NATION/WORLD Tuesday, November 10, 2015 East Oregonian Page 7A Appeals court rules against Obama immigration plan By KEVIN MCGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — President Barack Obama’s plan to protect from deportation an estimated 5 million people living in the United States illegally suffered another setback Monday in a ruling from a New Orleans-based federal appeals court. In a 2-1 ruling, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Texas-based federal judge’s injunc- tion blocking the administration’s immigration initiative. Republicans had criticized the plan as an illegal executive over- reach when Obama announced it last November. Twenty-six states challenged the plan in court. The administration argued that the executive branch was within its rights in deciding to defer deportation of selected groups of immigrants, including children who were brought to the U.S. illegally. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was praised the ruling. “President Obama should abandon his lawless executive amnesty program and start enforcing the law today,” Abbott said in a news release. The ruling further dims prospects of implementation of the executive DFWLRQ EHIRUH 2EDPD OHDYHV RI¿FH in 2017. Appeals over the injunction could take months and, depending on how the case unfolds, it could go back to the Texas federal court for more proceedings. Part of the initiative included expansion of a program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, protecting young immi- grants from deportation if they were brought to the U.S. illegally as children. The other major part, Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, would extend deporta- tion protections to parents of U.S. citizens and permanent residents who have been in the country for years. The 70-page majority opinion by Judge Jerry Smith, joined by Jennifer Walker Elrod, rejected administration arguments that the district judge abused his discretion with a nationwide order and that the states lacked standing to challenge Obama’s executive orders. They acknowledged an argu- ment that an adverse ruling would GLVFRXUDJHSRWHQWLDOEHQH¿FLDULHVRI the plan from cooperating with law enforcement authorities or paying taxes. “But those are burdens that Congress knowingly created, and it is not our place to second-guess those decisions,” Smith wrote. Missouri president, chancellor leave over tension at university By SUMMER BALLENTINE AND JIM SUHR Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. — The president of the University of Missouri system and the KHDG RI LWV ÀDJVKLS FDPSXV resigned Monday with the football team and others on campus in open revolt over what they saw as indifference to racial tensions at the school. President Tim Wolfe, a former business executive with no previous experience in academic leadership, took “full responsibility for the frustration” students expressed and said their complaints were “clear” and “real.” For months, black student groups had complained that Wolfe was unresponsive to racial slurs and other slights on the overwhelmingly white main campus of the state’s four-college system. The complaints came to a head two days ago, when at least 30 black football players announced they would not play until the president left. A graduate student went on a weeklong hunger strike. Wolfe’s announcement came at the start of what had been expected to be a lengthy closed-door meeting of the school’s governing board. “This is not the way change comes about,” he said, alluding to recent protests, in a halting statement that was simultaneously apologetic, FOXPV\ DQG GH¿DQW ³:H stopped listening to each other.” He urged students, faculty and staff to use the resignation “to heal and start talking again to make the changes necessary.” Hours later, the top administrator of the Columbia campus, Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin, announced he would step down at the end of the year and shift to leading BRIEFLY Israel lacks evidence against extremists in arson attack JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is still lacking evidence to charge those responsible for a deadly arson attack on a Palestinian family this summer, Israeli media reported the country’s defense minister as saying Monday, in a case that Palestinians say helped fuel the past weeks of bloodshed. In July, assailants, believed to be Jewish extremists, OREEHGD¿UHERPELQWRWKH'DZDEVKHKIDPLO\¶VKRPH in the West Bank village of Duma, where four family members were asleep. Ali Dawabsheh, a toddler, was burned to death, while his mother and father later died of their wounds. His 4-year-old brother Ahmad is being treated in an Israeli hospital. Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said a “group of Jewish fanatics” who want to install a “religious kingdom” based on biblical law were behind the attack. But Yaalon said, “We don’t currently have evidence that directly ties the one who carried out the terror attack but I believe we will get that, I hope that we will solve the case completely,” Yaalon said. Five killed in rare shooting attack in Jordan police training center AP Photo/Jeff Roberson Jonathan Butler, front left, addresses a crowd following the announcement that University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe would resign Monday, Nov. 9, 2015, at the university in Columbia, Mo. research efforts. The school’s undergrad- uate population is 79 percent white and 8 percent black. The state is about 83 percent white and nearly 12 percent black. The Columbia campus is about 120 miles west of Ferguson, Missouri, where Michael Brown was killed last year in a shooting that helped spawn the national “Black Lives Matter” movement rebuking police treatment of minorities. In response to the race complaints, Wolfe had taken little public action and made few statements. As students leveled more grievances this fall, he was increasingly seen as aloof, out of touch and insensitive to their concerns. He soon became the protesters’ main target. In a statement issued Sunday, Wolfe acknowledged that “change is needed” and said the university was working to draw up a plan by April to promote diversity and tolerance. But by the end of that day, a campus sit-in had grown