FFAJEALMRNUBRLJZT2ZY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“I would say that what’s at stake now is probably higher than the last several COPs because you’re looking at an ambition gap,″ said former Philippine negotiator Jasper Inventor, international program director at Greenpeace International. “There’s a lot of expectation, there’s a lot of excitement here, but there’s also a lot of political signals that’s been sent by President Lula.”"},{"_id":"CTM3CXKXBJFMVKE6IIB2X77YY4","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“We’re at the middle of the COP, and at the middle of COP is usually where the negotiators stare each other eye-to-eye. It’s almost like a staring contest,” Inventor said. “But next week, this is where the negotiations need to happen, where political decisions are made by the ministers.”"},{"_id":"3E46NTDSTNFJXJUYMIASDXORPY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Because this process stems from the Paris climate Agreement, which is mostly voluntary, these end statements grab headlines and set global tone but have limited power. The last few COP end statements have made still-unfulfilled pledges for rich countries to give money to poor nations to cope with climate change and the world to phase out fossil fuels."},{"level":2,"_id":"Q24Y3M3BONEU7MMYUAJX2M2BYM","additional_properties":{},"type":"header","content":"Decision time"},{"_id":"35EXE64VERBY5M5RPXEW37GU2A","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Key among those issues is the idea of telling nations to go back to the drawing board on what experts consider inadequate climate-fighting plans submitted this year."},{"_id":"W5LYHR7ESNHI7HPHA7YMCXOMJA","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"In the 2015 Paris agreement, which is being celebrated here on its 10th anniversary, nations are supposed to have submitted climate-fighting, emissions-curbing plans every five years. So far 116 of 193 countries have filed theirs this year, but what they promised isn’t much. United Nations and Climate Action Tracker, a group of scientists, calculates that these new pledges barely reduced future projections for Earth's warming."},{"_id":"YPWAT5B5QVD7HOEOR2WPFFP2BE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Even if the world does all it promises, Earth would be about seven-tenths of a degree Celsius (1.3 degrees Fahrenheit) above the Paris goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times, the groups estimated."},{"_id":"TEPJ2SQZWFA4VF54BVYOLMJOVE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"So small island nations, led by Palau, asked that this conference confront the gap between what’s planned in national pledges and what’s needed to keep the world from hitting the temperature danger zone."},{"_id":"ZSBXJY6GEJC6JEOQXYNPPRAW2Y","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"That's not on the agenda for these talks. Nor are specific details on how to fulfill last year’s pledge by rich nations to provide $300 billion annually in climate financial aid."},{"_id":"WAK7QM44DBFBDATALAGGAJCUUU","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"So when nations early on wanted to address these issues, COP President André Corrêa do Lago, a veteran Brazilian diplomat, set up special small confabs to try to decide if the controversial topics should be discussed."},{"_id":"RRCFS4TC4ZGSDGAG2NE65PAY7M","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"On Saturday, the conference punted the issue to the incoming ministers."},{"_id":"WJSROY5X2BB73D2Z7SLX4JVO54","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“The parties will decide how they want to proceed,” do Lago said at a Saturday evening news conference. Given what countries are saying and past history that usually means a final end-of-COP message to the world, several experts said."},{"_id":"7WCXSEPYIBHXJJEHECXADMWSQ4","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"In a casual exchange with a reporter about how the conference is going, COP President do Lago said: “Eh, could be better but not as bad it could be.”"},{"level":2,"_id":"XTTZ2TRGJNB3VD5LZCWRQXA7RA","additional_properties":{},"type":"header","content":"Momentum to phase out fossil fuels"},{"_id":"JLWYJH4Q2ZD55CDXYKCA3FIDRU","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"U.N. General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock, the former German foreign minister who has been to 10 of these sessions, told The Associated Press Saturday morning before the evening's session that she saw “new momentum” in Belem."},{"_id":"ULVDXSJ7BFG4VAYVFGNBRXFBZY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“We can fight the climate crisis only together if we commit to a strong mitigation target,” she said. “This means also transitioning away from fossil fuels, investing into renewable energy.”"},{"_id":"YSC3STYPJFC2HLYW3FDQK5EUFQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Two years ago in Dubai, the world agreed to “transition away from fossil fuels,” but last year no mention of that was made and there've been no details on how or when to do this."},{"_id":"ZCT2GWL6HNFIRFSS2YX7COW34I","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Baerbock hailed as crucial Lula's call during the Leaders' Summit last week for “a road map for humanity to overcome, in a just and planned way, its dependence on fossil fuels, reverse deforestation, and mobilize the resources needed to do so.”"},{"_id":"AKDOW3VY2RAO5OWEDXAAX2IVUE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“I think what we have before us are the ingredients of a potential high-ambition package for the outcome of this conference,” Iskander Erzini Vernoit, executive director of the Moroccan IMAL Initiative for Climate and Development, said."},{"level":2,"_id":"ZGAZ36E6RJBM3NJGHRILNMLQWQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"header","content":"Getting Indigenous voices heard"},{"_id":"DPPLIMW2GBH3PPBDMUDNJDZGUU","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Indigenous groups breached and blockaded the venue twice this week with demands to be further included in the U.N. talks, despite this conference’s promotion as the “Indigenous Peoples’ COP.”"},{"_id":"XVAEYK47WNA33EUXZIAEGMQ5SQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The COP so far “was a testament that unfortunately, for Indigenous peoples to be heard, they actually need to be disruptive,” said Aya Khourshid, an Egyptian-Palestinian member of A Wisdom Keepers Delegation, a group of Indigenous people from around the world."},{"_id":"A4NNDYX4YJBDTNPAH4FY67PBIY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Indigenous people are putting a lot of energy “to be in this space but to not necessarily be given a platform or voice at the decision table with the ministers and those who are in power,” said Whaia, a Ngāti Kahungunu Wisdom Keeper."},{"_id":"T2Q5AC4TAVG4ZB7RVEJU27SBTQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“There's an imbalance here at COP30,\" she said. “There's the privileged and the not-so lucky who don't get a say on what's actually going on in their own home.”"},{"_id":"MCCV6VFIZNGIFLER77DLD6AC7U","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"___"},{"_id":"RAGCSL5L65C6ZBSR2KGR7C7BPE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The Associated Press’ climate and environmental coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. 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Boric is constitutionally barred from seeking a consecutive term."},{"_id":"KPUJCV4O2ZA6NFLYG64OMLXU7A","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"But an initial win for Jara may yet spell her defeat in a runoff against a right-wing rival who promises a harsher security crackdown."},{"_id":"YFCH3BX7A5AN3OGIQOUAZH56K4","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“If (Jara) moves toward being tougher on crime, the right can always be tougher,” said Disi. “It's a losing game.”"},{"level":2,"_id":"FKW5GJJFWRBB3ABH4MIHICCFUY","additional_properties":{},"type":"header","content":"Mandatory voting is a wildcard"},{"_id":"RE3WS4PB2BFFPBG2VZQZJES77U","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"This is the first time in Chile's history that all eligible citizens will be obliged to vote for president."},{"_id":"PZHRYQASQBDRPNLD3J7E4QZLEY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The country recently reintroduced mandatory voting after ending the practice in 2012. 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