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Here's a clip from a National Christmas Tree lighting of yore: A protester stole the microphone during an event for African American supporters of Pete Buttigieg: Protester steals mic at event for African American supporters of Pete Buttigieg Green New Deal protesters crashed a birthday party for Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.), demanding he endorse a tax on billionaires: Green New Deal protesters crash Cuomo's private birthday event "Armed with signs, birthday hats, party horns and a sheet cake with #MakeBillionairesPay written in curly red icing, members of several advocacy groups assembled outside the Essex Hotel in Manhattan to pressure the Democratic governor to embrace more stringent policies to combat climate change, and to implement a tax on billionaires to help pay for public services." (Kayla Epstein) And Stephen Colbert joked that while his show's parent companies — CBS and Viacom — EFTA00047443
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The Daily 202: Lock them up, Elizabeth Warren says about border agents who mistreat immigrants From The Washington Post To The Washington Post Date 2019,07/15 10:44 Subject: The Daily 202: Lock them up, Elizabeth Warren says about border agents who mistreat immigrants Attachments: TEXT.htm, Mime.822 If you're having trouble reading this click here. The Daily 202 Share: Listen to The Big Idea Lock them up, Elizabeth Warren says about border agents who mistreat immigrants Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) speaks at a town hall in Peterborough, M., last week. (Charles Krupa/AP) BYE HOHMANN THE BIG IDEA: PHILADELPHIA - This weekend at Netroots Nation, the largest annual gathering of liberal activists, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) called upon Pennsylvania's Democratic governor to do everything he can to close a nearby federal detention center for immigration Page 17934 EFTA00047445
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families. "Shut it down," she said. "Shut. It. Down." Former housing secretary Julian Castro said President Trump traffics in cruelty. "Instead of breaking up families, we should break apart ICE," he said, referring to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee criticized fellow presidential candidates who have not called for ending the Senate filibuster because he said that's the only way to save the "dreamers." But the biggest cheers of the day, by far, came when Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) promised that, if she's elected, her Justice Department would bring criminal charges against government officials who are currently mistreating immigrants, either by not providing required medical care or physically abusing people in their custody. "Donald Trump may be willing to look the other way, but President Elizabeth Warren will not," she said, prompting a standing ovation from a crowd of about 3,700 in the convention center. The immigration issue animates the right and the left, and the presidential candidate forum at Netroots on Saturday afternoon turned into a contest of who could preach loudest to the choir. Dozens of attendees marched across downtown Philadelphia to occupy the lobby of Joe Biden's campaign headquarters to highlight deportations during the Obama administration. Page 17935 EFTA00047446
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Even Warren, a fan favorite, wasn't fully spared the ire of the far left after proposing an immigration plan that stopped short of advocating the full abolition of ICE. Instead, she wants to "reshape" the agency "from top to bottom." As the senator talked about mass incarceration, she was interrupted by hecklers who demanded that she commit to do something by the end of her first day in office to legalize the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants. Warren assured the protesters — who obscured the view of the cameras on the press riser with a large banner before being escorted out — that she is with them. Then she explained that she would create a Justice Department task force to investigate all accusations of potential criminal misconduct by border agents. She said she will give this task force independent authority to pursue any substantiated criminal allegations. "This is our moment to live our values," she said. -- The fact that Warren's advocacy for locking up government agents who break the law got such a raucous response compared with her calls for expanding legal immigration, building a pathway to citizenship and reuniting families speaks volumes about the mood of the Democratic base right now. Seeking catharsis for their boiling anger, many on the left seem hungry to lock people up. On Sunday, perhaps emboldened by the standing ovation, Warren sent an email to her fundraising list that said she will direct the Justice Page 17936 EFTA00047447
