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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 2018
Trump says he’ll be ‘signing something’ on detained children
By JILL COLVIN and
COLLEEN LONG
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Pres-
ident Donald Trump said he
would be signing an executive
order later today that would end
the process of separating chil-
dren from families after they
are detained crossing the bor-
der illegally.
“We want to keep families
together. It’s very important,”
Trump told reporters during
a White House meeting with
members of Congress. “I’ll be
signing something in a little
while that’s going to do that.”
The effort would mark a dra-
matic departure for an adminis-
tration that has been insisting,
wrongly, that it has no choice
but to separate families appre-
hended at the border because of
the law and a court decision.
Homeland Security Secre-
tary Kirstjen Nielsen, the pres-
ident and other officials have
repeatedly said the only way
to end the practice is for Con-
gress to pass new legislation,
though both Democrats and
some Republicans have said
the president could reverse it
by himself.
The news in recent days
has been dominated by searing
images of children held in cages
at border facilities, as well as
audio recordings of young chil-
dren crying for their parents —
images that have sparked fury,
question of morality and con-
cern from Republicans about
a negative impact on their
races in November’s midterm
elections.
AP Photo/Evan Vucci
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting today
with Republican members of Congress on immigration in
the Cabinet Room of the White House.
Trump pointed to those
images in his meeting, saying
they’d “affect everybody” but
that he was torn. “We want the
heart,” he said, “but we also
want strong borders and we
want no crime.”
Trump had tweeted earlier
today, “It’s the Democrats fault,
they won’t give us the votes
needed to pass good immi-
gration legislation. They want
open borders, which breeds
horrible crime. Republicans
want security. But I am work-
ing on something - it never
ends!”
The administration recently
put into place a “zero tol-
erance” policy in which all
unlawful border crossings are
referred for prosecution — a
process that moves adults to
the custody of the U.S. Mar-
shals Service and sends many
children to facilities run by
the Department of Health and
Human Services. Under the
Obama administration, such
families were usually referred
for civil deportation proceed-
ings, not requiring separation.
The policy had led to a
spike in family separations in
recent weeks, with more than
2,300 minors were separated
from their families at the bor-
der from May 5 through June 9,
according to the Department of
Homeland Security.
The action, according
to people familiar with it,
wouldn’t end the zero tolerance
policy, but would aim to keep
families together.
Justice Department law-
yers have been working to
find a legal workaround for a
class-action lawsuit settlement
that set policies for the treat-
ment and release of unaccom-
panied children who are caught
at the border, or crafting an
order that would defy the set-
tlement and force it back into
court to argue for changes.
WORLD IN BRIEF
ative or sponsor in the community as they await
immigration court hearings.
Associated Press
Youngest migrants held
in ‘tender age’ shelters
The Trump administration has set up at least
three “tender age” shelters where it can lock
up babies and other young children who have
been forcibly separated from their parents at the
U.S.-Mexico border.
Doctors and lawyers who have visited the
shelters in South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley said
the facilities were fine, clean and safe, but the
children — who have no idea where their par-
ents are — were hysterical, crying and acting
out . Many of them are under age 5, and some
are so young they’ve not yet learned to talk.
The government also plans to open a fourth
shelter to house hundreds of young migrant chil-
dren in Houston, where city leaders denounced
the move Tuesday.
Since the White House announced its zero
tolerance policy in early May, more than 2,300
children have been taken from their parents at
the U.S.-Mexico border, resulting in an influx
of young children requiring government care.
The government has already faced withering
critiques over images of some of the children in
cages inside U.S. Border Patrol processing sta-
tions. It faced renewed criticism for setting up
new places to hold these toddlers, decades after
orphanages were phased out over concerns
about the lasting trauma to children.
“The thought that they are going to be put-
ting such little kids in an institutional setting?
I mean it is hard for me to even wrap my mind
around it,” said Kay Bellor, vice president for
programs at Lutheran Immigration and Ref-
ugee Service, which provides foster care and
other child welfare services to migrant children.
“Toddlers are being detained.”
By law, child migrants traveling alone must
be sent to facilities run by the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services within three
days of being detained. The agency then is
responsible for placing the children in shelters
or foster homes until they are united with a rel-
US leaving UN’s
Human Rights Council,
cites anti-Israel bias
WASHINGTON — The United States is
leaving the United Nations’ Human Rights
Council, which Ambassador Nikki Haley called
“an organization that is not worthy of its name.”
