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IMMIGRATION

BOCA DEL RÍO, Mexico (AP)

It’s almost as if Letty Stegall is there, back home in the United

States, beside her daugh-ter to prod her awake for school. When her husband goes to the grocery store, she fusses over the list with him. At the bar she helped run, she still gives regulars a warm welcome, and around the dinner table at night, she beams when she sees what her family managed to cook.

But Stegall’s face only appears on a screen, and her words come in unreli-able cell connections and a barrage of texts. Lives once lived together are divided by some 1,600 miles. A woman who married an American and gave birth to an American and who came to think of herself as American, too, is now deported to her native Mexico.

“I wish I was there. That’s all that I want,” she says of her life in Kansas City, Missouri. “I want my family back.”

As the United States takes a harder line on immigration, thousands who called

the country home are being forced to go. Often, they leave behind spouses and children with American citizen-ship and must figure out how to go on with families frac-tured apart. Studies have found an esti-mated 8 million to 9 million Ameri-cans — the major-ity of them children — live with at least one relative who is in the country ille-gally, and so each action to deport an immigrant is just as likely to entangle a citizen or legal U.S.

resident.Stegall’s deportation means she could

be banned from the U.S. for a decade. She prays paperwork seeking to validate her return through her marriage could wind through the system within two years, but there is no guarantee.

For now, she is a stranger in the vaguely familiar land she left as a 21-year-old in 1999, her phone and laptop the only windows to a life that’s no longer hers. When her 17-year-old daughter, Jenni-fer Tadeo-Uscanga, arrives home from school, Stegall is there on FaceTime to greet her. She watches streaming feeds from 16 cameras at the bar she manages remotely. She gives Steve Stegall, her husband of six years, a goodnight kiss by pressing her lips to her cellphone screen.

The four-dimensional, analog world she loved has been flattened and digi-tized. She recognizes how odd it all may seem, but she wonders what other choice she has. Should she pull Jennifer from the only country she’s ever known, where her dreams of college and career seem so achievable? Should she ask Steve — born and bred in Kansas City — to abandon their business and home and come to a place where he can’t speak the language and his safety might be jeopardized by drug cartels?

The questions hang in the thick summer air.

“I lost everything,” she says. “It’s just me.”

Deportations take unique toll on blended American families

Jennifer Tadeo-Uscanga, 17, walks down a staircase lined with family photos at the Kansas City, Mo., home she once shared with her mother, Letty Stegall, on May 24.

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IMMIGRATION: Deportations take unique toll on blended American families

STATE: Police investigate alleged racist attack on Hispanic mayor in Burien

NATIONAL: Administration reports nearly 1,200 family reunifications

LATIN AMERICA: Mexican president-elect vows improvements to deter migration

IMMIGRATION: US makes it difficult for Central Americans to get asylum

LATIN AMERICA: Nicaragua’s Ortega denies responsibility for deaths

SPORTS: Nicolas Lodeiro scores twice, Sounders beat Vancouver 2-0

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BURIEN, Washington (AP)

The attack that Jimmy Matta, mayor of the city of Burien in the state of Washington suf-

fered last weekend, is being investigated as an alleged hate crime, according to local police.

As Theodore Boe, chief of police in Burien (a city south of Seattle), pointed out at a press conference, after grabbing him from behind, the attacker said to the mayor: “The illegals will not take over our community.”

Spokespeople of King County, where Burien is located, told The Seattle Times that the attacker, according to some tes-timony, was a man in his 60s, and that he could face charges of hate crimes accord-ing to state laws.

Last Saturday, Mayor Jimmy Matta, who in 2017 became the first Latino to be elected to this position in the city’s 25-year history, was attacked while attending a block party in the Olde Burien neighbor-hood in the center of the city.

According to the complaint that Matta

made to the police, the attacker grabbed him by the neck from behind and pushed him to the ground, after threatening him and expressing his annoyance over a local ordinance that instructs the police and local officials not to question about the migratory status of the residents.

