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Tuesday 12 sepTember 2017
California challenges Trump’s end to young immigrant program

by parents or by parents said she “was given wings”
who overstayed visas than by the program. If it ends,
any other U.S. state. she said, “I don’t know
The lawsuit’s legal argu- what’s going to become
ments largely mirror those of my life.” She was joined
already filed in a lawsuit by 21-year-old Eva Jimenez
last week by 15 other states of Visalia, who is attending
and the District of Colum- the University of California,
bia. Attorney generals for Davis, and said she is terri-
the states of Maine, Mary- fied that the program might
land and Minnesota joined end. The lawsuit alleges the
California’s lawsuit. Trump Administration vio-
California Attorney Gen- lated the Constitution and
eral Xavier Becerra said other laws when it rescind-
California’s case is stronger ed the program.
than the first lawsuit, filed It was announced as Mex-
last week, because more ico’s top diplomat, Foreign
than 200,000 of the 800,000 Relations Secretary Luis
participants in the Deferred Videgaray visited Califor-
Action for Childhood Arriv- nia’s state capital to meet
als program live in the state. with lawmakers and DACA
“I don’t think there’s any recipients as part of a two-
doubt that California has day trip. California’s state
the most to lose,” he said, lawmakers are also expect-
flanked by two program ed to soon unveil changes
In this Sept. 5, 2017 photo, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, right, flanked by Secretary participants who were to a bill aimed at limiting
of State Alex Padilla, speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Sacramento. Becerra filed a lawsuit
Monday, Sept. 11, against the Trump administration over its decision to end the Deferred Action brought to the United state and local officials’ co-
for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, that protects young immigrants from deportation who States as 4-year-olds who operation with federal im-
were brought to the U.S. illegally as children or by parents who overstayed visas. now attend college in the migration authorities. Cali-
(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) Sacramento area. fornia already has some of
By DON THOMPSON administration Monday tion, saying it would be es- Rosa Barrientos, 23, of East the most protective laws in
Associated Press over its decision to end a pecially hard hit because it Los Angeles, who is now the country for immigrants
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — program that shields young has more of the immigrants attending California State detained by local law
California sued the Trump immigrants from deporta- brought to the U.S. illegally University, Sacramento, enforcement.q

Racial politics color New York City’s looming mayoral race

By STEVE PEOPLES Donald Trump.
Associated Press The president is not on the
NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor ballot in Tuesday’s mayoral
Bill de Blasio isn’t much of primary or in the November
a dancer. But there he was general election. Yet Trump
on a recent Sunday morn- has fueled racial divisions
ing, bobbing his head and across America that have
bending his knees ever so helped shape de Blasio’s
slightly, as the Lenox Road push to become the city’s
Baptist Church choir belted first Democrat re-elected
out another hymn. He was mayor since Ed Koch in
the only white person cele- 1985. De Blasio, like Demo-
brating with the congrega- crats across America, has
tion, gathered in a central been forced into an awk-
Brooklyn house of worship ward dance at times with
he was visiting for the first an electorate torn by the
time since becoming New Republican president’s
York City’s mayor nearly view on race and immigra-
four years ago. tion. “He is racist. Period,”
“I need you,” de Blasio told de Blasio said of Trump in
congregants after the mu- an Associated Press inter-
sic stopped. In a Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017 photo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, top center, accompanied view. “Unfortunately, this is
Indeed, the Democratic by City Council candidate Alicka Samuels, far right, hold a meet-and-greet with residents along a guy that does not see all
mayor knows the city’s Utica Avenue, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The city’s minority population holds the key people as equal.”
massive minority popula- to the mayor’s re-election test. But the first term Democrat, like his national party, is treading De Blasio charged into
tion is one reason he holds carefully as he navigates racial politics in the era of President Donald Trump. the monument debate af-
a nearly unassailable po- (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) ter Trump said there were
sition on the eve of Tues- neighborhoods after en- kept crime at historic lows. working-class base. “very fine people” on both
day’s primary election de- acting changes in polic- He also alienated some po- The story of de Blasio’s 2017 sides of the Charlottesville
spite a first term with plenty ing and education policies lice officers who question re-election in some ways clash. The mayor said he
of political missteps. that benefited immigrants whether he’s more com- mirrors that of the Demo- would appoint a commis-
De Blasio, whose wife is and minorities. He’s ex- mitted to the Black Lives cratic Party’s broader sion to examine potentially
black, has won acclaim panded free preschool ed- Matter movement than to struggle with racial poli- problematic statues and
in many majority-minority ucation dramatically and the party’s traditional white tics in the age of President plaques.q