{"id":65797,"date":"2026-02-09T08:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/hundreds-protested-this-venezuelans-detention-by-ice-now-hes-free-after-seven-months\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T08:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:58:15","slug":"hundreds-protested-this-venezuelans-detention-by-ice-now-hes-free-after-seven-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/hundreds-protested-this-venezuelans-detention-by-ice-now-hes-free-after-seven-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds protested this Venezuelan\u2019s detention by ICE. Now he\u2019s free after seven months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Case continues against those who protested Joswar Torres\u2019 arrest, with prosecutors seeking six years\u2019 imprisonment<\/p>\n<p>A Venezuelan migrant whose detention by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)<\/a> sparked a protest that involved nearly 2,000 people and led to 30 arrests is free after spending seven months in custody in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/washington-state\">Washington state<\/a>, after a ruling from a federal judge who said his constitutional rights had been violated.<\/p>\n<p>Joswar Torres, 29, was granted humanitarian parole in the United States and had an asylum application pending, but was nevertheless detained in June 2025 after a routine check-in at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) office in Spokane, Washington.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/09\/venezuelan-freed-after-seven-months-ice-detention-washington-state\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case continues against those who protested Joswar Torres\u2019 arrest, with prosecutors seeking six years\u2019 imprisonment A Venezuelan migrant whose detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sparked a protest that involved nearly 2,000 people and led to 30 arrests is free after spending seven months in custody in Washington state, after a ruling from a &#8230; <a title=\"Hundreds protested this Venezuelan\u2019s detention by ICE. Now he\u2019s free after seven months\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/hundreds-protested-this-venezuelans-detention-by-ice-now-hes-free-after-seven-months\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hundreds protested this Venezuelan\u2019s detention by ICE. Now he\u2019s free after seven months\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}