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"content": "\u003cp>On one side of Farhad Besharati's elegant living room is an inviting sitting area. There's food on the coffee table, surrounded by ornate couches and a fully mirrored wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the room is Besharati's newly implemented home office. What was once a dining room table now holds a Mac computer, pens and a printer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Farhad Besharati, Iranian American business owner']'Twenty years I was in that office. Now I work from home. I used to have seven or eight employees, and no one now.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the location of ATT Vacation, a travel agency catering to Iranian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up until a few months ago, Besharati hosted clients in his office in Persian Square, a strip in the Tehrangeles neighborhood of Los Angeles that has many Iranian American-owned businesses. But after President Trump enacted the travel ban in 2017, barring visas for citizens of five Muslim-majority countries, including Iran, and amid recent threats of a strike against Iran from the White House, he says he has seen a steep drop-off in business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Twenty years I was in that office. Now I work from home,\" Besharati says. \"I used to have seven or eight employees, and no one now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/travelagent1-5873225a838d3e2e8eaf804a22a1802ebca0057a-e1562355277965.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11759231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/travelagent1-5873225a838d3e2e8eaf804a22a1802ebca0057a-e1562355277965.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Los Angeles neighborhood of Tehrangeles (a portmanteau of Tehran, Iran's capital, and Los Angeles), business owners like Besharati say they are suffering the effects of the travel ban, sanctions and increasing White House threats of war against Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/ooh/sales/travel-agents.htm#tab-1\">business of travel agents is declining \u003c/a>as people book trips online, Besharati says, in his case it's not about the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The problem is political. My niche market is Iran,\" Besharati says. \"I still have my loyal customers that are older than 50 years old, but they don't feel going to Iran is safe now. That's why they're not going.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11759247\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/attvacation-8add11106ff29e0799b62e45f828ce3ef5b46f3a-s800-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11759247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/attvacation-8add11106ff29e0799b62e45f828ce3ef5b46f3a-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/attvacation-8add11106ff29e0799b62e45f828ce3ef5b46f3a-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/attvacation-8add11106ff29e0799b62e45f828ce3ef5b46f3a-s800-c85-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/attvacation-8add11106ff29e0799b62e45f828ce3ef5b46f3a-s800-c85-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/attvacation-8add11106ff29e0799b62e45f828ce3ef5b46f3a-s800-c85-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In April, Besharati's travel agency moved out of its office in the Tehrangeles neighborhood of Los Angeles after being there for some 20 years. \u003ccite>(Claire Heddles/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Iran had a 7% drop in international tourist arrivals between 2015 to 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ST.INT.ARVL?end=2017&locations=IR&start=2015\">according to data from the World Bank\u003c/a>. When Trump signed the executive order in January 2017, Besharati says, he spent $200,000 on refunds for customers who had booked trips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of Besharati's clients are U.S. citizens, permanent residents or green card holders who go to Iran to visit family. He says that after Trump's executive order enacting the travel ban, they were concerned about getting back into the U.S. if they travel to Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration says the ban is needed for national security, arguing that countries have not cooperated with the U.S. in vetting travelers. But critics say the ban \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/01/31/512592783/trump-advisers-have-made-anti-muslim-comments-in-the-past\">stems from anti-Muslim views\u003c/a> and unfairly targets people from Muslim-majority countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, as threats of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/20/734278683/iran-shoots-down-u-s-spy-drone-it-says-was-in-its-airspace\">war with Iran filled the headlines\u003c/a>, Besharati says, nine more clients asked for refunds on their tickets to Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are afraid,\" Besharati says. \"They think maybe the next day they will start war.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Jafari, 51, was one of Besharati's longtime clients. He went to the travel agency in Persian Square to book his parents' annual trip to Iran to visit relatives. But months after Trump issued the ban in 2017, he canceled their trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='forum_2010101871805,news_11756413,forum_2010101871700' label='More on US-Iran Tensions']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I decided it wasn't safe. It seemed like things were changing day by day.\" Jafari says. \"I didn't want them to go, and then have things change around, and they couldn't come back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-enhancing-vetting-capabilities-processes-detecting-attempted-entry-united-states-terrorists-public-safety-threats/\">newest version of the executive order\u003c/a>, upheld by the Supreme Court in June 2018, makes an exemption for dual nationals, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/03/513306413/state-department-says-fewer-than-60-000-visas-revoked-under-travel-order\">widespread news of travelers detained in airports\u003c/a> led Jafari to cancel his parents' trip. They haven't visited Iran since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty percent of the almost half a million Iranians in the U.S. live in Southern California like Jafari, according to the Census Bureau. He says he visits Persian Square not just to book trips to Iran for his parents but also for the food. Surrounding the now-shuttered travel agency are Persian bookstores, restaurants, cafes and specialty stores. And Besharati's travel agency wasn't the only store on the block affected in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alex Helmi owns a Persian rug store in the area. He sponsored