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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast WEDNESDAY TODAY THURSDAY Clouds and sun Mostly cloudy with a shower 55° 39° 59° 46° FRIDAY Mostly cloudy with a few showers A little rain; windy in the p.m. PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 64° 50° 63° 44° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 63° 46° 58° 41° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 48° 58° 84° (1944) 33° 38° 20° (1935) PRECIPITATION 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date Trace Trace 0.09" 3.71" 6.27" 4.05" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 51° 62° 80° (1944) Trace Trace 0.04" 2.38" 4.93" 3.15" SUN AND MOON Apr 15 Bend 57/37 6:32 a.m. 7:26 p.m. 11:05 p.m. 8:34 a.m. First Full Apr 22 Apr 29 Caldwell 58/36 Burns 59/32 Astoria Baker City Bend Brookings Burns Enterprise Eugene Heppner Hermiston John Day Klamath Falls La Grande Meacham Medford Newport North Bend Ontario Pasco Pendleton Portland Redmond Salem Spokane Ukiah Vancouver Walla Walla Yakima Lo 40 33 37 45 32 32 40 38 41 37 36 36 34 44 42 43 38 36 39 43 34 42 32 32 42 41 35 W c pc c c pc pc c pc pc pc c pc pc c c c pc pc pc c c c pc pc c pc c Hi 55 58 61 59 58 52 63 58 63 57 62 55 52 70 56 59 63 60 59 58 63 63 44 53 57 56 61 Lo 47 40 42 47 38 39 45 43 46 44 41 41 41 48 46 47 46 43 46 48 42 47 36 39 47 46 42 W r c c c c c r c c c c c c c r c c pc c r c r pc c r c c WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 60/36 Hi 56 82 68 57 79 41 60 65 69 74 70 Lo 34 72 48 46 56 29 48 54 50 68 56 W c s pc t pc c t pc pc pc pc Wed. Hi 53 82 74 54 78 44 58 61 61 75 74 Lo 36 72 53 39 56 34 43 53 45 67 54 W c pc s t t c t t r pc pc REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy today. Mostly cloudy tonight; a little rain; however, dry in the south. Eastern and Central Oregon: Periods of clouds and sun today. Considerable cloudi- ness tonight. A shower tomorrow. Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today. Occasional rain late tonight. A touch of rain tomorrow. Eastern Washington: Clouds and sun today. Plenty of clouds tonight; a snow shower toward the Cascades. Cascades: Mostly cloudy today. Today Wednesday SW 6-12 W 4-8 WSW 7-14 WSW 6-12 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. 1 2 3 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major holidays East Oregonian (USPS 164-980) is published daily except Sunday, Monday and postal holidays, by the EO Media Group, 211 S.E. 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WINDS Medford 66/44 PRECIPITATION Apr 8 John Day 57/37 Ontario 60/38 35° 38° 18° (1935) 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Last New Albany 55/42 Eugene 55/40 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 64° 49° Spokane Wenatchee 47/32 55/36 Tacoma Moses 54/37 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 54/35 48/36 51/42 53/37 58/35 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 53/39 55/41 Lewiston 59/39 Astoria 55/39 52/40 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 54/43 Pendleton 51/32 The Dalles 58/41 55/39 60/40 La Grande Salem 54/36 55/42 Corvallis 55/40 HIGH 67° 51° Seattle 53/41 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 61° 46° Today SATURDAY A shower in the afternoon 58° 46° Tuesday, April 3, 2018 Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. -10s -0s 0s showers t-storms 10s rain flurries 30s 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: Heavy snow will fall on the Upper Midwest with severe thunderstorms over the Mississippi Valley and heavy rain from the central Plains to the coastal Northeast today. High winds will blast the High Plains. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 97° in Zapata, Texas Low -4° in Merrill, Wis. NATIONAL CITIES Today Albuquerque Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Fargo Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Hi 69 79 53 57 36 81 57 44 81 73 41 64 78 51 47 83 23 18 81 81 65 85 43 77 78 71 Lo 41 58 49 52 23 47 40 39 65 50 27 41 42 27 35 51 8 5 72 52 33 64 18 59 36 55 W pc pc r r pc pc pc r pc pc r r t pc r s pc s pc c t pc pc s t pc Wed. 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He earned a scholarship to Oregon Health Science University School of Dentistry and will spend thousands of dollars to apply for a dentist license when he graduates later this year. Yet, the 25-year-old who grew up in Oregon may not be permitted to fulfill his dream because he is a “dreamer,” one of the tens of thousands of unauthorized immigrants brought to Oregon as young children. The avenue for Ramirez and other dreamers to avoid deportation and obtain work permits — the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — is in peril under the Donald Trump adminis- tration and is under debate in federal courts. “I am scared and exhausted from being in limbo,” Ramirez said. “It seems like we are being used as some sort of negotiating chip, and I feel that they sometimes forget there are people behind those stories.” With no immediate reso- lution to DACA, states such as Oregon are intervening to provide a pathway for dreamers to move forward with their lives amid federal uncertainty. That can range from giving dreamers access to in-state college tuition to allowing them to obtain professional licensure. Trump in a series of tweets April 1- 2, said there will be no deal on DACA despite months of political wrangling. Under threat of litigation by conservative states, Trump attempted to end DACA last year, arguing that former President Barack Obama lacked the authority to create the program through execu- tive order. The president and Congress