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Trump Ends Year in Chaos For news and information consider- Britain says Reuters journal- If you would like to share news or news organization events, and school ation, please send to ists jailed in Myanmar If information with our readers, please news to us includinig your name and [email protected] are innocent send the unique stories, business phone number in case more informa- tion is needed. or contact John Robbins 832-280-5815 Jun Gai 281-498-4310 Publisher: Wea H. Lee President: Catherine Lee Editor: John Robbins Address: 11122 Bellaire Blvd., Houston, TX 77072 E-mail: [email protected] Southern Daily News is published by Southern News Group Daily Inside C2 Tuesday, December 25, 2018 | www.today-america.com | Southern News Group Syria, Mattis, Afghanistan, shut- down: Trump ends year in chaos WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Trump’s presidency has lurched from crisis to crisis since he took office less than two years ago, but Thursday was a landmark day of chaos that appeared to test the resolve of even senior Republican backers in Washington. Defense Secretary James Mattis, a widely respected figure seen as a stabilizing influence inside the administration, handed in his resignation after arguing with Trump over foreign policy in a White House meeting. Mattis then released a letter that showed fundamental policy dif- ferences between the two men and implicitly criticized Trump’s disregard for allies abroad. Stacks of Also on Thursday, Trump resisted pressure to stand down from moving adecision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, made plans to pull crates sit in American forces out of Afghanistan and pushed the U.S. govern- a U.S. Con- ment toward a shutdown over funding for a border wall gressional To top it all off, U.S. share prices tumbled as investors worried office weeks the looming shutdown, slower economic growth and the Federal before the Reserve’s projections for more interest rate hikes next year. end of the Even some of Trump’s friends showed deepening worry about current term where his administration is heading at the halfway point of his on Capi- term. tol Hill in Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally and frequent golf partner, Washington on Thursday praised Mattis, publicly urged Trump to reconsid- er the Syrian pullout and warned that withdrawing troops from Afghanistan could ultimately lead to another attack on America similar to the one on Sept. 11, 2001. “I believe you are on course to make the same mistake President (Barack) Obama made in Iraq ... It will turn out no better for you than it did for him.” Graham tweeted of the Syria move. U.S. top court rejects Trump bid to enforce asylum restrictions WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Circuit Court of Appeals then refused the adminis- their homelands the ability to seek sanctuary in the United Friday dealt a setback to President Donald Trump tration’s request to lift Tigar’s order. States. by refusing to allow his administration to imple- Trump’s comments led to an extraordinary rebuke ment new rules prohibiting asylum for people who by Roberts, who defended the independence of the cross the U.S. border illegally, a key component of federal judiciary and wrote in a public response to his policies aimed making it harder for immigrants Trump on Nov. 21, “We do not have Obama judges to enter and stay in the United States. or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges,” The justices on a 5-4 vote denied the administra- Roberts said. tion’s request to put on hold a California-based The asylum restrictions were made through a federal judge’s order at least temporarily prevent- presidential proclamation Trump issued on Nov. 9 ing it from carrying out the policy intended make alongside a new administration rule. The administra- anyone crossing the U.S.-Mexican border outside tion has sought ways to block thousands of Central of an official port of entry ineligible for asylum. American men, women and children traveling in Conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, who last caravans to escape violence and poverty in their month rebuked Trump over his criticism of the home countries from entering the United States, with judiciary, joined the court’s four liberals in denying Trump calling the people in the caravans a national the administration’s request. Trump’s two Supreme security threat. Court appointees, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gor- such, joined the court’s two other conservatives in Trump’s proclamation stated that mass migration on dissent. the border had precipitated a crisis and he was acting FILE PHOTO: Immigrants from Central America and Mex- Trump had criticized San Francisco-based U.S. to protect the U.S. national interest. Trump’s policy ican citizens queue to cross into the U.S. to apply for asy- District Judge Jon Tigar, who on Nov. 19 blocked was crafted to alter American asylum laws that have lum at the new border crossing of El Chaparral in Tijuana the policy. