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Page 8 The Skanner Portland & Seattle May 8, 2019 News Appeals Court: Trump Can Make Asylum Seekers Wait in Mexico SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Trump ad- ministration can make asylum seekers wait in Mexico for immigration court hearings while the policy is challenged in court, handing the president a major victory, even if it only proves tempo- rary. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — a frequent target of the president’s complaints — reversed a decision by a San Francisco judge that would have prevented asylum seekers from being returned to Mexico during the legal challenge. The case must still be considered on its merits and could end up at the Su- preme Court. But allowing the policy to remain in effect in the meantime lets the administration carry out an unprecedented change to U.S. asylum practices. The administration has said it plans to rapidly expand the policy across the border, which would have far-reach- ing consequences for asylum seekers Iran Inches Away From Nuclear Deal Amid US Sanctions tions on Iran, exacerbating a severe economic crisis. The Iranian rial, which traded at 32,000 to $1 at the time of the accord, traded Wednesday at 153,500. AP PHOTO/VAHID SALEMI World News Briefs and Mexican border cit- ies that host them while their cases wind through clogged U.S. immigration courts. Cases can take several years to decide. The policy was chal- lenged by 11 Central Americans and advoca- cy groups that argued it jeopardized asylum seekers by forcing them to stay in Mexico, where crime and drug violence are prevalent. People walk at a traditional bazaar south of Tehran, Iran, May 8. Iran threatened Wednesday to enrich its uranium stockpile closer to weapons-grade levels in 60 days if world powers fail to negotiate new terms for its 2015 nuclear deal, raising regional tensions as a U.S. aircraft carrier and bombers head to the Middle East to confront Tehran. TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran threatened Wednesday to resume higher enrich- ment of uranium in 60 days if world powers fail to negotiate new terms for its 2015 nuclear deal a year after Presi- dent Donald Trump withdrew from the accord, raising tensions as a U.S. air- craft carrier and a bomber wing deploy to confront unspecified threats from Tehran. In a televised address, President Has- san Rouhani also said that Iran would stop exporting excess uranium and heavy water from its nuclear program, two requirements of the deal. He did the original Social Media NEWS not elaborate on the degree to which Iran was prepared to enrich uranium, which at high levels of enrichment can be used in nuclear weapons. Rouhani said Iran wanted to negoti- ate new terms with remaining partners in the deal, but acknowledged that the situation was dire. “We felt that the nuclear deal needs a surgery and the painkiller pills of the last year have been ineffective,” Rou- hani said. “This surgery is for saving the deal, not destroying it.” The 2015 deal lifted sanctions on Iran in exchange for limits on its nuclear program. After the U.S. withdrew from the accord it restored crippling sanc- Students Kill Classmate, Injure 8 at School Near Columbine HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (AP) — Two high school students shot and killed a classmate and injured eight others at a charter school in a Colorado community that marked the 20th an- niversary of one of the nation’s worst school shootings just weeks ago. Douglas County sheriff ’s officials said Devon Erickson, 18, and a younger student walked into the STEM School Highlands Ranch Tuesday afternoon and opened fire on students in two classrooms, prompting students to run shouting through the halls or to hide out of sight as gunfire echoed through school. “At the moment no one really knew what was going on so I didn’t know they were bullets,” said seventh-grader Sophia Marks. “I just kind of saw like flashes and we heard bangs.” Within minutes, deputies at a near- by sheriff ’s department substation en- tered the school and arrested the two suspects after a struggle. Both were students at the school and they were not previously known to authorities, Sheriff Tony Spurlock said.
