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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2018
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
US sending 5,200 troops
to border, double Syria
deployment
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is deploy-
ing 5,200 troops to the Southwest border in an
extraordinary military operation a week before
nationwide elections in which President Donald
Trump wants voters to focus on what he calls an
“invasion” — a slow-moving caravan of Central
American migrants.
The number of troops being sent is more than
double the 2,000 who are in Syria fighting the
Islamic State group.
Two caravans of migrants, traveling mostly
on foot, are still hundreds of miles from the U.S.
border with Mexico. Most are poor, carrying the
belongings that fit into a knapsack and fleeing
gang violence or poverty. And any who complete
the long trek to the border already face major hur-
dles to asylum in the country — both physical
and bureaucratic — to being allowed to remain
in the United States.
Trump, eager to keep voters trained on immi-
gration in the lead-up to the midterm elections,
stepped up his dire warnings about the caravans,
tweeting, “This is an invasion of our Country and
our Military is waiting for you!”
In a late Monday interview, Trump said the
U.S. would build tent cities for asylum seekers.
“We’re going to put tents up all over the
place,” he told Fox News Channel’s Laura Ingra-
ham. “They’re going to be very nice, and they’re
going to wait, and if they don’t get asylum they
get out.”
Military officials said in announcing the
deployment of 5,200 active-duty troops that tents
were being provided as temporary housing for
border agents. A U.S. official said today that in
addition to the 5,200, the Pentagon has put 2,000
to 3,000 other active-duty troops on standby in
case they also are needed at the border.
Under current protocol, migrants who clear
an initial screening are often released until their
cases are decided in immigration court, which
can take several years.
The Pentagon’s Operation Faithful Patriot
was described by the commander of U.S. North-
ern Command as an effort to help Customs and
Border Protection “harden the southern border”
by stiffening defenses at and near legal entry
points. Advanced helicopters will allow border
protection agents to swoop down on migrants
trying to cross illegally, said Air Force Gen. Ter-
rence O’Shaughnessy.
Trump: End birthright
citizenship for some US-
born babies
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump
is making another hardline immigration play,
declaring that he wants to order an end to the con-
stitutional right to citizenship for babies born in
the United States to non-citizens. Trump has long
called for an end to birthright citizenship, as have
many conservatives. An executive order would
spark an uphill legal battle for Trump about
whether the president has the unilateral ability to
declare that children born in the U.S. to those liv-
ing here illegally aren’t citizens. Most scholars
think he can’t.
Asked about the legality of such an executive
order, Trump said, “they’re saying I can do it just
with an executive order.” He added that “we’re
the only country in the world where a person
comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essen-
tially a citizen of the United States.”
A 2010 study from the Center for Immigra-
tion Studies, a group that supports immigration
restrictions, showed that 30 countries offered
birthright citizenship.
The Pew Research Center found in a survey
published two years ago that births to “unautho-
rized immigrants” were declining and accounted
for about 1 in 3 births to foreign-born mothers
in the U.S. in 2014. About 275,000 babies were
born to such parents in 2014, or about 7 per-
cent of the 4 million births in the U.S. that year,
according to Pew estimates based on government
data. That represented a decline from 330,000 in
2009, at the end of the recession.
A person familiar with the internal White
House debate said the topic of birthright citizen-
ship had come up inside the West Wing at vari-
ous times over at least the last year, but has some
internal detractors. White House lawyers have
debated the topic, and expect to work with the
Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel
to develop a legal justification for the action. It
is one of many immigration changes being dis-
cussed including asylum law changes, and bar-
ring the migrant caravan from entering the
country.
Omar Jadwat, director of the Immigrants’
Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties
Union in New York, said today that the Consti-
tution is very clear.
“If you are born in the United States, you’re a
citizen,” he said, adding that it was “outrageous
that the president can think he can override con-
stitutional guarantees by issuing an executive
order.”
Synagogue shooter was
obsessed with Jewish
refugee agency
Just moments before the Pittsburgh synagogue
shooting that left 11 people dead, the suspect is
believed to have posted a final social media rant
against a Jewish refugee settlement agency most
people had never heard of, but which has increas-
ingly become the target of right-wing rage and
conspiracy theories.
“HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our
people,” Robert Gregory Bowers wrote on the
platform Gab early Saturday. “I can’t sit by and
watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your
optics, I’m going in.”
The group, formerly known as the Hebrew
Immigrant Aid Society, was founded in 1881 in
a Manhattan storefront to assist Jews persecuted
in Russia and Eastern Europe. HIAS is now
among nine groups that contract with the State
Department to help refugees settle in the United
States, and it has recently clashed with the Trump
administration over policies that have throttled
the flow of such newcomers.
Leaders of HIAS and the group’s Pittsburgh
affiliate vowed to continue their work.
“We were the perfect target for this murderer,
because we’re Jewish and we help refugees. So
he gets to check off the two hate boxes,” Mark
Hetfield, president and CEO of HIAS, told a
news conference today in Pittsburgh.
Hetfield said HIAS is getting flooded with
donations, with more coming in from non-Jews
around the world than Jews for the first time in
the organization’s history.
Analysts who follow the extreme right say the
fixation some extremists have with HIAS appears
to be fueled by a mix of anti-Semitism and the
recent caustic rhetoric about an immigrant cara-
van trudging slowly toward the United States.
Specifically, they believe Bowers ascribed to
the “white genocide” conspiracy, which holds
that Jews are prominent among the forces seek-
ing to destroy the “white race” by bringing in
non-white people.
Based in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Sil-
ver Spring, HIAS has an annual operating bud-
get of $42 million and receives about half of its
money from the federal government. It has reset-
tled refugees of different faiths from Afghan-
istan, Vietnam, Iran and elsewhere. Among
the thousands of people it has aided are Goo-
gle co-founder Sergey Brin and singer Regina
Spektor.
Though HIAS strongly supports the rights of
asylum seekers to a fair hearing, it has no con-
nection to the immigrant caravan, said spokes-
man Bill Swersey.
Thousands of Syrians
stuck in the desert risk
starvation
BEIRUT — Tens of thousands of Syrians
stranded in a desert camp near the Jordanian bor-
der are at risk of starvation amid dwindling sup-
plies and the approach of winter, while regional
powers trade blame over who is responsible for
this latest humanitarian catastrophe in Syria’s
civil war.
Desperately needed aid deliveries to the
besieged Rukban camp have repeatedly failed or
been postponed, including a U.N. convoy which
was supposed to go in on Thursday but has now
been indefinitely delayed.
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Attention ORFF
Clatsop Community College is
hiring for the following positions:
Special Projects and
Compliance
Coordinator:
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assignment continues thru
June 30, 2020. Position open
until filled with first review of
applications on November 2,
2018.
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