the initiative to name this strip of Tehrangeles Persian Square. He, too, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/25/735638010/trump-hits-iran-with-new-sanctions-how-will-they-impact-iranians?preview=\">felt the effect of rising tensions\u003c/a> between the U.S. and Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11759248\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11759248\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helmi's rugs range from $1,000 up to $500,000, but his inventory is shrinking and he's unable to refill it because of the sanctions against Iran \u003ccite>(Claire Heddles/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His store, Damoka, stands out on Westwood Boulevard. It has giant windows that read \"Retirement Sale\" in front of an impressive display of intricately made rugs. His family has been in the carpet business for three generations. Classical music plays throughout the store as Helmi tells the stories of the centuries-old rugs on the walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the store's height, Helmi had a small factory in Iran where craftsmen would spend years on a single rug made by hand-tying thousands of tiny knots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He closed his workshop amid economic sanctions and rising inflation. The exchange rate for the Iranian currency, the rial, is 42,000 to the dollar compared with just 8,000 a decade ago, according to the Treasury Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I couldn't import anymore,\" Helmi says. \"So I told the workers I cannot support them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says his store has been affected by economic battle with Iran for almost a decade. A 2010 embargo prevented him from importing carpets. When it was lifted in 2015, he could finally restock his store. But Trump's withdrawal just a few years later, as well as the ensuing sanctions, put him back in the same position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For high-end rugs, Helmi's business is still thriving from his extensive antique collection. But he plans to retire soon, both because his children aren't interested in carrying on the business and because he's unable to restock his inventory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's so many things like the travel ban. I don't know how it's going to end up,\" Helmi says. \"Every day it's getting worse and worse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the location of ATT Vacation, a travel agency catering to Iranian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up until a few months ago, Besharati hosted clients in his office in Persian Square, a strip in the Tehrangeles neighborhood of Los Angeles that has many Iranian American-owned businesses. But after President Trump enacted the travel ban in 2017, barring visas for citizens of five Muslim-majority countries, including Iran, and amid recent threats of a strike against Iran from the White House, he says he has seen a steep drop-off in business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Twenty years I was in that office. Now I work from home,\" Besharati says. \"I used to have seven or eight employees, and no one now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/travelagent1-5873225a838d3e2e8eaf804a22a1802ebca0057a-e1562355277965.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11759231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/travelagent1-5873225a838d3e2e8eaf804a22a1802ebca0057a-e1562355277965.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Los Angeles neighborhood of Tehrangeles (a portmanteau of Tehran, Iran's capital, and Los Angeles), business owners like Besharati say they are suffering the effects of the travel ban, sanctions and increasing White House threats of war against Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/ooh/sales/travel-agents.htm#tab-1\">business of travel agents is declining \u003c/a>as people book trips online, Besharati says, in his case it's not about the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The problem is political. My niche market is Iran,\" Besharati says. \"I still have my loyal customers that are older than 50 years old, but they don't feel going to Iran is safe now. That's why they're not going.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11759247\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/attvacation-8add11106ff29e0799b62e45f828ce3ef5b46f3a-s800-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11759247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/attvacation-8add11106ff29e0799b62e45f828ce3ef5b46f3a-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/attvacation-8add11106ff29e0799b62e45f828ce3ef5b46f3a-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/attvacation-8add11106ff29e0799b62e45f828ce3ef5b46f3a-s800-c85-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/attvacation-8add11106ff29e0799b62e45f828ce3ef5b46f3a-s800-c85-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/attvacation-8add11106ff29e0799b62e45f828ce3ef5b46f3a-s800-c85-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In April, Besharati's travel agency moved out of its office in the Tehrangeles neighborhood of Los Angeles after being there for some 20 years. \u003ccite>(Claire Heddles/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Iran had a 7% drop in international tourist arrivals between 2015 to 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ST.INT.ARVL?end=2017&locations=IR&start=2015\">according to data from the World Bank\u003c/a>. When Trump signed the executive order in January 2017, Besharati says, he spent $200,000 on refunds for customers who had booked trips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of Besharati's clients are U.S. citizens, permanent residents or green card holders who go to Iran to visit family. He says that after Trump's executive order enacting the travel ban, they were concerned about getting back into the U.S. if they travel to Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration says the ban is needed for national security, arguing that countries have not cooperated with the U.S. in vetting travelers. But critics say the ban \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/01/31/512592783/trump-advisers-have-made-anti-muslim-comments-in-the-past\">stems from anti-Muslim views\u003c/a> and unfairly targets people from Muslim-majority countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I decided it wasn't safe. It seemed like things were changing day by day.