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McALLEN, Tex. — The nation’stop border security official saidMonday that his agency has tem-porarily stopped handing over mi-grant adults who cross the Mexi-can border with children for pros-ecution, undercutting claims byother Trump administration offi-cials that “zero tolerance” for ille-gal immigration is still in place.

Kevin K. McAleenan, the com-missioner of Customs and BorderProtection, said his agency andthe Justice Department shouldagree on a policy “where adultswho bring their kids across theborder — who violate our lawsand risk their lives at the border —can be prosecuted without an ex-tended separation from their chil-dren.”

Because Immigration andCustoms Enforcement does nothave enough detention space forthe surge of families crossing theborder, many families will bequickly released, with a promiseto return for a court hearing. Mr.McAleenan said that the agencywould continue to refer singleadults for prosecution for illegallycrossing the border, and that bor-der agents would also separatechildren from adults if the child isin danger or if the adult has acriminal record.

Mr. McAleenan’s decision, con-veyed to reporters at a processingcenter here, will at least tempo-rarily revive a “catch and release”approach used during the Obamaadministration. President Trumphas repeatedly railed against thatapproach, saying it invited wavesof crime and violence into theUnited States.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the

BORDER AGENCYHALTS TRANSFERS,SPARING FAMILIES

‘ZERO TOLERANCE’ PAUSE

For Lack of DetentionSpace, a Fast Release

for Some Migrants

This article is by Ron Nixon, EricaL. Green and Michael D. Shear.

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WASHINGTON — For morethan two years, Democrats havestruggled with how aggressivelyto confront Donald J. Trump, apolitical opponent unlike any

other: Shouldthey attack himover his hard-linepolicies; his in-

flammatory, norm-breakingconduct; or some combination ofboth?

In recent days, as institutionalDemocrats wring their hands,those deliberations have startedto give way to furious liberalactivists and citizens who havetaken matters into their ownhands beyond the corridors ofpower.

Progressives have heckled thehomeland security secretary,Kirstjen Nielsen, and the WhiteHouse aide Stephen Miller atWashington restaurants. Theyhave ejected the White Housepress secretary, Sarah HuckabeeSanders, from a Lexington, Va.,eatery. And they have screamedat one of Mr. Trump’s leadingcable news surrogates, Florida’sattorney general, Pam Bondi, ata Tampa movie theater.

“Let’s make sure we show upwherever we have to show up,”Representative Maxine Waters,Democrat of California, saidSaturday at a rally in Los Ange-les. “And if you see anybody fromthat cabinet in a restaurant, in adepartment store, at a gasolinestation, you get out and youcreate a crowd. And you pushback on them. And you tell themthey’re not welcome anymore,anywhere.”

The attempts at shaming havedelighted many on the left, par-ticularly following Mr. Trump’spolicy of separating migrantchildren from their parents, andmany progressives feel that thepresident’s incendiary messag-

Liberals ClashOver SteeringOff High Road

By JONATHAN MARTIN

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POLITICALMEMO

ATLANTIC CITY — The lasttime there was so much hypeabout the future of this troubledseaside resort, Donald J. Trumpwas doing most of the hyping.

The president, then a casino im-presario, opened the Trump TajMahal, the biggest gambling ven-ue on the boardwalk, with great

fanfare and at a cost of $1.2 billionin 1990, only to have it collapseinto bankruptcy the followingyear. After years of decline, it shutdown in 2016, seemingly con-signed to symbolize the ruinousexcess here during the Trump era.

But now, less than two years lat-er, the old Taj, stripped of its fauxminarets, concrete elephants andthe Trump name, is about to re-open as the Hard Rock Hotel & Ca-sino. On the same day, June 28, an-

other failed casino — the epicallydisastrous Revel — is being reani-mated a short stroll up the board-walk as the Ocean Resort.

These revivals are scheduledjust as New Jersey’s casinosscramble to cash in on anotherway of separating gamblers fromtheir savings: wagering on sport-ing events. The Borgata casinostarted taking bets on sports onJune 14 and others, including the

Atlantic City Bets Big, and Hopes Visitors FollowBy PATRICK McGEEHAN

and JOHN TAGGART

Despite officials’ vows, Atlantic City relies more on gambling than on other forms of tourism.JOHN TAGGART FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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WASHINGTON — As Presi-dent Trump pursues a protection-ist trade policy, he has pointed re-peatedly to Harley-Davidson, theiconic American motorcycle man-ufacturer, as a company that willultimately benefit.

Instead, it is getting caught inthe crossfire.

The Wisconsin company said onMonday it would shift some pro-duction of its bikes overseas toavoid stiff retaliatory tariffs im-posed by the European Union inresponse to Mr. Trump’s trademeasures. The company said themove “is not the company’s pref-erence, but represents the onlysustainable option to make itsmotorcycles accessible tocustomers in the E.U. and main-tain a viable business in Europe.”

Mr. Trump’s trade war is begin-ning to ripple through the UnitedStates economy as companiesstruggle with a cascade of tariffshere and abroad. While Mr. Trumpsays his trade policy is aimed atreviving domestic manufactur-ing, Harley-Davidson’s moveshows how the White House ap-proach could backfire as Ameri-can companies increasingly relyon overseas markets for ma-terials, production and sales.