The attacker left before the police

arrived at the scene.At the press conference, the mayor said

he reported the incident to the police to show members of the Latino community that there is no need to fear and to report if they have been the target of similar threats or attacks.

“You have the right to express your

opinion, we should never fear being attacked for exercising those rights,” said Matta, who, in addition to police chief Boe, was accompanied by his two daughters.

On Sunday, the mayor used his Face-book account to denounce that he was “physically assaulted and verbally threatened by a man who was upset because Burien is a Sanctuary City” and because he is “a Latino mayor.”

“I will not tolerate being threat-ened by anyone, you have the right to vote and express your concerns, but when you put your hands on me I will denounce you and ask our legal system to handle it.”

The police officers are still determin-ing the identity of the attacker, although they shave the name of a possible suspect.

In a statement, the city and the Burien police confirmed that they are continu-ing their commitment to Ordinance 651, which states that local authorities will not investigate or collect information on the immigration or religious status of resi-dents.

Police investigate alleged racist attack on Hispanic mayor in Burien

Jimmy Matta, mayor of the city of Burien, Washington.



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SAN DIEGO, California (AP)

Nearly 1,200 children 5 and older have been reunited with their families after

being separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, leaving hundreds to go before this week’s court-imposed deadline, according to a Justice Department court filing on Monday that raised the possibility that many parents have been deported.

There have been 1,187 reunifications with parents, sponsors and guardians by the Health and Human Services Department’s Office of Refugee Reset-tlement. which took custody of the children, the filing said. The admin-istration has identified 2,551 children 5 and older who have been separated from their families.

U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw has set a deadline of Thursday for the gov-ernment to reunite all older children with their parents. He set an earlier deadline for dozens of children under 5.

The filing indicates there are 463

adults who may not be in the United States. It says those findings are based on case notes and are under review.

More than 1,600 adults were believed

eligible for reunification, including 217 who have been released by immigra-tion authorities into the United States, according to the filing. More than 500

were vetted and awaiting transporta-tion.

More than 900 were “not eligible, or not yet known to be eligible,” many of them undergoing vetting.

The administration was still working to develop a list of how many adults have been deported.

Sabraw has ordered frequent updates as the deadline nears. The adminis-tration and the American Civil Liber-ties Union, which represents the fam-ilies, are due in court Tuesday for the seventh time this month to discuss the status.

Last week, the judge temporarily halted deportations of families to give the government time to respond to the ACLU’s request that parents have a week to decide if they want to seek asylum after they rejoin their children.

The government’s response was due by Monday morning. But the two sides asked for a one-day extension as they sought to iron out differences, poten-tially setting the stage for the halt to be lifted.

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LATIN AMERICA

MEXICO CITY (AP)

President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Sunday released a seven-page letter he

sent to U.S. President Donald Trump detailing how he plans to improve Mexi-co’s economy and security when he takes office in December so that Mexicans do not feel the need to migrate.

“There will be many changes,” he promised in the letter. “And in this new atmosphere of progress with well-being, I’m sure we can reach agreements to con-front together the migration phenom-enon as well as the problem of border insecurity.”

Lopez Obrador also suggested the two countries draft a development plan backed by public funds and invite Central American countries to join, with the aim of making it “economically unnecessary” for Central Americans to migrate.

Marcelo Ebrard, who is slated to become Mexico’s foreign minister, read the letter aloud to reporters gath-ered at Lopez Obrador’s political party

headquarters. Ebrard said Trump had received the letter.

The incoming Mexican president plans to cut government salaries, perks and jobs. Savings from those cuts, he says, will be directed toward social pro-

grams and infrastructure. He also plans to reduce taxes for the private sector in the hopes of spurring investment and job creation.

Lopez Obrador said Sunday that some of his future collaborators in govern-

ment posts have offered to work for free during his six-year term. Several of his proposed Cabinet members are indepen-dently wealthy.

“It’s an enormous privilege to par-ticipate in a process of transformation. There’s no price on this,” the president-elect said.