failed to meet a March 5 deadline to come up with a permanent legislative solution for dreamers. The program was scheduled to end that day, but judges have issued injunctions to allow DACA renewals while chal- lenges to its termination are pending in court. Jonathan House/Pamplin Media Group Eddie Ramirez, 25, of Portland, a dental student at Or- egon Health Science University. Oregon lawmakers earlier this year passed two bills to protect the ability of unauthorized immigrants who grew up in the state to continue to qualify for resi- dent undergraduate tuition at state colleges and universities and to renew their driver’s licenses. Sen. Michael Dembrow, D-Portland, said he plans to introduce legislation next year that would expand resident tuition to graduate study for that population and ensure they can obtain professional licensure. Ten states — California, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming — have enacted laws allowing profes- sional licenses for certain immigrant populations, according to a study last year by the National Conference of State Legislatures. The laws seek to fill state labor shortages, tap underutilized immigrant talent and reap economic benefits of those workers’ improved income, spending and tax revenues. Some laws apply broadly such as California’s. In that state, unauthorized immi- grants can obtain any profes- sional license if they meet all other requirements. New York opens professional licenses up to DACA recipients. In other states, the laws are targeted to fill labor shortages in certain professions, according to the NCSL study. Barriers to licensure is a national problem for certain populations, including immi- grants and felons. State occupational license requirements lack uniform standards. In Oregon, there are wide differences between some of the state’s approx- imately 150 occupational licenses, Dembrow said. “There is not really a master template for occupational licenses, and so these licenses and their requirements get set up in a haphazard way,” Dembrow said. Gov. Kate Brown’s office intended to survey the state’s licensing boards to find out what barriers exist for dreamers, he said. The Corrections The Discover Eastern Oregon magazine published in Saturday’s East Oregonian contains incorrect dates for the Wildhorse Resort & Casino Pow Wow. The annual event will be held July 6-8 at the Wildhorse outdoor arena. The EO regrets the error. The Oregon Hunters Association banquet will be held Saturday at the Pendleton Convention Center. The informa- tion in the article in Saturday’s Lifestyles section (page 6C) was correct, but the header over the article was incorrect. The EO regrets any confusion. The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. Governor’s Office did not respond to several requests over the past month for details about the survey. Some licensing boards, such as the Oregon Board of Dentistry and those through the state Health Licensing Office, have rules that allow DACA recipients to receive licenses. At the Health Licensing Office, license applicants can submit a driver’s license or Social Security card to apply. Those are documents a DACA recip- ient would likely possess but that other unauthorized immigrants would have no way to access under state law. Many of those unau- thorized immigrants could be DACA eligible but never applied and now no longer can. Recent court decisions have kept DACA in place for renewals, but Homeland Security is not accepting new applications, said Andrea Williams, execu- tive director of Causa, an Oregon immigrant rights advocacy center. There are more than 11,000 DACA recipients in Oregon and an unknown number of additional dreamers who are not enrolled in the program, she said. water spill to aid fish at Northwest dams By STEVEN DUBOIS Associated Press PORTLAND — A U.S. appeals court on Monday affirmed an order to spill more water over Columbia and Snake river dams to help protect salmon and steelhead and aid their migration to the sea. The decision came after U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon of Oregon ruled last spring that the U.S. Army Corps of Engi- neers must spill more water through spillways rather than turbines that pose a danger to the fish. He sided with conserva- tionists who say allowing extra water to flow between April and mid-June will help young salmon. The Army Corps, National Marine Fisheries Service and another federal agency appealed Simon’s ruling. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Monday that Simon rightly concluded that the salmon and steelhead are imperiled and will remain so without further conservation efforts. The judges also pointed to decades of studies that show higher spill volumes lead to increased survival rates. “At best, federal defen- dants establish uncertainty about the benefits of increased spill, but the existence of scientific uncertainty does not render the district court’s findings clearly erroneous,” Chief Judge Sidney Thomas wrote in the opinion. The new spill operations are set to begin Tuesday at some dams on the Snake River and next week on some dams in the Columbia, one of the largest rivers in North America. The Snake is its largest tributary. Conservation groups said it’s the fourth time since 2005 that increased spill has been mandated by the district court. “It’s tragic that the federal agencies are still ignoring their own science in fighting spill at every step of the way,” said Glen Spain, Northwest regional director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations. Corps spokesman Matt Rabe declined comment on the litigation. He said the corps will follow the ruling and increase spill Tuesday.