\" Jafari says. \"I didn't want them to go, and then have things change around, and they couldn't come back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-enhancing-vetting-capabilities-processes-detecting-attempted-entry-united-states-terrorists-public-safety-threats/\">newest version of the executive order\u003c/a>, upheld by the Supreme Court in June 2018, makes an exemption for dual nationals, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/03/513306413/state-department-says-fewer-than-60-000-visas-revoked-under-travel-order\">widespread news of travelers detained in airports\u003c/a> led Jafari to cancel his parents' trip. They haven't visited Iran since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty percent of the almost half a million Iranians in the U.S. live in Southern California like Jafari, according to the Census Bureau. He says he visits Persian Square not just to book trips to Iran for his parents but also for the food. Surrounding the now-shuttered travel agency are Persian bookstores, restaurants, cafes and specialty stores. And Besharati's travel agency wasn't the only store on the block affected in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alex Helmi owns a Persian rug store in the area. He sponsored the initiative to name this strip of Tehrangeles Persian Square. He, too, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/25/735638010/trump-hits-iran-with-new-sanctions-how-will-they-impact-iranians?preview=\">felt the effect of rising tensions\u003c/a> between the U.S. and Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11759248\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11759248\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helmi's rugs range from $1,000 up to $500,000, but his inventory is shrinking and he's unable to refill it because of the sanctions against Iran \u003ccite>(Claire Heddles/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His store, Damoka, stands out on Westwood Boulevard. It has giant windows that read \"Retirement Sale\" in front of an impressive display of intricately made rugs. His family has been in the carpet business for three generations. Classical music plays throughout the store as Helmi tells the stories of the centuries-old rugs on the walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the store's height, Helmi had a small factory in Iran where craftsmen would spend years on a single rug made by hand-tying thousands of tiny knots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He closed his workshop amid economic sanctions and rising inflation. The exchange rate for the Iranian currency, the rial, is 42,000 to the dollar compared with just 8,000 a decade ago, according to the Treasury Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I couldn't import anymore,\" Helmi says. \"So I told the workers I cannot support them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says his store has been affected by economic battle with Iran for almost a decade. A 2010 embargo prevented him from importing carpets. When it was lifted in 2015, he could finally restock his store. But Trump's withdrawal just a few years later, as well as the ensuing sanctions, put him back in the same position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For high-end rugs, Helmi's business is still thriving from his extensive antique collection. But he plans to retire soon, both because his children aren't interested in carrying on the business and because he's unable to restock his inventory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's so many things like the travel ban. I don't know how it's going to end up,\" Helmi says. \"Every day it's getting worse and worse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>American taxpayers are looking at a bigger bill for this year's Independence Day party in the nation's capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For this Fourth of July, President Trump has added an address from the Lincoln Memorial, tanks stationed in the area, an extended fireworks display and military aircraft flyovers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats in Congress are complaining about the added expenses and politicization of the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's just cheapening and weaponizing patriotism in a way that I hope a lot of Americans find deeply disturbing,\" Rep. Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) told KQED News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The annual July 4 parade will be followed by a 6:30 p.m. Trump address from the Lincoln Memorial with military flyovers and performances by the Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps and others. That evening, the Capitol Fourth concert, also a trademark of the usual D.C. holiday, will be followed by an extended fireworks show lasting 35 to 40 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Rep. Jared Huffman D-San Rafael']'He's just cheapening and weaponizing patriotism in a way that I hope a lot of Americans find deeply disturbing.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's going to be a big price tag for this and the taxpayers will have to pick up the tab,\" said Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which directs spending for such events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Hollen and other Democratic appropriators on Capitol Hill have raised questions and concerns for months that spending for the day could go haywire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-gives-tickets-to-trumps-july-fourth-extravaganza-to-gop-donors/2019/07/02/9109a566-9ce0-11e9-b27f-ed2942f73d70_story.html?utm_term=.fc6e1c9ff642\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post reported\u003c/a> Tuesday the National Park Service will redirect almost $2.5 million in entrance and recreation fees allocated for park improvement to cover costs for Trump's plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you take something funded by the Park Service ... you know to aggrandize Donald Trump, and then hand out tickets to his big Republican donors, it's grotesque,\" said Huffman, who sits on the House Committee on Natural Resources that oversees the National Park Service. \"It is a spectacle, a partisan spectacle.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I hope that somewhere in the endless stream of these outrages, the sensibilities of this country turn more strongly against this man and what he's trying to do,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just before the big event, Democratic appropriators still don't know how much it will all cost in total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Congress Waiting on Total Costs. Experts Say it's Not Cheap\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We haven't heard anything,\" said New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall, ranking Democrat for the Senate Appropriations Committee panel on interior and related agencies. \"It's disturbing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Aviation Administration said it would \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FAANews/status/1146079484807909376\">suspend operations at Reagan National Airport for 1.5 hours\u003c/a> for Trump's speech and flyovers. The aerial program will feature the jetliner used for Air Force One and aircraft representing all five military services, including the Navy's Blue Angels, said Jeffrey Reinbold, a superintendent of the National Park Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A military official told NPR it could also include F-35s and F-18s. And there will be military tanks parked along the National Mall, Trump said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump said there would be \"the brand new Sherman tanks and we have the brand new Abram tanks.