SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 2017 sandiegouniontribune.com $2.77 PLUS TAX SUNDAY TRUMP PLAN FLORIDA BRACES FOR IRMA’S TO CANCEL DACA PUTS SLOW CRAWL OVER STATE MEXICO ON HIGH ALERT Critics: Country welcoming, but not ready for deportees BY SANDRA DIBBLE They are native sons and daughters who left Mexico at a young age, grew up in the United States, and now face the possibility of a forced return to a coun- try most can barely remember — if at all. Hundreds of thousands of these young and undocumented Mexican im- migrants are now struggling with an un- certain future. Questions about their fate have also loomed large in Mexico in recent days, forcing a closer look at how the country receives U.S. deportees. The wake-up call came Tuesday, with the Trump administration’s an- nouncement that it is canceling the Obama-era Deferred Action for Child- hood Arrivals (DACA) program. While it’s not a path to U.S. citizenship or per- manent resident status, the DACA pro- gram since 2012 has allowed participa- nts to study, work and live in the United States without fear of deportation. With that protection being lifted, Con- gress has been given six months to find a solution. Across Mexico, the news of DACA’s AP cancellation for many has cut to the STEPHEN B. MORTON quick. President Enrique Peña Nieto Elizabeth Ponder (center) hugs her daughter while standing in line at the Savannah, Ga., Civic Center as they evacuate SEE MEXICO • A14 from the path of Hurricane Irma on Saturday. More than 6.5 million people in Florida and Georgia were ordered to flee. EVACUATIONS: Tens of thousands fill shelters as storm’s path moves toward the state’s Gulf Coast DACA PROFILES HEAVY DAMAGE: Hurricane lashes Cuba as death toll across the Caribbean rises to at least 25 BY JOEL ACHENBACH, the west side of the peninsula. Irma’s projected path KATIE ZEZIMA & PERRY STEIN Officials along the Gulf Coast ‘DREAMERS’ scrambled to open shelters for a (as of Saturday night) Hurricane Irma began its de- stampede of residents newly SAY THEY WILL structive crawl over Florida on alarmed when Irma swung her 2 p.m. Wed. Saturday, with brutal winds fury their way. Thousands were KY. flattening trees and knocking lined up to enter an arena in out power across the southern Naples even as early wind gusts FIGHT TO STAY TENN. 2 p.m. Tue. Atlantic tip of the state in what residents climbed above 75 mph at some BY KATE MORRISSEY feared were the opening blows South Florida airports. GA. Ocean of a historically devastating “The storm is here,” Florida ALA. 2 p.m. Mon. When “dreamers” talk about what the storm. Gov. Rick Scott said at a news Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals The hurricane, which left a conference Saturday. program has meant to them, one word Potential track area wake of at least 25 deaths in the The National Hurricane Caribbean, approached Florida Center downgraded Irma to a comes up more than any others — free- FLA. dom. 2 a.m. Mon. with thousands of residents still Category 3 storm Saturday, After Tuesday’s announcement that Gulf of on the move. More than 6 million with maximum sustained winds ends the program with a six-month de- Mexico Ta m pa people across the state were or- of 125 mph. But the storm was lay, those who benefited from DACA dered to leave threatened areas, strengthening as it approached 2 p.m. Sun. have said they won’t give up that free- 5 p.m. Sat. one of the largest emergency in the Atlantic and was ex- dom without a fight. They are rallying, evacuations in U.S. history. pected to make landfall in the protesting and lobbying, and many are Some were forced to flee Florida Keys around 5 a.m. local stepping forward to share their stories. CUBA more than once as the storm’s time today as a Category 4 They hope that their efforts will lead changing path shifted the bull’s- storm. It was driving a storm Congress to pass legislation giving them Sources: Maps4News/HERE; National Hurricane Center AP eye of panic from the east side to SEE IRMA • A5 permanent permission to be in the U.S. Several polls show that the American public wants to see such legislation pass. Many who support President Donald Trump’s immigration policies would IN DEPTH prefer that legislation protecting dream- ers include increased enforcement in other areas, including funding for more Diocese, victims agents and Trump’s border wall. Many dreamers have rejected being used as a “bargaining chip” to further still cope with Trump’s immigration agenda. They don’t want protection for themselves coming at the expense of those they care fallout 10 years about. Read the stories of three dreamers, Ignacio Hernandez, Iveth Estrada and after settlement Irving Hernandez De La Torre, on A15. BY PETER ROWE Diocese of San Diego agreed to pay $198.1 million to settle BUSINESS Whenever Heidi Lynch the lawsuits filed by Lynch thinks about priests molest- and 143 other adults. As chil- ing children, her stomach dren, each had been sexually U-T JOURNALIST churns, her head spins and assaulted by a priest or, in her questions multiply. one case, a layman supervis- BIDS FAREWELL HOWARD LIPIN U-T “Are they really taking ing altar boys. Business columnist Dan Heidi Lynch, who was sexually abused by a priest as a girl during weekly care of the children?” asked This was a landmark mo- McSwain says explaining things catechism classes, holds dog tags with a photo of herself at 8 years old. Lynch, a 60-year-old San Car- ment in one the largest scan- clearly to readers — which uses a los resident, who between the dals in the church’s 2,000- lot of brainpower — has always ages of 8 and 11 was repeat- year-old history. From Dub- been his greatest mission. That’s edly raped by a priest. “Are lin to Manila, Boston to Port- why even a “normal” cognitive they really taking care of the land, Ore., Catholic officials decline has convinced him it’s $198.1 million abusers? Are they still hiding were hauled into court to ac- time to call it quits. Read his final this?” count for shielding predatory column on C1. 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Coming out of prison is “Clang clang, go the jail ate, to express their hopes “When you live with each tough, Kramer said, as is the guitar doors ...” and triumphs, disappoint- other,” said Glenn Jefferson, self-emancipation Marley After sharing his back- ments and frustrations. 63, “you get to know each preached. Kramer recalled ground with his audience, With music, say. other as people.” beingbaffledbyhis first post- Kramer was approached by a “I love music,” said Jefferson is serving a 25- prison visit to a supermarket. prisoner. Joshua Nichols, 37, a native to-life term for unarmed “All those choices!” he “That Clash story,” said San Diegan and convicted bank robbery in 1979. During said. the prisoner. “Is that for murderer who has been in- his years in federal and state Kramer is now a success- real?” carcerated since 1999. “I’m correctional institutions, ful composer of music for TV “It’s for real,” Kramer not very musically inclined, he’s written poetry and a few and movies (HBO’s “East- said. but it piqued my interest songs. bound and Down,” “The Big For his cause, Kramer when I heard there would be “But I know two chords,” Short”). Still, he warned his borrowed the Clash’s song ti- guitar classes.” he said. “That’s it.” audience, bad days await ev- tle: “Jail Guitar Doors.” JOHN GIBBINS U-T His years in prison, Nich- He’s eager to expand his eryone, no matter what their Wayne Kramer performs for inmates at the Richard ols said, gave him a new goal: musical skills. “We’ll not only careers or living conditions. Concrete gulags Donovan Correctional Facility.