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Department to "hold perpetrators accountable" for "the Trump administration's criminal abuses at the border." The resonance of Warren's push for criminal charges illustrates why both she and her style of pitchfork populism are ascending in the Democratic nominating contest. Indeed, this is not the first issue Warren has found success on by calling for incarcerating people she portrays as villains. She routinely complains that Wall Street bigwigs were not jailed after the 2008 financial crisis, even when that requires criticizing Barack Obama, and she rolled out aplan in April that would make it much easier to prosecute individual executives for corporate wrongdoing. In May, she promised that she would appoint people to the Justice Department who will overturn the long-standing policy that sitting presidents cannot be charged with federal crimes. "If Donald Trump were anyone other than the President of the United States right now, he would be in handcuffs and indicted," Warren wrote in a blog post on Medium, two days after Bob Mueller cited the policy during a news conference as he explained his report. "Congress should make it clear that Presidents can be indicted for criminal activity, including obstruction of justice. And when I'm President, I'll appoint Justice Department officials who will reverse flawed policies so no President is shielded from criminal accountability." 'No humanity': ICE raids, detention facilities spark debate -- The hyper-politicization of the Justice Department is Page 17937 EFTA00047448
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one of the many norms that have eroded since Trump called for Hillary Clinton to be jailed repeatedly throughout the 2016 campaign. Chants of "Lock her up!" still break out at the president's rallies, more than two and a half years after the election. Politicians are responding to their bases. "I don't want to see him impeached, I want to see him in prison," Speaker Nancy Pelosi told House Democrats during a meeting last month, per Politico. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said "yes" when asked by NPR last month if she would want her Justice Department to prosecute Trump for obstruction of justice. "I believe that they would have no choice and that they should," said Harris, a former state attorney general. "There has to be accountability. The president is not above the law. ... I've seen prosecution of cases on much less evidence." Pete Buttigieg was asked the same question by the Atlantic: "To the extent that there's an obstruction case, then yes, DOJ's got to deal with it," said the mayor of South Bend, Ind. "I would want any credible allegation of criminal behavior to be investigated to the fullest." Former congressman Beto O'Rourke told ABC's "This Week" that he believes Trump committed crimes that could be prosecuted. "I would want my Justice npnartmPnt any fi iti irP ariminictratinn'c IctirP nPnartmPnt Page 17938 EFTA00047449
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to follow the facts and the truth and to make sure, at the end of the day, that there is accountability and justice," said the Texan. In stark contrast to this rhetoric, Barack Obama rejected clamoring from his left flank to prosecute members of the George W. Bush administration related to their conduct during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "We need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards," Obama s_aid as president-elect in 2009. -- Compared with this crop of candidates, Obama seems exceedingly cautious on a host of issues, including immigration. As president, he rejected calls to give federal health subsidies to undocumented immigrants. But all 10 candidates onstage for the second night of last month's first debate raised their hands when asked if they favor offering health insurance to undocumented immigrants, though some later clarified that they didn't support offering full coverage. Nine of the 10 raised their hands to say they backed Castro's plan to treat border crossings as a civil offense rather than a crime. "I wouldn't be truthful if I said I was not concerned," said Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-N.J.), who won in 2018 in a conservative district that Trump carried. "That's another way of saying we're going to just have open borders," he told Matt Viser. "That's not good for the country. We can't have endless people coming in. I do believe we need borders, and the border even needs to have Page 17939 EFTA00047450
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physical structure." Castro has been ripping Biden for the past two weeks after the former vice president told CNN that he opposes decriminalizing border crossings. "I saw that Vice President Biden said that he does not want to repeal Section 1325 of the Immigration and Nationality Act," Castro said in Milwaukee last Thursday. "It is clear that between him and me, one of us has learned the lessons of the past and the other hasn't." -- My colleague Dave Weigel, who was also at Netroots, followed the attendees who marched to Biden's HQ. "Members of Movimiento Cosecha occupied the lobby, some of them standing behind a banner (BIDEN: WE HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN 3 MILLION DEPORTATIONS) and some speaking through a bullhorn," Weigel reports. "'We can't forget Obama's legacy,' said Florida-based immigrant rights activist Catalina Santiago, who was born in Mexico. 'He promised the immigrant community papers, an ability to have a dignified life. Yet eight years later, he deported 3 million people, and Biden was complicit in that.' ... Santiago received protections under the Obama administration's DACA program for some young undocumented immigrants, but he was fixated on what they hadn't gotten. Biden attended Netroots only once, in 2014, when he was interrupted by protesters furious at the administration's deportation policy — a policy designed to set up an immigration restructuring compromise that never happened." Page 17940 EFTA00047451
