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Saturday, April 22, 2017
Battle for Berkeley:
Will Ann Coulter
spark another clash?
Trump tells young immigrants
in U.S. illegally to ‘rest easy’
By JULIE PACE
AP White House
Correspondent
WASHINGTON
—
Young immigrants brought to
the U.S. as children and now
here illegally can “rest easy,”
President Donald Trump said
Friday, telling the “dreamers”
they will not be targets for
deportation under1 his immi-
gration policies.
Trump, in a wide-ranging
interview with The Associated
Press, said his administration
is “not after the dreamers, we
are after the criminals.”
The president, who took a
hard line on immigration as
a candidate, vowed anew to
fulfill his promise to construct
a wall along the U.S.-Mexico
border. But he stopped short
of demanding that funding
for the project be included
in a spending bill Congress
must pass by the end of next
week in order to keep the
government running.
“I want the border wall.
My base definitely wants the
border wall,” Trump said in
the Oval Office interview.
Asked whether he would
sign legislation that does
not include money for the
project, he said, “I just don’t
know yet.” Throughout the
campaign, he had firmly and
repeatedly guaranteed that
Mexico, not U.S. taxpayers,
would pay for the wall.
Eager to start making prog-
ress on other campaign prom-
ises, Trump said he would
unveil a tax overhaul package
next week — “Wednesday
or shortly thereafter” — that
would include a “massive”
tax cut for both individuals
and corporations. He would
not provide details of rate
proposals or how he planned
to pay for the package but
asserted the cuts for Ameri-
cans will be “bigger, I believe,
than any tax cut ever.”
Congressional Republi-
cans seemed caught off guard
by Trump’s announcement
and did not appear to have
been briefed on the details
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
President Donald Trump walks along the West Wing Col-
onnade at the White House in Washington on Friday.
Trump says he will release tax
reform package next week
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump
says businesses and individuals will receive a “massive
tax cut” under a tax reform package he plans to unveil
next week.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Trump
says the plan will result in tax cuts for both individuals
and businesses. He would not provide details of the plan,
saying only that the tax cuts will be “bigger I believe than
any tax cut ever.”
The president says the package will be released on
“Wednesday or shortly thereafter” — just before his 100
day mark in office.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin initially set a goal
of getting tax reform passed by August, but that deadline
has slipped. Mnuchin now says the administration still
hoped to get a bill passed well before the end of the year.
of the White House’s forth-
coming plan.
Trump spoke with the AP
ahead of his 100th day in
office.
He panned that marker as
“artificial.” Still, the White
House is eager to tout prog-
ress on the litany of agenda
items he promised to fulfill
in his first 100 days, despite
setbacks including court bans
on his proposed immigration
limits and a high-profile
failure in repealing and
As a candidate, Trump
strongly criticized President
Barack Obama for “illegal
executive
amnesties,”
including actions to spare
from deportation young
people who were brought to
the country as children and
now are here illegally. But
after the election, Trump
started
speaking
more
favorably about these immi-
grants, popularly dubbed
“dreamers.”
On Friday, he said that
when it comes to them, “This
is a case of heart.”
This week, attorneys
for Juan Manuel Montes
said the 23-year-old was
recently deported to Mexico
despite having qualified for
deferred deportation. Trump
said Montes’ case is “a little
different than the dreamer
case,” though he did not
specify why.
The Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals program
was launched in 2012 as
a stopgap to protect some
young immigrants from
deportation while the admin-
istration continued to push
for a broader immigration
overhaul in Congress.
Obama’s administrative
program offered a reprieve
from deportation to those
immigrants in the country
illegally who could prove
they arrived before they were
16, had been in the United
States for several years and
had not committed a crime
since being here.
replacing the current health
care law.
The president said Friday
he spent his first 100 days
laying the “foundation” for
progress later in his adminis-
tration, including by building
relationships with foreign
leaders. He cited German
Chancellor Angela Merkel as
a leader he was surprised to
have developed strong chem-
istry with, given that he has
been critical of her handling
of immigration policies.
By JOCELYN GECKER
Associated Press
BERKELEY, Calif. —
The word “CANCELED”
is printed across a poster of
Ann Coulter’s face at the
University of California,
Berkeley. But that appears
to be wishful thinking.
The campus is bracing
for trouble next week, when
the conservative provoca-
teur has vowed to speak in
defiance of the university’s
wishes. Officials, police
and even the campus
Republicans who invited
Coulter say there is reason
to fear violence in what is
being called the Battle for
Berkeley.
Berkeley’s reputation
as one of the country’s
most liberal universities,
in one of America’s most
liberal cities, has made it a
flashpoint for the nation’s
political divisions in the era
of Donald Trump.
The campus and the city
itself have become a target
for militant right-wing
organizations that have
clashed in recent months
with militant left-wing or
anarchist groups from the
San Francisco Bay Area.
Both favor hoods to
conceal their identities
and a variety of weapons,
including Molotov cocktails,
brass knuckles and soda
cans filled with concrete.
UC Berkeley has been
synonymous with protest
from the earliest days of
the 1960s Free Speech
Movement, when students
fought for the right to speak
out and set off a wave of
campus activism around the
country.
But officials say what
they’re seeing now does
not involve students and
is a new type of extremely
violent protest.
“There is no doubt that
over the last few months
the city and campus have
become a stage upon
which national political
conflicts are playing
out,” said university
spokesman Dan Mogulof.
“We are in new and
challenging times. I don’t
think we’ve seen anybody
who has cracked the code
here.”
Last weekend, bloody
street brawls broke out
in downtown Berkeley
at a pro-Trump protest
that featured speeches
by members of the white
nationalist right. They
clashed with a group of
Trump critics who called
themselves anti-fascists.
Police arrested 20 people
and said dozens were
injured. They confiscated
bats, knives, bear spray,
pepper spray and other
weapons, according to
police.
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