The White House is waging sev-eral trade wars at once, engagingin fights with China, Canada, Mex-ico and the European Union,which have each responded withtheir own retaliatory measures.The trade spats have set off arange of unintended conse-quences, including a profit warn-ing last week by Daimler, whichblamed retaliatory Chinese tariffsfor a slump in the sales of theS.U.V.s it builds in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Mid Continent Nail Corpora-tion, a Missouri-based manufac-turer of nails, said last week that ithad laid off 60 of its 500 employeesand might be forced to close as itstruggles to absorb the highercost of the steel it imports fromMexico to produce its nails. Stockmarkets have swooned over theprospect of an escalating tradewar that could further hurt Ameri-can companies, with the Standard

Facing Tariffs, American IconRetreats in U.S.

By ALAN RAPPEPORT

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NOGALES, Mexico — It wasdinner time at the door to theUnited States, and on a spit offloor separating Mexico from Ari-zona, several families set out theirplates, ripping tortillas and spoon-ing rice and trying to ignore the in-dignities of life on the move.

“It’s weird,” said BrendaAguirre, 23, who was planning tosleep that night with her childrenon a pink mat, curled around herbelongings. Nobody, she pointedout, expects to end up here.

As the debate over the borderrages in Washington, the flow ofmigrants has not stopped, andcrossing points like this one aregrowing into informal bedrooms,

washrooms, schools, kitchens andplaygrounds for families waitingto request asylum in the UnitedStates.

Here in Nogales, officials comeinfrequently to interview peopleseeking entry, and so this place —a patch of ground between a fenceand a line of people who alreadyhave permission to enter theUnited States — is fast becoming asymbol of life in transition. Mostfamilies wait here for days beforebeing granted an initial interviewwith United States immigrationauthorities.

On Saturday, the families wait-

Seeking Sanctuary in America,But Lingering at the Doorstep

By JULIE TURKEWITZ

This boy’s relatives said he was fleeing from criminals in Mexico.JULIE TURKEWITZ/THE NEW YORK TIMES

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HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka —Every time Sri Lanka’s president,Mahinda Rajapaksa, turned to hisChinese allies for loans and assist-ance with an ambitious portproject, the answer was yes.

Yes, though feasibility studiessaid the port wouldn’t work. Yes,though other frequent lenders likeIndia had refused. Yes, though SriLanka’s debt was ballooning rap-idly under Mr. Rajapaksa.

Over years of construction andrenegotiation with China HarborEngineering Company, one of Bei-jing’s largest state-owned enter-prises, the Hambantota Port De-velopment Project distinguisheditself mostly by failing, as pre-dicted. With tens of thousands of

ships passing by along one of theworld’s busiest shipping lanes, theport drew only 34 ships in 2012.

And then the port became Chi-na’s.

Mr. Rajapaksa was voted out ofoffice in 2015, but Sri Lanka’s newgovernment struggled to makepayments on the debt he had tak-en on. Under heavy pressure andafter months of negotiations withthe Chinese, the governmenthanded over the port and 15,000acres of land around it for 99 years

in December.The transfer gave China control

of territory just a few hundredmiles off the shores of a rival, In-dia, and a strategic foothold alonga critical commercial and militarywaterway.

The case is one of the most vividexamples of China’s ambitious useof loans and aid to gain influencearound the world — and of its will-ingness to play hardball to collect.

The debt deal also intensifiedsome of the harshest accusationsabout President Xi Jinping’s sig-nature Belt and Road Initiative:that the global investment andlending program amounts to adebt trap for vulnerable countriesaround the world, fueling corrup-tion and autocratic behavior in

In Hock to China, Sri Lanka Gave Up TerritoryBy MARIA ABI-HABIB

The new Hambantota port gets only a small portion of Sri Lanka’s port business. Feasibility studies predicted its poor performance.ADAM DEAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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How Beijing Exploited aWasteful Port Project

for Strategic Gain

MARKETS FALL Investors’ seem-ing tolerance for trade tensionsgave way, and tech shares werehit especially hard. PAGE B3

LATE RESPONSE President Trumpwas slow to come to his presssecretary’s defense, a sign hemay be souring on her. PAGE A12

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ofTurkey has the sweeping powers he hasinsisted he needs. Now what? PAGE A10

INTERNATIONAL A4-11

Hard Part Is Next for Erdogan

After the U.S. broke off a nuclear deal,Tehran is changing, but not in the waysPresident Trump claims. PAGE A4

What’s Changing in Iran

An immigration raid at a Tennesseemeatpacking plant stirred the wholetown, not just its immigrants. PAGE A18

NATIONAL A12-20

An ICE Raid and Its AftermathU.S. intelligence officials met with eighttop tech companies in May to discusshow to combat foreign meddling in thisyear’s midterm elections. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-6

Silicon Valley’s Midterm Role

Over 16 years, Simon Rattle transformedthe Berlin Philharmonic. Michael Coo-per explains how he did it. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

The End of an EraA lab in Philadelphia is studying what ittakes to kill “super coral” to understandthe impact of human activities on reefsof the deep ocean. PAGE D1

SCIENCE TIMES D1-6

A Coral’s Breaking Point

Paul Krugman PAGE A27

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27

In its final group stage game, Spainplayed Morocco to a 2-2 tie, winningGroup B and moving on, with Portugal,to the knockout round. PAGE B8

SPORTSTUESDAY B7-13

Spain Advances Despite Draw

The actor Jeffrey Wright discusses theshow and explains why the plotline canget a little confusing at times. PAGE C1

‘Westworld’ Made Easier

Even high-scoring minority studentsoften don’t get into advanced classes.But that may be changing. PAGE A13

Narrowing the ‘Excellence Gap’

New Yorkers have a congressionalprimary on Tuesday and a primary forstate offices in September, sowingconfusion for voters. PAGE A21

NEW YORK A21-23

Two Primaries in One Year

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