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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
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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.
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ment that an adverse ruling would
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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
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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,
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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but all zoos and aquariums.
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police training center in Jordan’s capital, killing at least
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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