\" However, production of Sherman tanks ended in the 1940s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're gonna have a great Fourth of July in Washington, D.C. It'll be like no other, it'll be special and I hope a lot of people come and it's going to be about this country and it's a salute to America,\" Trump said from the Oval Office Monday. \"I'm going to be here and I'm going to say a few words, and we're going to have planes going overhead, the best fighter jets in the world and other planes too. And we're gonna have some tanks stationed outside.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR's multiple requests for costs related to the plans, as well as more extensive details on the additional military personnel, equipment and security for the day from the Interior Department, National Park Service, U.S. Secret Service, the Pentagon and the five military services went unanswered. A military official said the White House was not approving Pentagon requests to share such details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It won't be cheap, experts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758945\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153544455.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11758945 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153544455.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153544455.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153544455-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153544455-800x470.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153544455-1020x599.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preparations are made for the \"Salute to America\" Fourth of July event with President Trump at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., July 3, 2019, which will feature flyovers by the Blue Angels, an airplane used as Air Force One, military demonstrations and a speech by Trump. \u003ccite>(Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>University of Denver professor Andrew Sherbo, who tracks such figures, said the Boeing 747 used for Air Force One could come at a cost of $205,000 an hour (the jetliner is considered Air Force One only when the president is aboard).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost per flying hour for the F-35 can be $20,000 or more, according to Department of Defense comptroller figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Blue Angels could cost a more reasonable $6,000 per day, since air shows are tied to their training, said Sherbo, a former Pentagon official who now teaches finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Capitol Concerts portion of the program, plus the annual Memorial Day concert, is budgeted at $6.4 million from the National Park Service budget, which is under the Interior Department, said Annie Orloff, Udall's press secretary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Park Service needs that money for real things, real needs, the backlog of deferred maintenance. And the important mission at the Park Service has nothing to do with a military parade,\" Huffman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will be followed by a joint show put on by two fireworks companies, Phantom Fireworks and Fireworks by Grucci, that will launch from behind the Lincoln Memorial for a display lasting 15 to 20 minutes. As a result, they are donating an estimated $750,000 or more as part of the plans, said William Weimer, vice president of Phantom Fireworks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11721340,news_11391561,news_11286211' label='More on Trump and the NPS']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It will be a pretty overwhelming display,\" said Weimer. \"We saw an opportunity and approached the government in March to make the donation and try to give back to the country that has been so good to us. ... It's a privilege and an honor for us to do this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They will be followed by Garden State Fireworks, a mainstay of the annual D.C. program since 2013, which will put on a 20-minute show from a new location at West Potomac Park. It will come at a cost of more than $250,000, said Christopher Santore, a choreographer whose family founded the company in 1890.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Garden State's show was 17.5 minutes long, Santore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The celebration is funded by three pots of money: donations, the Interior Department and the Defense Department. This year, the Interior Department and Secretary David Bernhardt have been tasked with leading the expanded plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Cancian, a senior adviser with the Washington think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies, said since the Capitol's Fourth celebration is paid by three different sources of money, it's a hard tally to track down in a traditional year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add to that all the new elements for the presidential address and extended programming, and the costs become even fuzzier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a good question,\" Cancian said. \"It's difficult to answer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Udall, Van Hollen and others have pressed Bernhardt and his agency for answers. They have warned that taxpayer funds can't be used for a political rally and say Trump's plans appear to cross that line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758947\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153534326.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758947\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153534326.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153534326.