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Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) listen during a House Oversight and Reform Committee meeting in February. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) -- Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), one of the four lawmakers attacked by Trump on Sunday, said during a panel at Netroots that she and other liberals who recently visited immigrant detention facilities in Texas encountered hostility and resistance from Customs and Border Protection officers. She sought to diagnose why some of the hostility came from people of color. "It's not that people are averse to change. They are resistant to loss," Pressley said on Saturday. "People were angry at us because we were taking away their neighbor's jobs with our calls to abolish ICE and to not want to continue to feed a system that criminalizes people for doing something that is a legal and human right, and that is to seek asylum. So, disproportionately, black and brown people, because you don't even need a high school diploma to be a CBP officer, their only pathway to the middle class is to work for CBP. And they are now a part of this larger machine — a cog — in the oppression and incarceration of people who look just like them." -- Meanwhile, an armed man was fatally shot Saturday after throwing what authorities called "incendiary devices" at an immigration detention center in Washington state and trying to set a commercial-size propane tank on fire, according to Tacoma police. Page 17941 EFTA00047452
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"About 4 a.m., 69-year-old Willem Van Spronsen threw lit objects' at buildings and at cars in a parking lot, police said, causing a vehicle to go up in flames," Hannah Knowles reports. "Court records show the man was arrested last year at a protest at the same detention center. He pleaded guilty to obstructing a law enforcement officer, court records show." The Northwest Detention Center on the Tacoma Tideflats is owned and operated for ICE by a private company called the GEO Group. The company said in a statement that it is concerned that "outrageous and baseless accusations that have been leveled against our facilities have led to misplaced aggression and a dangerous environment for our employees." "Contrary to the images of other facilities on the news, our facilities have never been overcrowded, nor have they ever housed unaccompanied minors," said GEO spokesman Pablo Paez. No ICE employees or detainees were hurt. The agency called the man an "anti-immigration-enforcement protester": "This could have resulted in the mass murder of staff and detainees housed at the facility had he been successful at setting the tank ablaze," said Shawn Fallah, who heads the ICE Office of Professional Responsibility. "These are the kinds of incidents that keep you up at night." Deb Bartley, who said she was a longtime friend of Van Spronsen's, told the Seattle Times she believes he intended to die by attacking the detention center: "He Page 17942 EFTA00047453
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was ready to end it. I think this was a suicide. But then he was able to kind of do it in a way that spoke to his political beliefs." CONTENT FROM RETIREMENT SECURITY COALITION Multiemployer pensions are in crisis. Congress must act. Americans' retirements are at risk. Congress must come together to protect multiemployer pensions for our families, friends and neighbors. Learn more from the Retirement Security Coalition. Migrant mother testifies about daughter's death in ICE custody -- The nationwide immigration raids that Trump said would begin Sunday failed to materialize on the streets of major U.S. cities, even as his statement cast a cloud of fear that kept many families indoors. Abigail Hauslohner and Nick Miroff report: "Immigration enforcement authorities said their plans to track down migrants with deportation orders would continue, but their operations over the weekend appeared more akin to routine actions rather than the mass roundups the president promised. Immigrants and advocates had been bracing for the arrests, which Trump last warned of on Friday, saying he wanted agents `to take people out and take them back to their countries.' But federal law enforcement officials said +1-1,-,/ ,Air -sr- rind +h(,+ dicsnlr,c.e ern of +he-, rd,r-t Page 17943 EFTA00047454
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LI IGy VVUI I IGA4 LI ICIL LI IG UI IUOUQI IJULAIld UlOUIUOUI UI LI IG F.JIQI I endangered officers and threatened their effectiveness. "Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva went on television to say `unequivocally' that his department would not cooperate with ICE, and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms urged undocumented immigrants to stay in their homes Sunday. ... Chicago Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot on Friday terminated ICE's access to Chicago Police Department databases and increased the city's Legal Protection Fund by $250,000 to support legal aid to immigrants. ... New York City officials said Saturday night that ICE agents were spotted conducting 'enforcement operations' in two neighborhoods but that no arrests were made after residents declined to answer their doors. ... 'All quiet in Houston,' Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said Sunday. 'I expect ICE will conduct routine removal operations during the week." -- The Trump administration moved this morning to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants in a major escalation of the president's battle to tamp down the number of people crossing the U.S.- Mexico border. The Associated Press reports: "According to a new rule published in the Federal Register, asylum seekers who pass through another country first will be ineligible for asylum at the U.S. southern border. The rule, expected to go into effect on Tuesday, also applies to children who have crossed the border alone. There are some exceptions ... But the move was meant to essentially Pnrl aqui' im nrntpntinnc pc thpv nnw grin nn thp cni ithprn Page 17944 EFTA00047455
