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House sends Trump $4.6B border bill
By ANDREW TAYLOR
AND ALAN FRAM
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The
Democratic-controlled House
voted on Thursday to send
President Donald Trump a
bipartisan, Senate-drafted,
$4.6 billion measure to care
for migrant refugees detained
at the southern border, cap-
ping a Washington skirmish
in which die-hard liberals
came out on the losing end in
a battle with the White House,
the GOP-held Senate and
Democratic moderates.
The emergency legislation,
required to ease overcrowded,
often harsh conditions at U.S.
holding facilities for migrants
seeking asylum, mostly from
Central American nations like
Honduras and El Salvador,
passed by a bipartisan 305-
102 vote. Trump has indicated
he’ll sign it into law.
“A great job done by all!”
Trump tweeted from his over-
seas trip.
Ninety-five
Democrats
opposed the bill, reluctantly
brought to a vote by House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Ca-
lif., after her plan to further
strengthen rules for treat-
ment of migrant refugees ran
into intractable opposition
from Republican lawmak-
ers and Vice President Mike
Pence. Many moderate Dem-
ocrats split with Pelosi as
well, undercutting her efforts,
which faded shortly after Sen-
AP Photo/Alex Brandon
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during her
weekly media availability on Capitol Hill on Thursday in
Washington.
ate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell, R-Ky., said he
would swiftly reject them.
The legislation contains
more than $1 billion to shelter
and feed migrants detained by
the border patrol and almost
$3 billion to care for unac-
companied migrant children
who are turned over to the
Department of Health and
Human Services. It rejects
an administration request for
additional Immigration and
Customs Enforcement deten-
tion beds, however, and con-
tains provisions designed to
prevent federal immigration
agents from going after immi-
grants living in the country
illegally who seek to care for
unaccompanied children.
The funding is urgently
needed to prevent the human-
itarian emergency on the
U.S.-Mexico border from
worsening. The government
had warned that money would
run out in a matter of days.
The Senate bill passed
Wednesday by an 84-8 vote,
with Democrats there pleased
with the deal they cut with
Republicans controlling the
chamber.
The measure was initially
only reluctantly accepted by
the White House — which
complained about elimina-
tion of the request for deten-
tion beds for immigrants fac-
ing removal from the U.S.
— but GOP support grew
after the measure presented
an opportunity to outmaneu-
ver Pelosi. Just seven Repub-
licans opposed the bill.
“We could have done so
much better,” Pelosi said in
a floor speech. Earlier, Pelosi
pushed a plan to ping-pong
the Senate-passed bill right
back across the Capitol with
provisions requiring more
stringent care requirements
for detained migrant fami-
lies and other steps. But con-
fronted with splintering unity
in the Democratic rank and
file and intractable opposi-
tion from McConnell, Pelosi
changed course.
Pence and Pelosi had an
hourlong conversation on the
legislation Thursday as the
White House and Republi-
cans kept pounding the mes-
sage that the only way forward
on the long-sought legislation
was to pass the Senate bill.
Pence’s chief of staff
Marc Short described the
call as friendly and produc-
tive. Pelosi, a devout Catho-
lic, appealed to Pence’s sense
of faith.
Pelosi presented an effec-
tive case that House Demo-
crats wanted more, Short said,
but the vice president stressed
that with the bipartisan vote in
Senate and funding running
out, now was not the time to
be reopening the bill.
The leaders of the House
Progressive Caucus, which
includes almost half of House
Democrats,
immediately
issued a statement calling the
Senate bill — which had the
backing of Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. —
“entirely insufficient to pro-
tect vulnerable children in
our care.”
Politicians’ tweets
could get slapped
with warning labels
By BARBARA ORTUTAY
AP Technology Writer
SAN FRANCISCO —
Presidents and other world
leaders and political figures
who use Twitter to threaten or
abuse others could find their
tweets slapped with warning
labels.
The new policy, announced
by the company on Thursday,
comes amid complaints from
activists and others that Pres-
ident Donald Trump has got-
ten a free pass from Twit-
ter to post hateful messages
and attack his enemies in
ways they say could lead to
violence.
