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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 — 
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The Daily 202: Lock them up, Elizabeth Warren says about border agents who mistreat 
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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 
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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. 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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." 
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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. 
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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 
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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." 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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. 
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'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, 
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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 
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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 
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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. 
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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 
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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." 
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