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Tuesday, September 5, 2017
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Young immigrants prepare for
worst if Trump ends protections
By ASTRID GALVAN
Associated Press
PHOENIX — Young
immigrants shielded from
deportation by a program that
President Donald Trump was
expected to end were battling
to keep those protections
Monday, while preparing for
the worst.
Those who were brought
to the country illegally as
children rallied to save
the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals program,
or DACA, amid reports
that Trump will announce
Tuesday he is unraveling
it. Young immigrants held
protests nationwide and had
plans to do it again Tuesday.
Some worry they will
have to work under the table
in lower-wage jobs, while
others hope to persevere or
even start their own busi-
nesses.
Korina Iribe said she
and her partner have been
discussing what they need to
do to protect their 2-year-old
son in the event that they
are no longer shielded from
deportation or cannot work.
Both were brought to the
U.S. illegally as children.
“Our son is U.S.-born,
and ultimately for us, we
want the best for him. But we
also don’t wanna go back to
living in the shadows,” said
Iribe, from the Phoenix area.
They are preparing for
the unknown, with Trump
expected to end Obama-era
protections for young immi-
grants who have permits to
work in the U.S., but with a
six-month delay. That would
give Congress time to decide
whether it wants to address
the status of the law.
Details of the changes
were not clear, including
what would happen if
lawmakers failed to pass a
measure by the deadline.
Supporters of the program
took to the streets Monday
in Las Vegas, Los Angeles,
South Carolina and else-
where, holding up signs that
read, “No person has the right
to rain on your dreams” and
“You may say I’m a dreamer
but I’m not the only one.”
Iribe and her partner are
planning on giving one of
her son’s grandparents power
of attorney in case they are
deported without notice. She
is considering getting her
son dual citizenship so he
could join them in Mexico if
needed.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 14 th
AP Photo/Richard Vogel
Supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, chant slogans
and carry signs while joining a Labor Day rally in downtown Los Angeles, Monday.
Trump’s plan would pass hot potato to Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — A plan
President Donald Trump is expected to
announce Tuesday for young immigrants
brought to the country illegally as children
was embraced by some top Republicans on
Monday and denounced by others as the
beginning of a “civil war” within the party.
The response was an immediate illustra-
tion of the potential battles ahead if Trump
follows through with a plan that would hand
a political hot potato to Republicans on the
Hill who have a long history of dropping it.
Two people familiar with his decision
making said Sunday that Trump was
preparing to announce an end to Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA
program, but with a six-month delay
intended to give Congress time to pass
legislation that would address the status of
the hundreds of thousands of immigrants
covered by the program.
The move comes after a long and notably
public deliberation. Despite campaigning
as an immigration hard-liner, Trump has
said he is sympathetic to the plight of the
immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally
as children and in some cases have no
memories of the countries they were born
in.
But such an approach — essentially
kicking the can down the road and letting
Congress deal with it — is fraught with
uncertainty and political perils that amount,
Iribe said her family also
will need to figure out how to
pay for a mortgage on a home
they bought two months ago.
“For us, it’s more like how
will we protect ourselves
from deportation, and two,
how will we make it work for
our family, financially,” Iribe
said.
according to one vocal opponent, to
“Republican suicide.”
Still other Republicans say they are
ready to take on a topic that has proven a
non-starter and career-breaker for decades.
“If President Trump makes this decision
we will work to find a legislative solution
to their dilemma,” said Republican Sen.
Lindsay Graham.
Officials caution Trump’s plan, set to be
unveiled Tuesday, is not yet finalized, and
the president, who has been grappling with
the issue for months, has been known to
change his mind at the last minute ahead of
an announcement. It also remains unclear
exactly how a six-month delay would
work in practice, including whether the
government would continue to process
applications under the program, which has
given nearly 800,000 young immigrants a
reprieve from deportation and the ability to
work legally in the country in the form of
two-year, renewable permits.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and a handful
of other Republicans urged Trump last
week to hold off on scrapping DACA to
give lawmakers time to come up with a
legislative fix.
But Congress has repeatedly tried — and
failed — to come together on immigration
overhaul legislation, and it remains uncer-
tain whether the House would succeed in
passing anything on the divisive topic.
Abril Gallardo, 27, has
used the work permit she
got through DACA to get
a job as a communications
director for a Phoenix advo-
cacy group. That’s allowed
her to pay for college so
far, although cutting off
her ability to work legally
threatens that.
BRIEFLY
U.S. envoy tells UN:
North Korean leader is
‘begging for war’
Houston residents mark
Labor Day sorting
through storm ruins
NEW YORK (AP) — North
Korea’s leader is “begging for war,”
the U.S. ambassador said Monday at
an emergency meeting of the U.N.
Security Council, as members called
for punishing the country with even
stronger sanctions for its powerful
nuclear test.
Ambassador Nikki Haley said the
U.S. would look at countries doing
business with the North — which
include China — and planned to
circulate a resolution this week with the
goal of getting it approved Sept. 11.
“Enough is enough. War is never
something the United States wants. We
don’t want it now. But our country’s
patience is not unlimited,” Haley said.
“The United States will look at
every country that does business with
North Korea as a country, that is giving
aid to their reckless and dangerous
nuclear intentions,” she said.
The move came as South Korea said
it was seeing preparations in the North
for an ICBM test and fired missiles
into the sea to simulate an attack on the
North’s main nuclear test site.
HOUSTON (AP) — Some Gulf
Coast residents ripped up soggy
carpeting, cut out sheet rock from walls
marked by the height floodwaters had
reached and sorted through destroyed
clothes and other belongings on
Monday, 10 days after Harvey swept
onto land and caused billions of dollars
in damage.
Houston’s mayor insisted that
America’s fourth-largest city is “open
for business,” but with areas under
water, people not yet in their homes and
city services not yet fully restored, the
disasters created by Harvey are by no
means resolved.
Mayor Sylvester Turner said much
of the city was hoping to get back on
track after Labor Day, a traditional
day to honor workers that took on new
meaning in Texas, where people were
cleaning out their former homes.
“Anyone who was planning on
a conference or a convention or a
sporting event or a concert coming to
this city, you can still come,” he told
CBS. “We can do multiple things at the
same time.”
If she can’t work anymore,
Gallardo plans on helping
with her mom’s catering
business and hopes to start
their own family restaurant
one day.
“The most important thing
is that we’re safe together,
and we’re there for each
other,” Gallardo said.
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Charlottesville poses new
rights test for Sessions
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jefferson
Beauregard Sessions, a son of the
segregated South who was named after
leaders of the Confederacy, faces a
tough new test of his commitment to
protecting civil rights as he oversees the
Justice Department’s investigation of
the deadly violence at a rally of white
nationalists in Virginia.
Sessions’ political career has been
dogged by questions about race,
including during his confirmation
hearings this year. In his six months as
attorney general, he has worked quickly
to change how the department enforces
civil rights law, particularly in the areas
of police reform and voting rights.
Yet Sessions was also quick to
forcefully condemn the car attack
at the neo-Nazi rally in support of a
Confederate statue in Charlottesville.
His response stood in contrast to that
of President Donald Trump, who drew
equivalence between the white nation-
alists and those protesting their beliefs.
Sessions denounced racism and bigotry
and called the driver’s actions an “evil”
act of domestic terrorism worthy of a
federal civil rights investigation.
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