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153534326-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153534326-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153534326-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of the Code Pink group poses in front a Bradley Fighting Vehicle ahead of the \"Salute to America\" Fourth of July event with President Trump at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on July 3, 2019. The event will feature flyovers by the Blue Angels, an airplane used as Air Force One, military demonstrations and a speech by Trump. \u003ccite>(Alastair Pike/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Special Access for VIP Section \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House is issuing special VIP tickets to access a new, restricted area at the steps to Trump's speech as well as halfway along the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A White House official said the area is being reserved for friends, family, Cabinet officials and possibly members of Congress. Military personnel, who are slated to perform, will also be in the ticketed area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, a Republican National Committee official confirmed it had received a \"small number of tickets\" to distribute for the special section. The official said it was similar to other customary moves under Democratic and Republican administrations to share tickets for Christmas open houses and garden tours at the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some Democrats were quick to disagree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Udall noted there are specific regulations that bar taxpayers from paying for a partisan event, and propaganda is prohibited. Trump's plans seem to veer into that \"very tricky area,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is unacceptable that the Interior Department is failing to inform Congress about how it plans to spend taxpayer money to fund the president's lavish July 4\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> plans, which reportedly include special access to the National Mall for the politically connected,\" Udall said in a statement Tuesday. \"The American people deserve to know how much of their money the president is spending to turn their July 4\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> celebration into a de facto campaign rally. All reports indicate that the president is planning to turn a national day of unity into a day of vanity – trying to use the military for political purposes and doling out perks to his political backers – at the taxpayers' expense. We need answers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall']'The American people deserve to know how much of their money the president is spending to turn their July 4th celebration into a de facto campaign rally.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a White House official countered that notion and said Trump's speech will focus on a unifying theme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The president has been very clear that he wants to help all Americans celebrate America. It's America's birthday and he wants to celebrate America, our flag and our great military, and the men and women who serve in it,\" the official said. \"This speech is not going to be political. 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So it is extremely unfair to the city to hold an unprecedented event and not at least choke up money to make it happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'It Will be Wild'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Trump attended the French celebration of Bastille Day in July 2017, he said one of his first calls was to replicate and \"try and top it.\" The plans, which were slated for Veterans Day weekend in November 2018, were scratched after word leaked of a $92 million price tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in February, Trump announced the plans to \"HOLD THE DATE\" on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1099651121088466946\">Twitter.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1099651121088466946\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will be having one of the biggest gatherings in the history of Washington, D.C., on July 4th,\" Trump tweeted Feb. 24. \"It will be called 'A Salute To America' and will be held at the Lincoln Memorial. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's going to be a big price tag for this and the taxpayers will have to pick up the tab,\" said Sen. 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Right: Giovanni, 44, his son, Jonathan, 8, and his twin daughters, Catherine and Carl,a were sent back under the program known as \"Remain in Mexico\" to await their immigration court dates. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration says the program will help restore a \"safe and orderly immigration process\" and prevent migrants from gaming the system by asking for asylum and then never turning up for court and disappearing in the interior of the United States. In June, the U.S. and Mexico announced plans to expand the program widely along their shared border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Remain in Mexico is drawing widespread criticism. Immigrant advocates, lawyers and former U.S. officials say the country is turning its back on asylum-seekers — vulnerable people who are allowed under U.S. law to seek sanctuary here. Instead, these migrants travel thousands of miles, only to get stopped on the doorstep of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758513\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-66-edit_custom-a04c22524e832f60c6ebdd8e607fc1a789d00d85-e1562014796513.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758513\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-66-edit_custom-a04c22524e832f60c6ebdd8e607fc1a789d00d85-e1562014796513.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Levy, an El Paso immigration attorney, speaks with a Guatemalan migrant named Genero at the Paso del Norte International Bridge. In practice, lawyers say, few migrants in Juarez have access to legal counsel.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The union that represents U.S. asylum officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/27/736461700/asylum-officers-trumps-remain-in-mexico-policy-is-against-moral-fabric-of-u-s\">filed a brief in federal court last week \u003c/a>as part of a lawsuit seeking to block the program, arguing it is \"fundamentally contrary to the moral fabric of our nation.\" In a separate brief, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, among others, argued the program runs afoul of international commitments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Remain in Mexico program in El Paso is one of the largest in the nation. And it offers a case study in how the program is working: Many migrants are confused about the legal process and fearful for their safety in dangerous Mexican border towns. Moreover, advocates and lawyers say more migrant families are being separated under the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just a complete farce,\" said Taylor Levy, an immigration lawyer in El Paso, noting that the Trump administration now calls the program Migrant Protection Protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have worked with asylum-seekers for 10 years,\" Levy said. \"I have never seen people as scared, who are just viscerally terrified while they're begging me, 'Please don't let me get sent back. Please don't let me get sent back.