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IMMIGRATION LIMITS Even without travel order, president has broad legal arsenal

By Bloomberg News who have committed seri- ous crimes to include al- Whether President Don- most anyone who entered ald Trump’s ban against illegally, according to Ro- travelers from seven driguez. The government Muslim-majority coun- may also choose to jail tries is saved by revision more people before de- or scrapped by the courts, portation, she said. he’ll still have a vast legal Trump may also expand arsenal for limiting immi- expedited removal, which gration into the U.S. and allows immediate depor- deporting millions of un- tation of people without documented people. proper documentation The law vests the presi- who are found within 100 dent with broad author- miles of the border and ity over immigration, said less than two weeks after Austin Fragomen, whose entry, Rodriguez said. That New York-based Frago- would minimize the cost men, Del Rey, Bernsen of detention facilities and & Loewy is the biggest increase the number of U.S. law firm focused on people deported without a immigration. hearing, but it would likely THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Trump’s Jan. 25 ex- face court challenges. Wilfredo Mendoza of Boston and Christina Villafranca of Malden, Mass., displayed placards Tuesday during a rally in ecutive order titled “En- The president can in- Boston held to demonstrate the continued push for immigration rights and afordable health care coverage. hancing Public Safety in struct State Department the Interior of the United and ICE officials to tighten Immigration a long-standing but ob- jail 34,000 immigrants at Border Patrol agents and States,” signed two days criteria for letting people scure provision of immi- a time. It’s unclear how 10,000 Immigration and before his travel-ban di- into the U.S. and to in- From Page A1 gration law that allows much an increase would Customs Enforcement rective, could result in crease searches at the bor- the government to send cost, but Congress would agents, but it’s unclear hundreds of thousands, der, where agents have alone. Those immigrants some people caught ille- have to approve any new how quickly that could if not millions, of immi- much more freedom to fall into two categories: gally crossing the Mexican spending. take place. grants being rounded up rifle through people’s be- those who crossed the border back to Mexico, After deportations The government also for deportation, according longings than police inside border without permis- regardless of where they reached a record high of plans to review a program to Kelly Lytle Hernandez, the country. Trump has sion and those who over- are from. Those foreigners 434,000 in 2013, intense that allows local police an immigration historian said the order will hasten stayed their visas. would wait in that country pressure from immigra- and jailers to act as immi- at the University of Cali- adoption of “extreme vet- Crossing the bor- for U.S. deportation pro- tion advocates prompted gration agents and a pro- fornia, Los Angeles. The ting” procedures. der illegally is a crimi- ceedings to be complete. the Obama administra- gram that used fingerprint order directs federal agen- The State Department, nal offense, and the new This would be used for tion to implement new records from local jails to cies to vigorously enforce with a directive from memos make clear that people who aren’t consid- guidelines that focused identify immigrants who existing immigration laws Trump, could slow-walk those who have done so ered a threat to cross the enforcement on hard- had been arrested. and vows to withhold fed- visas with longer back- are included in the broad border illegally again, the ened criminals. Obama The Trump adminis- eral funds from jurisdic- ground checks, according list of enforcement priori- memo says. announced in November tration sought to allay tions that don’t comply. to David Leopold, a Cleve- ties. Overstaying a visa is a That provision is almost 2014 that his administra- fears in immigrant com- “We are living in a new land immigration lawyer civil, not criminal, offense. certain to face opposi- tion would deport “felons, munities Tuesday, saying reality and that order is the and former president of Those who do so are not tion from civil libertarians not families.” the directives are not in- beginning,” said Hernan- the American Immigration specifically included in and Mexican officials, and The number of people tended to produce mass dez, a Trump critic. “We Lawyers Association. The the priority list but, under it’s unclear whether the deported in 2015 was just deportations. could quickly begin to see president could also influ- the memos, they are still United States has the au- over 333,000, the low- “We do not have the neighbors