He said he will publish salaries of gov-ernment employees, from high-rank-ing ministers to police officers. He also said his political party, Morena, will turn down the extra public financing it is sup-posed to receive next year because it won additional seats in Congress.

Lopez Obrador said Morena could collect up to 1.4 billion pesos ($73.5 million) and more than double what it was allocated for 2018. Mexican elec-toral authorities assigned the party 650 million pesos for this year.

“That’s too much in an atmosphere of austerity,” Lopez Obrador said.

He said he doesn’t want Morena to turn into an economic power with career politicians who forget that their mission is to serve the people.

Mexican president-elect vows improvements to deter migration

Mexico’s President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, right, and his future Foreign Minister, Marcelo Ebrard, speaks to the press outside his party’s headquarters in Mexico City, Sunday, July 22, 2018.

IMMIGRATION

LOS FRESNOS, Texas (AP)

Patricia Aragon told the U.S. asylum officer at her recent case assessment that she was fleeing

her native Honduras because she had been robbed and raped by a gang member who threatened to kill her and her 9-year-old daughter if she went to the police.

Until recently, the 41-year-old seam-stress from San Pedro Sula would have had a good chance of clearing that first hurdle in the asylum process due to a "credible fear" for her safety, but she didn't. The officer said the Honduran govern-ment wasn't to blame for what happened to Aragon and recommended that she not get asylum, meaning she'll likely be sent home.

"The U.S. has always been character-ized as a humanitarian country," Aragon said through tears at Port Isabel, a remote immigration detention center tucked among livestock and grapefruit groves near Los Fresnos, a town about 15 miles (25kilometers) from the Mexico border.

"My experience has been very difficult."

As part of the Trump admin-istration's broader crackdown on immigration, Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently tightened the restrictions on the types of cases that can qualify someone for asylum, making it harder for Central Americans who say they're fleeing the threat of gangs, drug smugglers or domestic vio-lence to pass even the first hurdle for securing U.S. protection.

Immigration lawyers say that's meant more asylum seekers failing interviews with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to establish credible fear of harm in their home countries. They also say that immigration judges, who work for the Justice Department, are overwhelm-ingly signing off on those recommenda-tions during appeals, effectively ending what could have been a yearslong asylum process almost before it's begun.

"This is a direct, manipulated attack on

the asylum process," said Sofia Casini of the Austin nonprofit Grassroots Leader-ship, which has been working with immi-grant women held at the nearby T. Don Hutto detention center who were sepa-rated from their kids under a widely con-demned policy that President Donald Trump ended on June 20.

Casini said that of the roughly 35 sep-arated mothers her group worked with, more than a third failed their credible fear interviews, which she said is about twice the failure rate of before the new restric-

tions took effect. Nationally, more than 2,000 immigrant children and parents have yet to be reunited, including Aragon and her daughter, who is being held at a New York children's shelter and whose future is as unclear as her moth-er's.

In order to qualify for asylum, seekers must demonstrate that they have a well-founded fear they'll be persecuted back home based on their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinions. The interviews with USCIS asylum officers,

which typically last 30 to 60 minutes, are sometimes done by phone. Any evidence asylum seekers present to support their claims must be translated into English, and they often don't have lawyers present.

The agency has funding for 687 asylum officers this fiscal year, but only about 510 are actually working at field offices nation-wide. About 75 percent of USCIS' total asylum staff members were on detail to detention facilities in border states at the end of June.

US makes it difficult for Central Americans to get asylum

In this June 20, 2018, file photo, sisters from Guatemala seeking asylum, cross a bridge to a port of entry in to the United States

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LATIN AMERICA

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP)

Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega said he will not move up elections despite street pro-

tests that have seen more than 300 deaths in the past three months, but is open to continuing a dialogue mediated by the Roman Catholic Church.

In a recorded interview broadcast Monday by Fox News, Ortega denied that he controls paramilitary groups blamed for most of the killings. They are supported by his political opponents and foreign interests, he said.

That is counter to what international organizations and Nicaraguan human rights groups have documented. Last week, the Organization of American States adopted a resolution condemning human rights abuses committed by Nica-raguan police and armed pro-govern-ment civilians.