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',AS, • • ....•••••••••••./. SO ',AS, • • Sr, 0 %A •••••••• 1,01 . border. The policy is almost certain to face a legal challenge." -- More on the immigration wars: • Maria Sacchetti: "Former Southwest Key leader who ran migrant child shelters for U.S. government earned $3.6 million in 2017." • Politico: "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services acting Director Ken Cuccinelli refused to say Sunday whether children caught up in deportation raids would be separated from their parents." • The Post's Editorial Board: "Trump's planned deportations are mainly for show. That's all." • Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot op-ed for The Post: "Why Chicago police will not assist ICE in its raids." • The Rev. Randall Keeney, the vicar at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Greensboro, N.C.: "Want to provide sanctuary to an undocumented person? This is what it takes." • ProPublica: "Border Patrol Agents Are Passing Around A Commemorative Coin Mocking Care for Migrant Kids. The coin declares `KEEP THE CARAVANS COMING' under an image of a parade of migrants crossing the border." • The Intercept: "Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost was a member of the secret Facebook group." • Adweek: "Ogilvy Leadership Confronts Staff Concerns Over Customs and Border Protection Contract. Chairman John Seifert addresses work for client in Page 17945 EFTA00047456
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internal email." -- Sebastian Smee encourages D.C.-area readers to go check out a new exhibition about migration and the global refugee crisis at the Phillips Collection. Our in- house art critic says "The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement" restores good faith — along with nuance, the perspective of history and human feeling — to a subject more often today used cynically, so that people with heart-rending stories are reduced to hollow numbers. Subscribe on Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod and other podcast players. Welcome to the Daily 202, PowerPost's morning briefing for decision-makers. Sign up to receive the newsletter. 'Just a big old mess': Along the Louisiana coast, cleaning up after Barry GET SMART FAST: 1. Barry, a storm that briefly became the first hurricane of the season, delivered torrential rain to Louisiana and Mississippi on Sunday as it migrated at a lazy pace northward toward Arkansas. This has been a big, soggy tropical storm, Page 17946 EFTA00047457
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UUL IL Ul lUel per lUI f I leU rIIUSt I Uf UC;C:161.5. INUW Vr redIIS, Baton Rouge and other waterlogged communities seem to have dodged the kind of full-blown natural disaster that seemed possible just a few days earlier. (M Ashley Cusick, Mark Berman and Joel_Achenbach) 2. Investigators in Louisiana worked through the weekend, despite the storm, to determine how the founder of the Baton Rouge African American history museum founder ended up dead in the trunk of a car. Sadie Roberts, 75, was discovered in the trunk of a car Friday afternoon about three miles from her home. An autopsy is scheduled for today. (The_Advocate) 3. Airlines are planning for the possibility that Boeing's beleaguered 737 Max commercial jetliners will remain out of commission late into the fall, as the company works to fix a host of technical problems that have rendered the planes grounded since early March. The three U.S. airlines that operate Max jets — American Airlines, United and Southwest — announced in recent days they will cancel 737 Max flights through Nov. 2, Nov. 3 and Oct. 1, respectively, affecting hundreds of flights every day. (Aaron Gregg and Douglas MacMillan) 4. India called off its much-awaited second lunar mission an hour before the scheduled launch, citing a "technical snag," in a setback for the country's growing ambitions in space. (Niha Masih) 5. China's economy decelerated to its slowest growth rate in 27 years, partly because of a slump in Page 17947 EFTA00047458