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. given people fleeing persecution and violence in Tuesday , December 25 2018 C2 LOCAL NEWS Britain says Reuters journalists jailed in Myan- mar are innocent LONDON (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Friday that two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar on charges of breaking the country’s Official Secrets Act were innocent and that Britain had serious concerns about due pro- cess in the case. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were found guilty in September after a trial at a Yangon district court in a case that has raised questions about Myanmar’s progress towards democracy and triggered an outcry from diplomats and human rights advo- cates. Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said in September that the jailing of the reporters had nothing to do with freedom of expression. She said they were not jailed because they were journalists. In a sign of the level of concern among world powers about the case, Britain’s foreign policy chief took the unusual step of re- cording a short video to show his support for the jailed Reuters journalists. “We want the world to remember these two journalists, not just because we believe they are innocent, but also because this is a year when we have seen a big increase in the number of jour- What impact will Gatwick dis- nalists who have been locked up and indeed far worse - mur- ruption have on airlines? dered,” Hunt said. They had been investigating There were 251 journalists jailed for doing their jobs as of Dec. the killing of 10 Rohingya men 1, the Committee to Protect Journalists said in an annual study and boys as part of a military earlier this month. response to insurgent attacks. At least 53 journalists were killed around the world between “We are very worried about due January 1 and December 14, 2018, according to the CPJ, a U.S.- process in this case - it is some- based nonprofit that promotes press freedom. thing that I have raised with Britain’s Hunt said that at a time when people were looking for- Aung San Suu Kyi,” said Hunt. ward to spending time with their families, it was time to reflect He did not elaborate further on on the fate of the two Reuters journalists. the British concerns about the They “are both in prison this Christmas because they wanted to case. report of the Rakhine crisis where there has been some alleged Lawyers for the two Reuters genocide against the Rohingya people in Burma,” Hunt said. reporters have lodged an appeal The Reuters reporters, who pleaded not guilty, said they were against their conviction and handed papers by police shortly before they were detained, and sentence. a police witness testified that they had been set up. 2019 LUNAR NEW YEAR SPECIAL EDITION 2019農曆新年特刊價目表 截止日期 DEADLINE: 1/25/2019 出版日期 PUBLISHING DATE: 2/1/2019 彩色 Color $720.00 □ 160 units $360.00 □ 80 units $180.00 □ 40 units $84.00 □ 16 units 電話 Tel： 傳真 Fax： 客戶名稱 Client’s Name : 地址 Address : 簽名 Signature : I:\#SCDN 公司文件\#AD 價目表&合約\價目表-Chinese New Year price 新年賀版 Tuesday, December 25 C3 Editor’s Choice FILE PHOTO: Aluminium bar stock inside a factory in Dongguan, China, April 10, 2018. REUTERS/Bobby Yip/File Photo Man sits in front of an electronic board showing stock information at a brokerage house in Hangzhou Demonstrators march during a protest against a proposed new labor law, billed as the “slave law”, in Budapest, Hungary December 21, 2018. REUTERS/Marko Djurica FILE PHOTO: Immigrants from Central America and Mexican citizens queue to cross into the U.S. to apply for asylum at the new border crossing of El Chaparral in Tijuana FILE PHOTO: Flavio Bolsonaro, son of Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro is seen White House senior advisor Jared Kushner speaks about criminal justice reform during a bill behind him at the transition government building in Brasilia signing ceremony for the “First Step Act” and the “Juvenile Justice Reform Act” in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., December 21, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts U.S. President Trump holds his pen as he signs the “First Step Act” and the “Juvenile Justice Reform Workers sit at the Franz Haniel shaft during a ceremony marking the closure of the Act” in Oval Office of the White House in Washington last active black coal mine in Bottrop, Germany December 21, 2018. REUTERS/ Thilo Schmuelgen TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2018 C4 COMMUNITY Southern Daily is a Division of Southern News Group - Founded June 16, 1979 | December 25, 2018| Section C4| John T.
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