disappear.” ence Citizenship and Im- more likely to face depor- thority to force Mexico est since 2007, according personnel, time or re- The Department of migration Services to slow tation than they had been to accept third-country to federal data. Statistics sources to go into com- Homeland Security over- down the adjudication of before. nationals. But the memo for 2016 are not publicly munities and round up sees almost two dozen immigration and asylum The new enforcement also calls for Homeland available. people and do all kinds agencies that determine cases, he said. documents are the lat- Security to provide an ac- More than 408,000 peo- of mass throwing folks who enters and leaves the Trump’s Jan. 27 execu- est efforts by President count of U.S. aid to Mex- ple were apprehended on buses. That’s entirely U.S., including Immigra- tive order also fulfilled a Donald Trump to follow ico, a possible signal that along the southern border a figment of folks’ imagi- tion and Customs En- campaign promise, this through on campaign Trump plans to use that last year. Most were flee- nation,” a DHS official forcement, Customs and one to restrict immigra- promises to strictly en- funding to get Mexico to ing poverty and violence said in a conference call Border Protection and tion for Muslims. He said force immigration laws. accept the foreigners. in Honduras, Guatemala with reporters. The offi- Citizenship and Immigra- the plan wasn’t a Muslim Trump’s earlier immigra- In a hearing Tuesday and El Salvador, three of cial spoke on condition of tion Services. The agency ban but intended to block tion orders, which tempo- with Mexican senators, the most violent countries anonymity. has an annual budget travelers from countries rarily banned all refugees Mexico’s new ambassa- in the world. The directives do not of $41 billion and more rife with terrorism. as well as foreigners from dor to the U.S., Geronimo Immigration lawyers affect President Barack than 229,000 employees. In the face of judges seven Muslim-majority Gutierrez, said the policy have already begun tak- Obama’s program that Trump has broad discre- ruling against the ban, countries, have faced changes “are a cause for ing steps to challenge has protected more than tion to use the money and Trump promised to issue widespread criticism and concern for the foreign Trump’s sweeping new 750,000 young immi- employees as he sees fit a revised order this week, legal action. A federal ap- relations department, for directives. Some of the grants from deportation. without seeking approval presumably avoiding peals court has upheld a the Mexican government, top immigration rights The Deferred Action for from Congress. some of the legal issues temporary halt. and for all Mexicans.” groups and their lawyers Childhood Arrivals re- The president wants that caused judges across Trump has also prom- The memos do not huddled over the week- mains in place, though to bolster that force, say- the country to block parts ised to build a wall at the change U.S. immigration end and Tuesday to de- participants could be de- ing he’ll hire 10,000 more of it. The new order may Mexican border — he in- laws, but take a far harder bate when and how they ported if they commit agents and use state and avoid targeting green-card sists Mexico will eventu- line toward enforcement. want to attack Tuesday’s crimes or otherwise are local law enforcement as holders, who are legal per- ally foot the bill — and One example involves directives. deemed to be threats to immigration officials. As manent residents of the Kelly’s memos reiter- broader use of a program “President Trump does public safety or national part of the executive order, U.S., and people who have ate calls for Homeland that fast-tracks deporta- not have the last word security, according to the Trump vowed to strip existing valid visas, immi- Security to start plan- tions. It will now be ap- here,” said Omar Jadwat, department. funds from so-called sanc- gration experts said. ning for the costs and plied to immigrants who director of the ACLU’s The directives indicate tuary cities that refuse to Trump also has the construction. cannot prove they have Immigrants’ Rights Proj- that some young people cooperate with his crack- power to cap the number Historically, the U.S. been in the United States ect. “The courts and the caught crossing the bor- down. Several state attor- of refugees — people flee- has quickly repatriated longer than two years. public will not allow this der illegally by themselves neys general have vowed ing war and persecution Mexican nationals caught Since at least 2002 that un-American dream to may not be eligible for to fight that initiative. in their home countries at the border but has de- fast-deportation effort — become reality.” special legal protections “He can essentially — under the 1980 Refugee