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exports. The data is likely to bolster Trump's belief that his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, is under pressure to strike a trade deal to shore up the world's second- largest economy. (Anna Fifield) 6. Protests in Hong Kong expanded in terms of geographical reach and demands as thousands of people marched in the streets of a populous suburb, calling not just for the complete withdrawal of a bill allowing extradition to China but also the right to vote for their leaders. Violent clashes broke out between riot police and a small group of protesters. Police said that more than 40 people were arrested, and Hong Kong's hospital authority said 22 people were injured. (Shibani Mahtani) 7. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's cost-cutting spree is generating chaos and leading to political backlash. In just 71/2 months, the leftist president has achieved the kind of cost-cutting revolution that conservatives in Washington can only dream of. Thousands of federal jobs have been eliminated, and overseas travel has been slashed. But what started as a popular attack on official privilege has led to judges rebelling over salary cuts, public hospitals canceling surgeries and forest fires blazing out of control because of a lack of firefighters. (Mary Beth Sheridan) 8. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he granted a visa to Iran's foreign minister to visit New York primarily to meet U.S. obligations to the United & - AL! I- - info • •II 3- Page 17948 EFTA00047459
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Nations, DUI the omciai s movements will pe sharply curtailed. Pompeo said in a telephone interview last night that Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his delegation will be permitted to travel between U.N. headquarters and the Iranian mission six blocks away, and to the residence of Iran's U.N. ambassador nearby. The group arrived in New York on Sunday morning. (Carol Morello) 9. Britain said it will work for the release of an Iranian supertanker seized near Gibraltar if Iran guarantees the ship will not travel to Syria in breach of European Union sanctions. British foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt said he held a "constructive call" with Zarif. (Erin Cunningham) 10. The Congolese health ministry confirmed an Ebola case in Goma, the first time the virus has reached the city of more than 2 million people since the epidemic began nearly a year ago. (Stat) 11. Jeffrey Epstein's arrest is reverberating in Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing Likud party are calling for a criminal probe into former prime minister Ehud Barak's personal and business ties with the accused sex trafficker. (Miami Herald) 12. Novak Djokovic beat Roger Federer in a marathon fifth set to win his second straight Wimbledon title. (Liz Clarke an_d Ava Wallace) 'HP knnwc hPttPr'• Tnimn twPpt tarnPtinn minnritv lihPral r.nrvirPswnmen nrnmntc Page 17949 EFTA00047460
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outcry RACE IN AMERICA: -- Trump tweeted Sunday morning that four minority, liberal congresswomen who have been critical of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) should "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came." Felicia Sonmez and Mike DeBonis report: "Trump's remark swiftly united a House Democratic caucus that had been torn apart in recent days by infighting between Pelosi and the four freshman women of color — Pressley (Mass.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) and Ilhan Omar (Minn.). Pressley was born in Cincinnati, Tlaib was born in Detroit and Ocasio-Cortez was born in New York — about 20 miles from where Trump was born. Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia; her family fled the country amid civil war when she was a child, and she became a U.S. citizen as a teenager. All four women won election to Congress in 2018. "By Sunday evening, at least 90 House Democrats [plus independent Justin Amash (Mich.)], had denounced Trump's remarks, with more than half of them using the words `racist' or `racism' to describe his tweets. Some Democrats went even further. `This is white nationalism,' said Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), who is running for president. Republican lawmakers, meanwhile, stayed largely silent." -- "Trump fans the flame of a racial fire," Peter Baker Page 17950 EFTA00047461
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writes on the front page of today's New York Times. "Trump woke up on Sunday morning, gazed out at the nation he leads, saw the dry kindling of race relations and decided to throw a match on it. It was not the first time, nor is it likely to be the last. He has a pretty large carton of matches and a ready supply of kerosene." -- Conservative blogger John Hinderaker calls this "the single stupidest act of Trump's presidency." Beto O'Rourke, who supports reparations, revealed last night that both he and his wife recently learned that his ancestors owned slaves. "O'Rourke's revelation, which was sparked by the Guardian's investigation into his roots, comes as reparations have emerged as a litmus test for Democrats seeking the White House," ■ Elfrink reports. "Last week, reports that ancestors of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) owned slaves raised questions about whether those historical crimes are relevant for politicians weighing the issue today. McConnell, who opposes reparations, has denied that his family's legacy should impact his stance, noting that tracing the history of slaveholding is complex enough that even former president Barack Obama had forebears who owned slaves. But to O'Rourke, learning of his own familial ties to human bondage crystallized the benefits slave trading bestowed on his clan — and the need to correct those lasting effects today." "I benefit from a system that my ancestors built to favor 4.1-tese‘ne.esIs +In " CVO,. • neewl.es es•-• Page 17951 EFTA00047462