in size, graduate student groups planned walk- outs and politicians began to weigh in. Sophomore Katelyn Brown said she wasn’t necessarily aware of chronic racism at the school, but she applauded the efforts of black student groups. “I personally don’t see it a lot, but I’m a middle-class white girl,” she said. “I stand with the people experiencing this.” She credited social media with propelling the protests, saying it offered “a platform to unite.” At a news conference Monday, head football coach Gary Pinkel said his players were concerned with the health of Jonathan Butler, who had not eaten for a week as part of protests against Wolfe. “During those discus- sions,” athletic director Mack Rhoades said, “there was never any talk about anybody losing their job. It was simply and primarily about a young man’s life.” After Wolfe’s announce- ment, Butler ended his strike. He appeared weak and unsteady as two people helped him into a sea of celebrants on campus. Many broke into dance upon seeing him. AP Photo/Chris Park, File In this Nov. 30, 2006, file photo, four killer whales leap out of the water while performing during SeaWorld’s Shamu show in San Diego. pool at SeaWorld Orlando. Attendance has dropped the most at the San Diego location, and the decision to end orca shows will be limited for now to that park, the original home RI6KDPXLWV¿UVWRUFD The shows will continue at the other two SeaWorld parks in San Antonio and Orlando. The killer whale shows at the Shamu stadium in San Diego were the park’s main draw in the 1970s and helped build SeaWorld as a top tourist attraction. Trainers would ride the whales in the giant pool before getting out and signaling for the orca to slap its tail in the water to splash spectators in a “splash zone.” After Brancheau’s death, trainers stopped going in the water during the shows, but they continue to swim with the killer whales while training them. Manby told investors Monday that California customers want to see less theatrical production, so the new attraction will have a strong conservation message. “They want the orca experience to be activities the whales do in the wild,” Manby said. “Things they perceive as tricks, they don’t like as well.” However, that’s not “universal across our proper- ties,” he added. The news came days after SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. reported its third-quarter earnings missed Wall Street expectations. SeaWorld earlier this year announced plans for a $100 million expansion of the killer whale tanks in San Diego to boost attendance, but the California Coastal Commission made approval of the project, dubbed “Blue World,” contingent on SeaWorld agreeing not to breed, transfer or sell any of its captive orcas at the park. Manby called the ruling — which SeaWorld plans to ¿JKWLQFRXUW²DEDGSUHF- edent for not only SeaWorld but all zoos and aquariums. AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — A Jordanian police captain RSHQHG¿UH0RQGD\RQLQVWUXFWRUVDWDQLQWHUQDWLRQDO police training center in Jordan’s capital, killing at least ¿YHSHRSOHLQFOXGLQJWZR$PHULFDQVEHIRUHEHLQJVKRW dead by security forces. It was not clear if there was a political motive to the shooting spree, which also wounded six people, including two Americans. But concern has swirled in staunchly pro-Western Jordan over possible revenge attacks by Islamic militants since the country assumed a high-level role in the U.S.-led military campaign against the Islamic State extremist group, which controls large areas of neighboring Syria and Iraq. The unprecedented assault inside a Jordanian security compound also raised questions about the kingdom’s image as an island of relative stability in a turbulent region. The shooting took place at the Jordan International Police Training Center in Amman, where Jordanian and foreign instructors, including Americans, have trained thousands RISROLFHRI¿FHUVIURPWKH3DOHVWLQLDQWHUULWRULHVDQGRWKHU parts of the Arab world in recent years. s a m t s i r h C t n e m a n r O g n i t a r o c e D C o ntes t SeaWorld will end orca shows SAN DIEGO (AP) — SeaWorld will end orca shows at its San Diego park after visitors at the tourist attraction made it clear they prefer seeing killer whales act naturally rather than doing tricks, the company’s top executive said Monday. CEO Joel Manby told investors the park — where the iconic “Shamu” show featuring killer whales doing ÀLSVDQGRWKHUVWXQWVGHEXWHG decades ago — will offer a different kind of orca experi- ence focusing on the animal’s natural setting and behaviors, starting in 2017. Animal rights activists called the move a marketing gimmick and want the company to phase out holding any whales in captivity. “An end to SeaWorld’s tawdry circus-style shows is inevitable and necessary, but it’s captivity that denies these far-ranging orcas everything that is natural and important to them,” said Jared Goodman of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. “This move is like no longer whipping lions in a circus act but keeping them locked inside cages for life.” The Orlando, Flori- da-based company has seen revenue drop since the 2013 release of the documentary ³%ODFN¿VK´ WKDW H[DPLQHG how orcas respond to captivity. It chronicles the case of Tilikum, a killer whale that caused the death of trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010 by pulling her into a In a 53-page dissent, Judge Carolyn Dineen King said the administration was within the law, casting the decision to defer action on some deportations as “quintes- sential exercises of prosecutorial discretion,” and noting that the Department of Homeland Security has limited resources. “Although there are approx- imately 11.3 million removable aliens in this country today, for the last several years Congress has provided the Department of Home- land Security with only enough resources to remove approximately 400,000 of those aliens per year,” King wrote. Help us decorate the East Oregonian’s Christmas tree and win a prize! 3 Categories: Ages 2-6, 7-10 & 11-14 Deadline December 11, 2015 Winner announced December 19, 2015 Bring us an ornament decorated by your child by December 11 th along with the form below with your signature. 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