It’s the latest withdrawal by the Trump adminis-
tration from an international institution.
Haley said Tuesday the U.S. had given the
human rights body “opportunity after oppor-
tunity” to make changes. She lambasted the
council for “its chronic bias against Israel” and
lamented the fact that its membership includes
accused human rights abusers such as China,
Cuba, Venezuela and Congo.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, appearing
alongside Haley at the State Department, said
there was no doubt that the council once had a
“noble vision.”
But today we need to be honest,” Pompeo
said. “The Human Rights Council is a poor
defender of human rights.”
The announcement came just a day after the
U.N. human rights chief, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein,
denounced the Trump administration for sepa-
rating migrant children from their parents. But
Haley cited longstanding U.S. complaints that
the 47-member council is biased against Israel.
She had been threatening the pull-out since last
year unless the council made changes advocated
by the U.S.
Still, she suggested the decision need not be
permanent, adding that if the council did adopt
reforms, “we would be happy to rejoin it.” She
said the withdrawal notwithstanding, the U.S.
would continue to defend human rights at the
United Nations.
The move extends a broader Trump admin-
istration pattern of stepping back from inter-
national agreements and forums under the
president’s “America First” policy. Although
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The Mouse chases
the Fox: Disney makes
$71B counteroffer
NEW YORK — Disney is offering more than
$71 billion for Fox’s entertainment businesses
in a counterbid to Comcast’s nearly $66 billion
offer .
The battle for Twenty-First Century Fox
reflects a new imperative among entertainment
and telecommunications firms. They are amass-
ing ever more programming to better compete
with technology companies such as Amazon and
Netflix for viewers’ attention — and dollars. The
bidding war comes after AT&T bought Time
Warner for $81 billion.
Disney’s move had been expected since Com-
cast made its bid last week. Disney said it’s rais-
ing its offer because Fox’s value increased due to
“tax reform and operating improvements.”
If Disney prevails, “Avatar” and other mov-
ies from Fox’s studios would help beef up Dis-
ney’s upcoming streaming service. Disney,
which already owns Marvel, would get back the
characters previously licensed to Fox, setting
the stage for X-Men and the Avengers to appear
together. If Comcast wins, it would get a larger
portfolio of cable channels including FX and
National Geographic.
In a call with analysts, CEO Bob Iger said
he believes Disney’s bid is superior to Com-
cast’s from a regulatory perspective. He said
that six months of dealing with regulators both
in the U.S. and internationally has given Disney
a “meaningful head start.”
Fox previously rejected a bid from an
unnamed company, widely believed to be Com-
cast, because of fears it would face regulatory
objections. But a federal judge’s approval of
AT&T’s bid for Time Warner signals that the
government might have difficulties mounting
antitrust challenges.
Divers search
Indonesian lake for 192
missing after sinking
TIGARAS, Indonesia — Distraught relatives
slammed Indonesia’s government for not enforc-
ing basic safety measures on passenger boats and
pleaded today for a bigger search effort for more
than 190 people presumed drowned after a ferry
sank on a picturesque Sumatran lake early this
week.
The wooden vessel, overcrowded with pas-
sengers as well as dozens of motorbikes, didn’t
have a manifest and disaster officials have sev-
eral times raised the number of people it was
carrying as family members who rushed to Lake
Toba in northern Sumatra provided information.
The boat was five times over its passenger
capacity of 43 and equipped with only 45 life
jackets. The latest information is that 192 peo-
ple are missing.
Only 18 survivors have been found —
in bad weather within hours of the sinking
Monday evening, which occurred in waters at
least 984 feet deep but only a third of a mile from
an island that’s popular with visitors to the lake.
It’s possible many of the victims were still
inside the sunken ferry, said North Sumatra
province police chief Paulus Waterpau.
“Many survivors told authorities that less
than half of them had jumped into the water
before the boat sank,” he said.
Several dozen divers were searching at depths
of up to 82 feet, and an underwater drone was
deployed to 656 feet below the surface. More
sophisticated underwater search methods require
large ships that aren’t available on the lake.
The 440-square mile Lake Toba, formed out
of an ancient super volcano, is a popular sight-
seeing destination on the island of Sumatra and
one of 10 stunning natural attractions in Indone-
sia that the government aims to develop as mag-
nets for international tourists.
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numerous officials have said repeatedly that
“America First does not mean America Alone,”
the administration has retreated from multiple
multilateral accords and consensuses since it
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