tained immigrants from which does not require a However, Rep. Lamar if they are reunited with unleash ICE officials to Act, said Pratheepan Gu- other countries pend- judge’s order — has been Smith, a Texas Republi- parents in the United enforce however they lasekaram, who teaches ing deportation proceed- used only for immigrants can who sits on the House States. And those par- choose,” said Cristina Ro- constitutional law at Santa ings that could take years. caught within 100 miles Homeland Security Com- ents or other relatives that driguez, a Yale Law School Clara University. Trump’s Kelly said 534,000 im- of the border, within two mittee, applauded the the government believes professor, referring to Im- order to lower the number migration cases are now weeks of crossing illegally. Trump effort, saying the helped the children would migration and Customs of admitted refugees to pending in courts — a 200 The administration also memos “overturn dan- face criminal and immi- Enforcement. 50,000 in fiscal 2017 from percent increase from fis- plans to expand immi- gerous” policies from the gration investigations. Trump has broadened 110,000 the year before cal 2004. gration jail capacity. Cur- Obama administration. Information from Tribune News the Obama administra- hasn’t been questioned by Kelly’s enforcement rently Homeland Security The memos also call Service and The Washington Post tion’s focus on immigrants the courts. plans call for enforcing has money and space to for the hiring of 5,000 new was used in this report. Yiannopoulos apologizes for remarks, quits Breitbart News

By The Associated Press leagues’ important reporting.” Yiannopoulos said the book against comedian and “Ghost- The apology followed days of had already received inter- busters” actress Leslie Jones. NEW YORK — Polarizing right- criticism from fellow conserva- est from other publishers and Early in February, he was wing writer Milo Yiannopoulos tives after the release of video would still come out this year. scheduled to give a talk at the resigned as an editor at Breitbart clips in which Yiannopoulos He pledged to donate 10 per- University of California, Berke- News on Tuesday and apolo- appeared to defend sexual re- cent of the proceeds to child sex ley, but the speech was can- gized for comments he had lationships between men and abuse charities. celled after violent protests. made about sexual relationships boys as young as 13. Yiannopoulos, who was born Yiannopoulos has appeared, between boys and men. In one of them, Yiannopoulos, in Greece and raised in Brit- until now, to revel in those con- Speaking to reporters, Yian- who is gay, said relationships ain, has long been known for troversies and has portrayed nopoulos said that two men, between boys and men could provocative comments about himself as a champion of free including a priest, had touched “help those young boys discover women and Muslims and made speech. Tuesday’s apology, he him inappropriately when he who they are and give them se- his support for Republican Don- said, was the first he’d made. was between the ages of 13 and curity and safety and provide ald Trump clear in the last presi- Still, the video clips, he in- 16. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS them with love and a reliable dential election cycle. sisted, had been edited to re- “My experiences as a victim Milo Yiannopoulos resigned sort of rock, where they can’t He was the technology editor move important context. He led me to believe I could say as an editor at Breitbart after speak to their parents.” at Breitbart News, whose former characterized media report- anything I wanted to on this coming under fire from other On Monday, he was disinvited executive chairman, Steve Ban- ing on the tapes as unfair and subject, no matter how outra- conservatives. from the Conservative Political non, is now a senior adviser to inaccurate. geous,” he said. “But I under- Action Conference after video Trump, who became president “Nonetheless,” he added, “I stand that my usual blend of by that impression.” of his remarks was promoted last month. do say some things on the tapes British sarcasm, provocation He said he was resigning from through social media. Before this controversy, Yi- that I do not mean and which do and gallows humor might have Breitbart, which helped make Publisher Simon & Schuster annopoulos was perhaps best not reflect my views.” He said he come across as flippancy, a him a star, because it would be also announced it would cancel known for getting banned from “would like to restate my disgust lack of care for other victims or, “wrong to allow my poor choice the publication of his upcoming Twitter for helping to lead an at adults who sexually abuse worse, advocacy. I am horrified of words to detract from my col- book, “Dangerous.” online harassment campaign minors.”