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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2018
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Father of vet
shot at VA feels
betrayed
SALEM — The father of
a veteran with post-traumatic
stress disorder who was shot at
a government clinic in Oregon
blames Veterans Affairs for let-
ting down his son.
Gilbert “Matt” Negrete, who
served in Iraq and Afghanistan,
is in jail in the former timber
town of Medford, charged with
attempted assault and other
crimes after he allegedly dis-
played a knife during a confron-
tation at the VA clinic in nearby
White City on Jan. 25. A VA
guard shot him in the chest.
“First they shoot him, now
they’re gonna try to put him
away,” said his father, Gilbert
Negrete. “You would think
they would have some concern
about us. My son needs help not
prison.”
Matt Negrete, the father
of three children, had become
upset when he went to the clinic
for treatment and was told to
come back later, said Christine
Kantas Herbert, his court-ap-
pointed attorney. The sher-
iff’s office says Negrete was
paranoid and incoherent and
that investigators were told he
hadn’t complained about health
care or VA policies.
“Mr. Negrete returned from
combat seeking treatment and
was turned away, time and time
again,” Herbert said.
Brent Brooks, who served
with Negrete in the 10th Moun-
tain Division, said he was a
“really driven, goal-oriented”
soldier. Their unit maintained
Kiowa helicopters and some-
times came under mortar fire.
In Afghanistan, their second
deployment, a mortar round tore
apart a wooden shack 20 yards
from their own, wounding all
the soldiers inside, Brooks said.
Negrete, whose bail is set at
$265,000, faces trial on charges
stemming from incidents over
three days — including driving
under the influence of a con-
trolled substance, attempting
to elude police and menacing
— that culminated in the clinic
incident, said Deputy District
Attorney Laure Cromwell.
May Day
protests target
Trump, fall
elections
NEW YORK — Immi-
grants say President Donald
Trump’s administration has
become almost everything they
feared, but while they rally
across the United States on
May Day, their focus is less on
huge turnout today than on the
first Tuesday in November.
Marches and other demon-
strations for labor and immi-
grant rights were planned from
Florida to New York to Cali-
fornia on International Work-
ers’ Day and come amid similar
actions worldwide.
Immigrant rights groups
have joined in May Day activ-
ities for more than a decade,
initially to push back against
harsh legislative proposals and
later to clamor for reform and
legal status for immigrants in
the country illegally who were
brought to the U.S. as children
or overstayed their visas.
Now, they want to drive
turnout in the midterm elec-
tions. Advocates hope voters
target lawmakers who have
pushed for measures that hurt
immigrants and replace them
with immigrant-friendly poli-
cymakers, said Angelica Salas,
executive director of the Coa-
lition for Humane Immigrant
Rights in Los Angeles.
Protesters still are taking
aim at policy changes under
Trump, including a coun-
try-specific travel ban, the
end of the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals program,
high-profile detention and
deportation efforts, and propos-
als to cut back the overall num-
bers of people allowed to immi-
grate permanently.
Trump and his supporters
say the enforcement and policy
changes are needed for national
security and economic benefits.
Some of the new policies have
gotten tangled up in court, and
Trump hasn’t secured funding
for his coveted border wall with
Mexico.
US delays
decision on
tariffs for EU
WASHINGTON — The
U.S. government will take
another 30 days to decide
whether to impose tariffs on
imports of steel and aluminum
from the European Union,
Canada and Mexico, extend-
ing a period of uncertainty for
businesses in those regions.
The delay helps the U.S.
avoid a potential trade war
with allies as it prepares for
tense trade talks in China this
week. But the EU slammed the
decision as bad for business
that “prolongs market uncer-
tainty, which is already affect-
ing business decisions.”
“As a longstanding partner
and friend of the U.S., we will
not negotiate under threat,”
the EU said in a statement
Tuesday.
The Trump administration
said Monday it had reached an
agreement with South Korea
on steel imports following dis-
cussions on a revised trade
agreement. And the adminis-
tration said it had also reached
agreements in principle with
Argentina, Australia and Bra-
zil on steel and aluminum that
will be finalized shortly.
Facing a self-imposed dead-
line, President Donald Trump
was considering whether to
permanently exempt the EU
and Mexico, Canada, Aus-
tralia, Argentina and Brazil
from tariffs of 25 percent on
imported steel and 10 percent
on imported aluminum that
his administration imposed in
March. The White House had
given itself until the end of
Monday to decide whether to
extend the exemptions.
The EU has taken a tough
stance, raising the prospect of
a trade war if the U.S. does not
back down. It has a list of retal-
iatory tariffs worth about $3.5
billion on imports from the
U.S. that it will activate if the
EU loses its exemption.
Germany said it contin-
ues to expect a permanent
exemption. The EU’s larg-
est steel exporter to the U.S.,
it accounted for about 5 per-
cent of U.S. steel imports last
year.
indicated to Trump’s lawyers
that he’s not considered a tar-
get, investigators remain inter-
ested in whether the president’s
actions constitute obstruction
of justice and want to inter-
view him about several episodes
in office. The lawyers want
to resolve the investigation as
quickly as possible, but there’s
no agreement on how to do that.
Many of the questions
obtained by the Times center on
the obstruction issue, including
his reaction to Attorney General
Jeff Sessions’ recusal from the
Russia investigation, a decision
Trump has angrily criticized.
Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow
declined to comment to The
Associated Press on Monday
night, as did White House law-
yer Ty Cobb.
Mueller gives
questions to
Trump lawyers
WASHINGTON — Spe-
cial counsel Robert Mueller has
given a list of almost four dozen
questions to lawyers for Presi-
dent Donald Trump as part of his
investigation into Russian med-
dling in the 2016 election and
whether Trump obstructed jus-
tice, according to a report pub-
lished in The New York Times.
The Times obtained a list of
the questions, which range from
Trump’s motivations for fir-
ing FBI Director James Comey
a year ago to contacts Trump’s
campaign had with Russians.
Although Mueller’s team has
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