WEATHER
East Oregonian
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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
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Hi
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58
61
59
58
52
63
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63
57
62
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52
70
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59
63
60
59
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63
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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
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Hi
53
82
74
54
78
44
58
61
61
75
74
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36
72
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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.
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Wed.
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
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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
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79
53
57
36
81
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Wed.
Hi
74
62
59
67
42
64
59
62
76
50
38
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67
64
40
83
28
27
82
73
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80
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Today
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
Hi
74
76
84
38
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79
83
47
62
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54
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42
45
77
30
68
76
63
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66
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66
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63
70
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71
75
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Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Oregon seeks stability for ‘dreamers’ Court OKs boosting
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
Portland resident Eddie
Ramirez has wanted to
be a dentist since he was
8 years old. 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.