NATION/WORLD
Thursday, February 23, 2017
East Oregonian
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Immigrants change up their routines, brace for arrest
Associated Press
In Orange County, California,
dozens of immigrant parents have
signed legal documents authorizing
friends and relatives to pick up their
children from school and access
their bank accounts to pay their
bills in the event they are arrested
by immigration agents.
In Philadelphia, immigrants are
carrying around wallet-size “Know
Your Rights” guides in Spanish and
English that explain what to do if
they’re rounded up.
And in New York, 23-year-old
Zuleima Dominguez and other
members of her Mexican family are
careful about answering the door
and start making worried phone
calls when someone doesn’t come
home on time.
Around the country, President
Donald Trump’s efforts to crack
down on the estimated 11 million
immigrants living illegally in the
U.S. have spread fear and anxiety
and led many people to brace for
arrest and to change up their daily
routines in hopes of not getting
caught.
In El Paso, Texas, Carmen
Ramos and her friends have devel-
oped a network to keep each other
updated via text messages on where
immigration checkpoints have been
set up.
She said she is also making
certain everything she does is in
order at all times. She checks her
taillights before leaving the house
to make sure they are working. She
won’t speed and keeps a close eye
Revised order delayed
until next week
Christopher Millette/Erie Times-News via AP
Chris Magno holds a pro-immigration sign Wednesday during a
“Build Bridges Not Walls’’ immigration vigil at Perry Square in Erie,
Pa. near the U.S. District Courthouse.
on her surroundings.
“We are surprised that even a
ticket can get us back to Mexico,”
said the 41-year-old Ramos, who
with her husband and three children
left Ciudad Juarez because of drug
violence and death threats in 2008
and entered the U.S. on tourist
visas that have since expired. “We
wouldn’t have anywhere to return.”
The unease among immigrants
has been building for months but
intensified in recent weeks with
ever-clearer signs that the Trump
administration would jettison the
Obama-era policy of focusing
mostly on deporting those who had
committed serious crimes.
On Tuesday, the administration
announced that any immigrant
who is in the country illegally and
is charged with or convicted of
any offense, or even suspected of
a crime, will now be an enforce-
ment priority. That could include
people arrested for shoplifting or
other minor offenses, or those who
simply crossed the border illegally.
Some husbands and wives fear
spouses who lack legal papers
could be taken away. And many
worry that parents will be separated
from their U.S.-born children.
Dozens of immigrants have been
turning up at an advocacy group’s
offices in Philadelphia, asking
questions like, “Who will take care
of my children if I am deported?”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
White House is pushing back
the release of President Donald
Trump’s revamped refugee and
immigration executive order
until next week.
Trump had said his admin-
istration would unveil the new
order this week, but a White
House official says that has been
delayed.
Trump’s original order tempo-
rarily banning all entry into the
U.S. from seven Muslim-ma-
jority nations and pausing the
entire U.S. refugee program was
blocked in the courts. The direc-
tive sparked confusion at airports
and protests across the country.
The White House said it
would rewrite the order to try
to address some of the legal
issues that arose in the legal
proceedings.
They are also coached on how to
develop a “deportation plan” that
includes the name and number of
an attorney and other emergency
contacts in case of arrest.
In Los Angeles, immigrants have
been attending know-your-rights
workshops but also calling in to
report they’re afraid to pick up their
children from school, said Jorge-
Mario Cabrera, a spokesman for the
Coalition of Humane Immigrant
Rights of Los Angeles.
Immigrants in the Chicago area
have said they are scared to drive,
and some are even wary of taking
public transit. When Chicago police
and federal authorities conducted
regular safety checks on a train line
earlier this month, many assumed it
was an immigration checkpoint.
Word spread so quickly on
Twitter and among activist groups
that Chicago police issued a state-
ment assuring immigrants, “You are
welcome here.”
A 34-year-old Mexican immi-
grant and mother of two in Miami
said she has been texting friends and
exchanging messages on Facebook
about what roads to avoid to steer
clear of immigration patrols.
She drives to work and also takes
her children to school, even though
she has no license, something she
cannot get because she is in the
country illegally. She agreed to be
identified only by her first name,
Marina, for fear of deportation.
In the Bronx, Dominguez, a
college student who is in the U.S.
with permission under the Obama
administration policy for people
who entered illegally as children, is
looking into what she needs to do
to raise her American-born brother
and sister, ages 6 and 11, if their
parents are deported. The parents
are in the U.S. illegally.