“We were elected by the voters,” Ortega said. The next election is not scheduled until 2021. “And then we’ll have to see who will be voted in for the new admin-

istration.”Ortega also

denied responsi-bility for attacks on the Catholic Church, whose facilities and clergy have faced a number of aggres-sions in recent weeks.

Last week, in a speech on the anniversary of the Nicaraguan rev-olution, Ortega accused Catholic bishops of working with coup plotters, saying that dis-qualified them as mediators.

But in the interview, Ortega said, “We invite the Catholic Church to continue with the dialogue so the dialogue can grow and develop in an open manner.” Nicaragua’s bishops met Monday behind

closed doors to discuss how to restart talks between the government and oppo-sition.

Monday saw marches in Managua both against and in favor of the govern-ment.

It was the Day of the Student in Nica-

ragua, a remembrance for four students killed in Leon by the National Guard during a protest in 1959. Monday’s peaceful student march ended in front of the locked gates of the private Universidad Centroamericana, one of several universities that have been closed since protests erupted in mid-April against since cancelled cuts to the country’s pension system.

Angelica Mayorga, a shop-keeper, stood in front of the campus waving a Nicaraguan flag at passing traffic. In spite of the fact that in recent days Ortega’s government retook control of the last student-held campus and snuffed out public displays of resistance in the city

of Masaya, Mayorga said she and others will continue their public protest.

“We’re going to continue forward until this student-killing dictator leaves,” she said. “We want a free Nicaragua. We’re not afraid.”

Nicaragua’s Ortega denies responsibility for deaths

People march with Nicaraguan national flags during the commemoration of Student Day, demanding the ouster of President Daniel Ortega and the release of political prisoners, in

Managua, Nicaragua, Monday, July 23, 2018.

SPORTS

SEATTLE, Washington (AP)

Nicolas Lodeiro was spot on again from the penalty spot - and the Seattle Sounders

once again got a result to show for it.Lodeiro opened the scoring on a

penalty kick and added another first-half goal in Seattle’s 2-0 victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday.

The Sounders (5-9-5) extended their season-high unbeaten streak to four games (2-0-2). Vancouver (7-9-5) lost for the fourth time in the last five games.

Lodeiro opened the scoring in the fifth minute when he converted the penalty kick, this one after defender Doneil Henry was called for hand ball in the box. After putting one in straight down the middle in last week’s 1-1 tie at MLS-leading Atlanta, Lodeiro drilled this one into the back left corner past Whitecaps goalkeeper Stefan Marinovic.

‘’I need to change (directions) because I think the keepers know me. So some-times, I shoot different,’’ Lodeiro said.

In the 31st minute, Lodeiro made it 2-0 on a curling 25-yard shot from the left of the arc. Marinovic barely got his outstretched left hand on it, but could only knock the ball down before it took two bounces on its way into the other side of the net. Lodeiro has four goals for the year.

‘’When I shot it, I think the ball was going in the goal, but not like that,’’ Lodeiro said. ‘’Sometimes, I need luck, too.’’

Sounders coach Brian Schmetzer, whose team is still trying to climb back into contention for a 10th con-secutive playoff berth, didn’t down-play luck. But he said that wasn’t the only factor in Saturday’s outcome.

‘’You also make your own luck,’’ Schmetzer said. ‘’The guys went out there today and performed at a high level. Vancouver is desperate for points. They rested a lot of guys in their midweek game, so they were prepared for this match.”

Newly signed Peruvian striker Raul

Ruidiaz, who scored 40 goals in two seasons for Morelia in Liga MX, made his Sounders debut, subbing on in the

61st minute. He was in uniform for last week’s game at Atlanta, but he did not play.

Nicolas Lodeiro scores twice, Sounders beat Vancouver 2-0

Seattle Sounders midfielder Nicolas Lodeiro celebrates after scoring a goal during an MLS match on Saturday, July 23, 2018 in Seattle, Washington. Photo by Braulio Herrera

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