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U.S. NEWS Saturday 20 OctOber 2018

Big numbers of Central

Americans arriving at Arizona

border

By ANITA SNOW eight Hondurans. They in- “incredibly high volume”
Associated Press cluded 52 children, nine of of migrant families showing
PHOENIX (AP) — Large them 5 years and younger. up at the border.
groups of Central Ameri- The mass crossing occurred “Coordinated smuggling of
can migrants continue to while another drama was large numbers of Central
surrender to Border Patrol being played out much far- Americans is taking place
agents in Arizona with the ther south as a caravan of daily here,” Yuma Sector
arrival of one recent group several thousand Central Chief Patrol Agent Anthony
numbering 108 captured American migrants trav- Porvaznik said in a written
in dramatic video images, eled northbound, prompt- statement.
authorities said Friday. ing President Donald Trump Before the arrival of the
The agency said cam- to warn Mexico to stop latest group, authorities
era operators monitoring them from reaching the said that collectively more
movement Thursday after- U.S. border. than 1,400 migrants had
noon along the U.S.-Mexico Arizona Border Patrol been left by smugglers in This image from video provided by the Yuma Sector Border
border in the Yuma area agents for weeks have the broiling desert — or in Patrol shows a large group of Central American migrants being
captured images of a large been overwhelmed by the one case in a drenching dropped over the U.S.-Mexico border wall east of the San Luis
number of people being arrival of large numbers of thunderstorm — in remote Port of Entry in Yuma, Arizona, on Friday, Oct. 19, 2018.
dropped over the border Central American migrants areas by Arizona’s border Associated Press
wall east of the San Luis Port traveling in families. with Mexico since Aug. 20. groups of migrant families While Mexican men travel-
of Entry. U.S. Immigration and Cus- One group was as large as near Yuma, or farther to the ing without relatives once
It said the smugglers never toms Enforcement in Ari- 275 people. east on a remote dirt road made up the bulk of the
crossed the border while zona earlier this month Unlike Texas, where people running along the south- migrants, Guatemalans
they helped migrants over began releasing hundreds turn themselves in on the ern limit of the Organ Pipe and other Central Ameri-
the wall in four places. of people to await court banks of the Rio Grande, Cactus National Monu- cans traveling in families or
The group was comprised dates, saying it didn’t have the smugglers near Ari- ment near the Lukeville Port as unaccompanied minors
of 100 Guatemalans and the capacity to hold an zona have been dumping of Entry. are now the norm.q

Chicago man charged with using social media for terrorists

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago man accused Weisman read the charge and returned him ting blocked.
of creating propaganda to promote Islamic to jail to await a detention hearing next Thurs- “Participate in the war. Spread fear,” Al Safoo
State was charged Friday with conspiring to day. It wasn’t immediately known if Al Safoo told allies, according to the FBI. “(IS) does not
use social media to support a terrorist orga- has a lawyer who could comment on the want you to watch it only. It incites you, and if
nization. case. it fails to do so, use it to incite others. Betrayal
A 58-page criminal complaint describes The government said Al Safoo is a 34-year- is a grave sin that cannot be forgiven even by
Ashraf Al Safoo as a key figure in a group that old naturalized citizen who was born in Mosul, fasting the whole month of Ramadan.”
distributes violent videos, photos and provoc- Iraq, and moved to the U.S. in 2008. He told In October 2017, Khattab created a video
ative messages on behalf of IS. the judge that he has a master’s degree in “glorifying death in battle on behalf of ISIS
“Homegrown terrorists and lone-actor op- computer science. and encouraging individuals to fight for ISIS,”
erators continue to represent a threat to the In a court filing, the FBI described IS propa- the FBI said.
homeland,” said Jeffrey Sallet, head of the FBI ganda as a cat-and-mouse game, with Al The video showed a gift under a Christmas
in Chicago. Safoo and allies at Khattab Media Foun- tree that contained a bomb with a timer tick-
Al Safoo appeared in federal court on a con- dation hijacking social media accounts to ing down before cutting to a news clip of a
spiracy charge. U.S. Magistrate Judge David spread messages while trying to avoid get- mass shooting, the FBI said.q