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asylum-seekers do not have a right to a court-appointed lawyer in immigration court. The administration says it provides migrants in the program with a list of legal service providers in the area that offer help at little or no expense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758520\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-22-edit_custom-5aa9a741acf28ed10026739648c148b42dc6d05a-1-e1562014854200.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758520\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-22-edit_custom-5aa9a741acf28ed10026739648c148b42dc6d05a-1-e1562014854200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exterior of El Buen Pastor, a shelter for migrants in Ciudad Juarez. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in reality, lawyers in El Paso said not enough nonprofit or pro bono lawyers are willing or able to take the time to trek back and forth across the international bridge where wait times can be several hours long. That leaves many migrants to navigate the process themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, advocates say, migrants have frequently become victims of crime in Juarez, including kidnappings and robberies. And migrants say they feel like they're targets because they stand out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758536\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-91-edit_custom-cea3ab274c19947674380af9c036b22d5a77e6cd-s500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758536\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-91-edit_custom-cea3ab274c19947674380af9c036b22d5a77e6cd-s500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-91-edit_custom-cea3ab274c19947674380af9c036b22d5a77e6cd-s500-c85.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-91-edit_custom-cea3ab274c19947674380af9c036b22d5a77e6cd-s500-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Serafin Aguilera Perez, 39, from Havana, Cuba, shows bruises on his face that he says he sustained after he was attacked by two people who tried to take money that his sister had wired to him. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We are all afraid when we go out,\" said a Cuban migrant named Serafin Aguilera Perez. He said he was returned to Juarez last month after spending more than 40 days in U.S. custody. His sister in Miami wired him money to help him find shelter and food in Juarez, he told NPR. But when he went to a convenience store, Aguilera said, he was jumped from behind by two attackers who knocked him down and tried to take his money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How could I feel safe?\" he said. \"Look how beat up I am.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The assailants didn't get the money, Aguilera said. But they left him with a black eye and visible scrapes on his chin and cheek. Aguilera said he wound up paying 7,000 pesos — more than $350 — to a hospital in Juarez that treated his injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the migrants in Juarez, who fled extreme poverty and violence in Central America, Cuba and Africa, say they feel trapped in the crowded migrant shelters run by churches in Juarez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't go anywhere because you don't know the area, and it's dangerous, too,\" said Jose Baires Chavez, a migrant from El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back home, Baires said, gangs tried to recruit him after he left the military. So he fled to the U.S. along with his son, Walter. But the two were returned to Juarez, and found their way to a migrant shelter in the city called El Buen Pastor. Now Baires said they're afraid to leave the shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758539\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-16-edit1_custom-404521363db28f19aae6ceda143d061bac65e3ba-s500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758539\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-16-edit1_custom-404521363db28f19aae6ceda143d061bac65e3ba-s500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-16-edit1_custom-404521363db28f19aae6ceda143d061bac65e3ba-s500-c85.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-16-edit1_custom-404521363db28f19aae6ceda143d061bac65e3ba-s500-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Baires Chavez and his son, Walter, at El Buen Pastor migrant shelter in Ciudad Juárez. They fled threats of violence in El Salvador and are waiting in Mexico for their U.S. asylum hearing, a process that could take months. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's like we're deprived of our freedom,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Never have we dealt with clients that are in so much danger,\" said Linda Rivas, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://las-americas.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center\u003c/a>. Rivas is one of the few lawyers in El Paso who is representing migrants in the program. She tells the story of a Honduran woman who asked for asylum and was put in this program. The woman told U.S. authorities she didn't feel safe in Juarez as a single woman, but she was sent back anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, Rivas said, the woman alleged she was kidnapped and raped by multiple attackers. When Rivas heard about the allegations, she said that she and other advocates escorted the woman to the international bridge and convinced authorities to let her wait in the U.S. for her day in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas said she's terrified for her other clients who remain in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're representing them, and you know they're going to be back in Juarez,\" Rivas said. \"And you don't know if something's going to happen to them while they're waiting for the court, or they're waiting for you to go out there and work on their asylum cases with them. Anything can happen. And it's happening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration said it will assess claims from migrants who say they fear returning to Mexico, and will exempt them if they are found to be \"more likely than not\" to face persecution or torture in Mexico. But in practice, advocates say, such exceptions are extremely rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocates and lawyers in El Paso are also concerned about families in the program being separated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration drew international condemnation when it routinely separated migrant parents from their children before abandoning the zero tolerance policy last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758533\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11758533 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Mexico's National Guard and Federal Police patrol the U.S.