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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2018
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
US judge stalls
enforcement of Trump
asylum restrictions
AP Photo/David Banks
Chicago police officers and firefighters form an honor guard as the body of Chicago
Police Officer Samuel Jimenez is brought to the coroner Monday.
Gunman in Chicago hospital
shooting had prior complaint
CHICAGO — A man who fatally shot his ex-fiancee outside a Chicago hospital before kill-
ing two people inside the building was the subject of a protection order request filed four years
ago by another woman, yet he had legally purchased several guns in recent years, police said
today.
The gunman, Juan Lopez, who also died following the shooting Monday at Mercy Hospital,
had been engaged to Dr. Tamara O’Neal before he repeatedly shot the emergency room doc-
tor near a hospital parking lot. Investigators said he continued shooting O’Neil after she fell to
the ground and, after running into the hospital, killed a police officer and a pharmacy worker.
Another woman complained in 2014 that Lopez was incessantly texting her and refused to
stop. The woman called police and sought an order of protection from a judge, but it’s unclear
whether she was granted such an order. Lopez was not criminally charged.
Lopez had a permit to possess a concealed firearm, but it’s unclear if officials knew about
the 2014 complaint when the permit was granted. Lopez had legally purchased four guns in the
last five years and worked for the Chicago Housing Authority.
Investigators identified the other shooting victims as Dayna Less, 25, a first-year pharmacy
resident who had recently graduated from Purdue University, and Officer Samuel Jimenez, 28,
who joined the police department in February 2017 and had recently completed his probation-
ary period. He was married and the father of three children.
“This officer, all of those officers are heroes, they saved a lot of lives because we just don’t
know how much damage he was prepared to do,” Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie John-
son said late Monday outside another hospital, just minutes after leaving the slain officer’s
family.
HOUSTON — A federal judge has barred
the Trump administration from refusing asy-
lum to immigrants who cross the southern bor-
der illegally.
President Donald Trump issued a proclama-
tion on Nov. 9 circumventing immigration law,
saying anyone who crossed the southern border
between official ports of entry would be ineli-
gible for asylum.
As the first of several caravans of migrants
have started arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border,
Trump said the restrictions were necessary to
stop what he’s called a national security threat.
He also sent thousands of active-duty troops
to the border to back up immigration officials
there.
But in his ruling Monday, U.S. District
Judge Jon Tigar agreed with legal groups that
immediately sued, arguing that U.S. immigra-
tion law clearly allows someone to seek asylum
even if they enter the country between official
ports of entry and temporarily barred the ruling
from going into place while the case is heard.
“Whatever the scope of the President’s
authority, he may not rewrite the immigration
laws to impose a condition that Congress has
expressly forbidden,” said Tigar, a nominee of
former President Barack Obama.
It was the latest legal challenge to thwart
the Trump administration’s effort to harden the
U.S.-Mexico border without Congress chang-
ing any laws, including an effort to try to detain
migrant families in long-term facilities. Trump
stopped family separations at the border earlier
this year after a global outcry, but it was a fed-
eral judge who ruled the administration had to
reunify the families.
Trump criticizes war
hero for not killing bin
Laden sooner
WASHINGTON — President Donald
Trump has ignited a firestorm of criticism and
charges that he is politicizing the military by
faulting a war hero for not killing al-Qaida
leader Osama bin Laden sooner.
Trump took verbal shots at retired Adm.
William McRaven in a weekend Fox News
interview in which he also asserted that the
former Navy SEAL and former commander
of U.S. Special Operations Command was a
“backer” of Trump’s 2016 rival Hillary Clinton
and a supporter of President Barack Obama.
“Disgusting,” the George W. Bush adminis-
tration’s White House counterterrorism adviser,
Fran Townsend, wrote Monday on Twitter.
Leon Panetta, who was CIA director during
the bin Laden raid and later served as secre-
tary of defense, said Trump owed an apology
to McRaven and to all of those in the military
and intelligence agencies who played a role
in tracking down bin Laden and carrying out
the risky raid into Pakistan. He called Trump’s
remark “patently ridiculous.”
“It demonstrates a profound lack of under-
standing of how our military and intelligence
agencies operate and undermines the presi-
dent’s own standing as commander-in-chief,”
Panetta said in a statement.
The controversy follows a pattern of con-
cerns raised by former senior military offi-
cers about Trump’s grasp of the military’s role.
Some assert that his decision to send thousands
of active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico bor-
der shortly before the Nov. 6 midterm elections
was a political stunt.
Trump also drew criticism for his deci-
sion not to visit Arlington National Cemetery
on Veterans Day last week, following his trip
to Europe. He said later he “should have” vis-
ited the cemetery but was too busy with offi-
cial business.
Suicide bomber
targets clerics in Afghan
capital, 50 killed
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber
targeted a gathering of hundreds of Islamic
scholars in the Afghan capital today, killing at
least 50 people as Muslims around the world
marked the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad.
Public Health Ministry spokesman Wahid
Majroh said another 83 people were wounded
in the attack, with 20 of them in critical condi-
tion and the toll likely to rise.
The suicide bomber was able to sneak into
a wedding hall in Kabul where hundreds of
Muslim religious scholars and clerics had gath-
ered to mark the holiday. No one immediately
claimed the attack, but both the Taliban and a
local Islamic State affiliate have targeted reli-
gious scholars aligned with the government in
the past.
Police sealed off roads leading to the scene
of the attack. Hundreds of family members and
relatives gathered at local hospitals, looking
at lists of those killed and wounded that were
posted outside.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani condemned
the bombing, calling it “an attack on Islamic
values and followers of the Prophet Muham-
mad,” and declaring Wednesday a day of
mourning.
“It is an attack on humanity,” Ghani said.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan also
condemned the bombing and expressed con-
dolences to the victims. Afghanistan and the
United States have long accused Pakistan of
harboring the Taliban, whose leadership is
based there. Pakistan denies the allegations,
and says it uses its limited influence over the
group to encourage peace efforts.
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