Now, when Dominguez goes
out, she tells the others where she
is going, with whom, and when she
will be home, and expects the same
from her parents and siblings. If
someone is late getting home, she
said, “we start calling.”
Most oil pipeline opponents leave North Dakota protest camp
CANNON BALL, N.D.
(AP) — Most of the Dakota
Access pipeline opponents
abandoned their protest
camp Wednesday ahead of
a government deadline to
get off the federal land, and
authorities moved to arrest
some who defied the order in
a final show of dissent.
The camp has been home
to demonstrators for nearly
a year as they tried to thwart
construction of the pipeline.
Many of the protesters left
peacefully, but police made
some arrests two hours after
the deadline.
Earlier in the day, some of
the last remnants of the camp
went up in flames when
occupants set fire to make-
shift wooden housing as
part of a leaving ceremony.
Authorities later said about
20 fires were set and two
people — a 7-year-old boy
and a 17-year-old girl — were
taken to a Bismarck hospital
to be treated for burns. Their
conditions weren’t given.
After the deadline passed,
as many as 75 people outside
the camp started taunting
officers, who brought five
large vans to the scene.
Police took about 10 people
into custody for failing to
heed commands to leave,
authorities said.
With darkness falling,
Lt. Tom Iverson said police
would not enter the camp
Wednesday and he offered no
timetable for doing so.
Levi Bachmeier, an
adviser to Gov. Doug
Burgum, said about 50
people remained in the camp
at dusk.
Hours before, about 150
people marched arm-in-arm
out of the soggy camp,
singing and playing drums
as they walked down a
highway. It was not clear
where they were headed. One
man carried an American flag
hung upside-down.
Authorities sent buses to
take protesters to Bismarck,
where they were offered fresh
clothing, bus fares home and
food and hotel vouchers.
The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers set the deadline,
citing the threat of spring
flooding.
At the height of the
protests, the site known as
AP Photo/James MacPherson
A couple embraces as opponents of the Dakota Access
pipeline leave their main protest camp Wednesday,
near Cannon Ball, N.D., as authorities were preparing
to shut down the camp in advance of spring flooding
season. The Army Corps of Engineers ordered the camp
closed at 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Oceti Sakowin hosted thou-
sands of people, though its
population dwindled to just
a couple of hundred as the
pipeline battle moved into
the courts.
The camp is on federal
land in North Dakota
between the Standing Rock
Sioux Reservation and the
pipeline route that is being
finished by Dallas-based
Energy Transfer Partners.
When complete, the project
will carry oil through the
Dakotas and Iowa to a ship-
ping point in Illinois.
Some of the protesters
were focused on moving off
federal land and away from
the flood plain into other
camps, said Phyllis Young,
one of the camp leaders.
“The
camps
will
continue,”
she
said.
“Freedom is in our DNA,
and we have no choice but to
continue the struggle.”
New camps are popping
up on private land, including
one the Cheyenne River
Sioux set up about a mile
from the main camp.
“A lot of our people want
to be here and pray for our
future,” tribal Chairman
Harold Frazier said.
Others, including Dom
Cross, an Oglala Sioux from
Pine Ridge, South Dakota,
said he planned to return
home after living at the camp
since September.
“There’s a lot of sadness
right now. We have to leave
our second home,” he said.
Charles Whalen, 50, an
alcohol and drug counselor
from Mille Lacs, Minnesota,
said he and a group of about
20 people were not going to
leave on their own and were
willing to get arrested to
prove their point.
“Passive
resistance,”
Whalen said. “We are not
going to do anything nega-
tive. It’s about prayer.”
Some campers said they
were leaving with mixed
feelings, both energized by
the long protest and saddened
to leave new friends. Some
people set off fireworks.
Matthew Bishop, of
Ketchikan, Alaska, has
been in North Dakota since
October. He planned to move
to another camp.
“People
have
been
surviving here for hundreds
and hundreds of years ... so
if I back down, what would I
look like?” Bishop said as he
tied his possessions to the top
of his car.
Craig Stevens, spokesman
for the MAIN Coalition of
agriculture, business and
labor interests, said the group
understands “the passions
that individuals on all sides of
the pipeline discussion feel”
and hopes that protesters’
voices “will continue to be
heard through other peaceful
channels and in court.”
A massive effort to
clean up the camp has been
underway for weeks, first by
protesters and now with help
from the Army.
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