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Page 8A NATION/WORLD East Oregonian Saturday, September 5, 2015 Man at center of immigration debate faces murder trial By PAUL ELIAS Associated Press AP Photo/DHA, File In this Sept. 2 photo, a paramilitary police officer car- ries the lifeless body of Aylan Kurdi, 3, after a number of migrants died and others were reported missing when boats carrying them to the Greek island of Kos capsized near the Turkish resort of Bodrum. AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File A woman looks out of a train that has stopped in Bicske, Hungary on Firday. Over 150,000 migrants have reached Hungary this year, most coming through the south- ern border with Serbia. Many apply for asylum but quickly try to leave for richer EU countries. Austria, Germany will take Hungarian refugees BICSKE, Hungary (AP) — After misery, delivery. Hundreds of migrants, exhausted after breaking away from police and marching for hours toward Western Europe, boarded buses provided by Hungary’s government as Austria in the early-morning hours said it and Germany would let them in. Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann announced the decision early Saturday after speaking with Angela Merkel, his German counterpart — not long after Hungary’s surprise nighttime move to provide buses for the weary travelers from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. With people streaming in long lines along highways from a Budapest train station and near a migrant reception center in this northern town, the buses would be used because “transportation safety can’t be put at risk,” said Janos Lazar, chief of staff to the prime minister. Lazar blamed Germany’s “contradictory communications” and the European Union for the crisis. The asylum seekers had already made dangerous treks in scorching heat, crawling under barbed wire on Hungary’s southern frontier and facing the hostility of some locals DORQJWKHZD\7KHLU¿UVWVWRSZLOOEH$XVWULD on Hungary’s western border, though most hope to eventually reach Germany. Hungarian authorities had refused to let them board trains to the west, and the migrants balked at going to processing centers, fearing they would be forced to live in Hungary. Under European law, refugees are VXSSRVHGWRVHHNDV\OXPLQWKH¿UVW(XURSHDQ Union country they enter. But many see limited economic opportunities and a less welcoming atmosphere in Hungary than in Germany, Sweden and other Western nations. In what the Hungarian media called a “day of uprisings,” about 350 people broke through a police cordon Friday and began heading to Austria, 85 miles to the west, on tracks leading away from the railway station. Surprised riot police scrambled for their helmets as the crowd surged from the front of the train. One man, a 51-year-old Pakistani, collapsed about 800 yards from the station and died despite efforts to rescue him. Those left behind, mostly women and children, were boarded onto buses and taken to the nearby asylum center. Hours earlier, about 2,000 people set out from Budapest’s Keleti station for a 106-mile MRXUQH\WRWKH$XVWULDQERUGHU$W¿UVWSROLFH tried to block them, but they quickly gave up. By nightfall, the marchers had already covered about 30 miles. Along the way, some met with gestures of VXSSRUW0DQ\ÀDVKHGWKH9VLJKWIRUYLFWRU\ while some handed out bottles of water to the weary travelers. A small number made clear the new arrivals were not welcome. “Go home already,” one man shouted in Hungarian from a passing car. Austrian police were making preparations at main border points, with reception areas DQG ¿UVW DLG IDFLOLWLHV +DQV 3HWHU 'RVNR]LO police chief in easternmost Burgeland prov- LQFHVDLGWKRVHPHDVXUHVVKRXOGEHVXI¿FLHQW for the initial arrivals. Also Friday, the Hungarian parliament tightened its immigration rules, approving the creation of transit zones on the Hungarian border with Serbia where migrants would be kept until their asylum requests were decided within eight days. Migrants would have limited chance to appeal those decisions. One man leaving Budapest on foot said he expected the journey to Austria to take three days. Osama Morzar, 23, from Aleppo, Syria, was so determined not to be registered in Hungary that he removed his ¿QJHUSULQWV ZLWK DFLG KROGLQJ XS WRWDOO\ VPRRWK ¿QJHU SDGV WR DQ$VVRFLDWHG 3UHVV reporter as proof. Wrenching images of a drowned Syrian boy focused the world's attention this week on the plight of people fleeing their homelands. But the crisis has been developing for years. Here are other indelible images taken by Associated Press photographers. AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski, File In this Aug. 12 photo, migrants try to board a train that would take them toward Serbia at the railway station in the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija. AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File In this Aug. 5 photo, a migrant jumps a fence as he attempts to access the Channel Tunnel in Calais, northern France. Thousands of migrants have been scaling fences near the Channel Tunnel linking the two countries and boarding freight trains or trucks destined for Britain. AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski, File In this Aug. 17 photo, a migrant hides under a train heading to Serbia at the railway station in the south- ern Macedonian town of Gevgelija. Over 1,000 mi- grants from Middle East, Asia and Africa, enter Mace- donia daily from Greece, heading north through the Balkans on their way to the more prosperous Euro- pean Union countries. When Caring, Quality and Commitment Make a Difference. BRIEFLY House Benghazi panel interviews top aide to Clinton WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior member of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s inner FLUFOHWHVWL¿HG)ULGD\EHIRUH a House panel investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Libya as a nasty spat erupted between a Republican staffer DQGD'HPRFUDWLFODZPDNHU who insists it’s time for the committee to disband. Jake Sullivan, a former policy director and deputy chief of staff under Clinton DWWKH6WDWH'HSDUWPHQWZDV questioned by the panel in a daylong session of testimony behind closed doors. Sullivan said at the close of the day that he was proud to talk about the “extraordinary service” of his former colleagues at the 6WDWH'HSDUWPHQW “I was happy to answer every question the committee had and now I’m looking forward to Labor 'D\ZHHNHQG´KHWROG reporters, refusing to talk about the session further because of its closed-door nature. Unemployment rate falls to 7-year low WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. unemployment fell to a seven-year low of 5.1 percent last month, but hiring slowed — a mixed bag of news that offers few clues to whether the Federal Reserve will raise rock- bottom interest rates later this month. 7KH/DERU'HSDUWPHQW report, issued Friday, was closely watched because it will be the last snapshot of the job market before the Fed meets in two weeks. And overall, it painted a picture of an economy growing at a modest but steady pace seven years after the Great Recession. But it wasn’t the unambiguous signal many on Wall Street were hoping for. The unemployment rate fell from 5.3 percent in July to its lowest point since 2008 and is now at a level Fed RI¿FLDOVVD\LVFRQVLVWHQW with a healthy economy. But employers added a moderate 173,000 jobs in August, the IHZHVWLQ¿YHPRQWKV sanctions. The White House already clinched the necessary Senate votes to ensure that even if Obama ends up having to veto a disapproval resolution set for a vote next week, his veto would be upheld. But with that support in hand and more piling SAN FRANCISCO — A judge ruled Friday that a man at the center of the national immigration debate must stand trial on a murder charge in the shooting of a young San Francisco woman. Juan Francisco Lopez-San- chez, 45, is charged with second-degree murder in the July 1 killing of 32-year-old Kate Steinle as she walked with her father and a family friend along the San Francisco waterfront. He could face life in prison if convicted. 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