From now on, a tweet
that Twitter deems to involve
matters of public interest,
but which violates the ser-
vice’s rules, will be obscured
by a warning explaining the
violation.
Users will have to tap
through the warning to see
the underlying message, but
the tweet won’t be removed,
as Twitter might do with a
regular person’s posts.
Twitter said the policy
applies to all government offi-
cials, candidates and similar
public figures with more than
100,000 followers. In addition
to applying the label, Twit-
ter won’t use its algorithms
to “elevate” or otherwise pro-
mote such tweets.
“It’s a step in the right
direction,” said Keegan
Hankes, research analyst for
the Southern Poverty Law
Center’s Intelligence Proj-
ect, who focuses on far-right
extremist propaganda online.
But, he added, Twitter is
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essentially arguing “that hate
speech can be in the public
interest. I am arguing that hate
speech is never in the public
interest.”
Twitter refused to com-
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Trump’s past tweets violated
its rules and would not say
what role, if any, his Twit-
ter activity played in the cre-
ation of the new warning-la-
bel policy.
The new stance could
fuel additional Trumpian ire
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a person or group, engag-
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of someone,” or inciting oth-
ers to do so, such as wishing a
person is harmed. It also bans
hate speech against a group
based on race, ethnicity, gen-
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled
Thursday that partisan gerrymandering of congressio-
nal and legislative districts is none of its business, a deci-
sion that leaves state officials free from federal court chal-
lenges to their plans to shape districts to blatantly help
their parties.
The court’s conservative majority, including the two
justices appointed by President Donald Trump, prevailed
in a 5-4 ruling that dealt a huge blow to efforts to combat
the redrawing of district lines to benefit a particular party.
The decision, on the last day before the justices’ long
summer break, has no effect on racial gerrymandering
challenges. Courts have barred redistricting aimed at
reducing the political representation of racial minorities
for a half-century.
But the outcome brings an immediate halt to lawsuits
that sought to rein in the most partisan districting plans
that can result when one party controls a state’s legislature
and governor’s office.
Trump, Putin set for first meeting
since Mueller report
OSAKA, Japan (AP) — President Donald Trump is
under pressure to take a firm stand against election interfer-
ence Friday when he holds his first meeting with Russia’s
Vladimir Putin since the special counsel found extensive
evidence of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
U.S. officials are on high alert for more interference next
year.
Trump said in advance he expected a “very good con-
versation” with Putin but told reporters that “what I say to
him is none of your business.” His aides have grown wor-
ried that Trump could use the meeting to once again attack
Robert Mueller’s probe on the world stage, particularly
since the special counsel now has a date to testify before
Congress next month.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer pressed the
president Thursday to directly challenge the Russian leader
on election interference and send a signal “not merely to
Putin but to all of our adversaries that interfering with our
election is unacceptable, and that they will pay a price — a
strong price — for trying.”
Putin is among five world leaders with whom Trump
will hold with one-on-one meetings Friday on the side-
lines of the Group of 20 summit in Osaka. The president
went into the meetings complaining that the U.S. has been
“ripped off” by other nations for years and after publicly
airing grievances with Germany, India and even host nation
Japan, whose leaders are all on his schedule for the day.
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ginal tax rates in Spanish. U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New
Jersey showed off his Spanish skills while discussing his
ideas on immigration reform. Former U.S. Housing Secre-
tary Julian Castro, who is Mexican American, gave part of
his closing statement in Spanish.
The Democratic presidential hopefuls peppered their
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during the first televised debate of the 2020 election, evok-
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others.
Their efforts were a testament to the fact that Latinos
are on track to be the largest minority racial or ethnic group
eligible to vote in 2020 with 32 million, according to fig-
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13 percent of the electorate, and the population is strong in
such key states as Arizona, Florida and Colorado.
But using the Spanish language to woo voters is a dou-
ble-edged sword: Advocates looking for clues about how
candidates would respond to issues facing Latinos in the
United States saw the gestures as promising and sincere.
Critics called the moves “hispandering” — a term used to
describe pandering to the Hispanic community.
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