-Mexico border to prevent migrants from crossing from Ciudad Juárez. Residents and officials say they've never before seen a deployment of Mexican military forces on the northern border. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now lawyers say they have handled cases of families in which some members — sometimes the father and children older than 18 — are sent back to Mexico, while the mother and younger kids are allowed to stay in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers and advocates also say that families are separated when children come to the border with an adult who is not their parent or legal guardian, such as a grandparent, aunt or uncle, or older sibling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758538\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-34_custom-dabf810eb09af05c7af6d1306c6afed3212acc07-s500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758538\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-34_custom-dabf810eb09af05c7af6d1306c6afed3212acc07-s500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-34_custom-dabf810eb09af05c7af6d1306c6afed3212acc07-s500-c85.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-34_custom-dabf810eb09af05c7af6d1306c6afed3212acc07-s500-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Guatemalan woman holds her immigration documents at a migrant shelter in Ciudad Juárez. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While these relatives may have served as primary caretakers back in their home countries, authorities say they need legal proof of guardianship and that they're trying to ensure kids aren't being trafficked. This has been the policy in previous administrations, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But under Remain in Mexico, these relatives are separated indefinitely with no means of contacting the children, who are taken into U.S. custody and eventually sent to shelters operated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement before being placed with sponsors, often other family members, in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The government is not documenting these cases, is failing to provide ORR with critical information, and has no ability to track or reunify the families it is separating. This practice is traumatizing and endangering children,\" the \u003ca href=\"https://www.womensrefugeecommission.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women's Refugee Commission\u003c/a>, a nonprofit advocacy group, wrote in a report on Remain in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration said migrant children who arrive at the border alone, or who are separated from their families, will not be subject to Remain in Mexico. The program also excludes \"vulnerable populations\" on a case-by-case basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758537\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-29-edit_custom-3c586f3704657aef309e8981f8ee303003574ae7-s500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758537\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-29-edit_custom-3c586f3704657aef309e8981f8ee303003574ae7-s500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-29-edit_custom-3c586f3704657aef309e8981f8ee303003574ae7-s500-c85.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-29-edit_custom-3c586f3704657aef309e8981f8ee303003574ae7-s500-c85-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Valenzuela, a Mexican state immigration official, says Juárez is bracing for more migrants to arrive from the south — and to be returned from the United States. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the administration plans to grow the program. Mexico agreed to an expansion after President Trump threatened to impose tariffs unless that country did more to stem the flow of migrants coming north.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexico also agreed to dispatch its National Guard on that county's southern and northern borders. In Juarez, there's a highly visible military presence of Mexican National Guard and Army forces. Residents and officials say they haven't seen such a deployment on the northern border before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The armed soldiers say they're not there to arrest anyone. Instead, they are there to deter migrants crossing the border illegally and directing migrants to get on a waiting list to be able to cross at an official port of entry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Migrants are spending months on that list, often to be returned to Mexico after being processed by U.S. immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said Mexico's efforts to deter migration, along with the Remain in Mexico program, are having an impact. At a press conference on Friday, McAleenan said apprehensions at the border are expected to drop 25% percent in June compared to the previous month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, apprehensions in the El Paso-Juarez region remain high. The U.S. Border Patrol said last week that agents are taking into custody an average of about 800 people a day in the El Paso sector. That's down slightly from May, but still far above the number of apprehensions in the region six months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758534\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cuban migrants give each other a tearful hug after being returned to Ciudad Juárez under the Remain in Mexico program. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Enrique Valenzuela, a Mexican state immigration official, said Juarez is bracing for more migrants to arrive from the south — and to be returned from the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a situation that even though we did not cause locally, we have been coping locally,\" he said. \"We have been working to gather any kind of resources you can get a hold of.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">https://www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Fear%2C+Confusion+And+Separation+As+Trump+Administration+Sends+Migrants+Back+To+Mexico&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Several dozen Central American migrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border again, this time escorted by federal agents to an El Paso, Texas, courtroom, as part of an unprecedented effort by the Trump administration to control migration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One by one, the judge asked if the migrants had a lawyer during a hearing last week. Nearly all of them said, \"No.