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SEMI TRUCK CRASHES INTO CANAL 20 QUESTIONS WITH RYAN BARNARD REGION/3A ATHLETE OF THE WEEK/2B Pope: Native people have rights over their lands FAITH/8A FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2017 141st Year, No. 89 WINNER OF THE 2016 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD One dollar Your Weekend • • • ArtWORKz 2017 artist reception at Tamastslikt Tillamook Cheese Days at the SAGE Center “Til Death Do Us Part... and We Part Tonight” For times and places see Coming Events, 5A Weekend Weather Friday 45 33 Saturday 41 32 Sunday 44 34 Watch a game Boy’s basketball vs. Hood River vs. Hermiston Friday, 7 p.m., at Hermiston Girl’s basketball Staff photo by E.J. Harris Kindergarten teacher Jessica Garcia reads a book to students of a combined class on Thursday at McNary Heights Elementary School in Umatilla. Garcia’s class combined with Sarah Blake’s kindergarten class after more than half of their students did not show up to school. A day without immigrants Across Hermiston and U.S. people participate in protest of immigration policies vs. The Dalles vs. Pendleton Friday, 7 p.m., at Pendleton Catch a movie East Oregonian and Associated Press Warner Bros. Pictures via AP Expounding the importance of nonviolent confl ict resolution two teachers plan to fi ght each other after school in “Fist Fight.” Staff photo by E.J. Harris Abby Munoz, with the InterMountain Education Service District, center, introduces Irrigon city councilor Marlina Avila Serratos during a migrant parents meeting Wednesday in Hermiston. Migrant families ask questions about immigration, rights By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN East Oregonian Universal Pictures via AP Matt Damon teams up with Song dynasty warriors to battle monsters attacking the Great Wall of China in “The Great Wall.” For showtimes, Page 5A As President Donald Trump has begun to follow through on his campaign promise to crack down on illegal immigration, many immigrants living in the U.S. both legally and illegally are concerned about the ramifi cations for them- selves and their families. An executive order issued by Trump on Jan. 25 directed the secretary of homeland security to hire 10,000 more immigration offi cers and called on local and state police to detain or apprehend people in the United States ille- gally. Locally, some organizations are trying to educate migrant families about their rights and advise them See FAMILIES/10A Immigrants around the U.S. stayed home from work and school Thursday to demonstrate how important they are to America’s economy, and many businesses closed in solidarity in a nationwide protest called A Day Without Immigrants. The boycott was aimed squarely at President Donald Trump’s efforts to step up deportations, build a wall at the Mexican border and close the nation’s doors to many travelers. In Umatilla and Morrow County, where the U.S. census estimates 9,900 foreign-born residents out of a population of 87,000, the demonstration was perhaps felt most powerfully at schools. Sixty-fi ve percent of Umatilla School District students are Latino, and superintendent Heidi Sipe said 39 percent of the district’s students were absent Thursday. One classroom at McNary Heights Elementary only had six students. “Honestly, we’ve also had a number of students expressing concern about (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement) coming to school,” Sipe said. “They always ask, ‘Are they going to take us?’” Sipe said they tell students that school is a place to focus on learning and that there are laws that help it stay that way. The district is not even legally allowed to ask students about their immigration status. Sipe said she also had more staff missing than usual but does not know their reasons for being absent. At the Hermiston School District — which is 50 percent Hispanic —1,438 students were absent on Thursday — a quarter of the district’s population. Of those students, 1,183 were Hispanic, according to district communications offi cer Maria Duron. In Boardman schools, where See IMMIGRATION/10A Trump seeks pause in legal fi ght with revised travel ban By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — The Trump administration said in court documents on Thursday it wants a pause in the legal fi ght over its ban on travelers from seven predom- inantly Muslim nations, so it can issue a replacement ban as it strives to protect the nation from terrorism. Details of the new proposal were not provided in the fi ling or at a wide-ranging news conference by Trump. But lawyers for the admin- istration said in the fi ling that a ban that focuses solely on foreigners who have never entered the U.S. — instead of green card holders already in the U.S. or who have traveled abroad and want to return — would pose no legal diffi culties. “I will not back down from defending our country. I got elected on defense of our country.” — Donald Trump, President of the United States “In so doing, the president will clear the way for immediately protecting the country rather than pursuing further, potentially time-consuming litigation,” the fi ling said. Trump said at the news confer- ence that a new order would come next week. “I will not back down from See TRUMP/10A AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday.