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not unusual. More than 6,000 migrants who came to the United States to ask for asylum have been sent back to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, just across the border from El Paso, to wait for their day in U.S. immigration court under the \"Remain in Mexico\" program. But only about 20 of them have lawyers, according to human rights groups and attorneys who work with the migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remain in Mexico is a key part of the Trump administration's plan to turn back a crush of migrants at the southern border, and it's a historic shift in how the asylum system works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758532\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/diptych_custom-b41df3689c86727838d66cfa460bbb37faaf5a1f-s1300-c85-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11758532 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/diptych_custom-b41df3689c86727838d66cfa460bbb37faaf5a1f-s1300-c85-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/diptych_custom-b41df3689c86727838d66cfa460bbb37faaf5a1f-s1300-c85-2.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/diptych_custom-b41df3689c86727838d66cfa460bbb37faaf5a1f-s1300-c85-2-160x53.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/diptych_custom-b41df3689c86727838d66cfa460bbb37faaf5a1f-s1300-c85-2-800x266.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/diptych_custom-b41df3689c86727838d66cfa460bbb37faaf5a1f-s1300-c85-2-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/diptych_custom-b41df3689c86727838d66cfa460bbb37faaf5a1f-s1300-c85-2-1200x400.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Belongings of asylum-seekers sit on a desk in a church shelter in Ciudad Juárez. Right: Giovanni, 44, his son, Jonathan, 8, and his twin daughters, Catherine and Carl,a were sent back under the program known as \"Remain in Mexico\" to await their immigration court dates. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration says the program will help restore a \"safe and orderly immigration process\" and prevent migrants from gaming the system by asking for asylum and then never turning up for court and disappearing in the interior of the United States. In June, the U.S. and Mexico announced plans to expand the program widely along their shared border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Remain in Mexico is drawing widespread criticism. Immigrant advocates, lawyers and former U.S. officials say the country is turning its back on asylum-seekers — vulnerable people who are allowed under U.S. law to seek sanctuary here. Instead, these migrants travel thousands of miles, only to get stopped on the doorstep of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758513\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-66-edit_custom-a04c22524e832f60c6ebdd8e607fc1a789d00d85-e1562014796513.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758513\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-66-edit_custom-a04c22524e832f60c6ebdd8e607fc1a789d00d85-e1562014796513.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Levy, an El Paso immigration attorney, speaks with a Guatemalan migrant named Genero at the Paso del Norte International Bridge. In practice, lawyers say, few migrants in Juarez have access to legal counsel.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The union that represents U.S. asylum officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/27/736461700/asylum-officers-trumps-remain-in-mexico-policy-is-against-moral-fabric-of-u-s\">filed a brief in federal court last week \u003c/a>as part of a lawsuit seeking to block the program, arguing it is \"fundamentally contrary to the moral fabric of our nation.\" In a separate brief, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, among others, argued the program runs afoul of international commitments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Remain in Mexico program in El Paso is one of the largest in the nation. And it offers a case study in how the program is working: Many migrants are confused about the legal process and fearful for their safety in dangerous Mexican border towns. Moreover, advocates and lawyers say more migrant families are being separated under the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just a complete farce,\" said Taylor Levy, an immigration lawyer in El Paso, noting that the Trump administration now calls the program Migrant Protection Protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have worked with asylum-seekers for 10 years,\" Levy said. \"I have never seen people as scared, who are just viscerally terrified while they're begging me, 'Please don't let me get sent back. Please don't let me get sent back.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asylum-seekers do not have a right to a court-appointed lawyer in immigration court. The administration says it provides migrants in the program with a list of legal service providers in the area that offer help at little or no expense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758520\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-22-edit_custom-5aa9a741acf28ed10026739648c148b42dc6d05a-1-e1562014854200.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758520\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-22-edit_custom-5aa9a741acf28ed10026739648c148b42dc6d05a-1-e1562014854200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exterior of El Buen Pastor, a shelter for migrants in Ciudad Juarez. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in reality, lawyers in El Paso said not enough nonprofit or pro bono lawyers are willing or able to take the time to trek back and forth across the international bridge where wait times can be several hours long. That leaves many migrants to navigate the process themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, advocates say, migrants have frequently become victims of crime in Juarez, including kidnappings and robberies. And migrants say they feel like they're targets because they stand out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758536\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-91-edit_custom-cea3ab274c19947674380af9c036b22d5a77e6cd-s500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758536\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-91-edit_custom-cea3ab274c19947674380af9c036b22d5a77e6cd-s500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-91-edit_custom-cea3ab274c19947674380af9c036b22d5a77e6cd-s500-c85.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-91-edit_custom-cea3ab274c19947674380af9c036b22d5a77e6cd-s500-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Serafin Aguilera Perez, 39, from Havana, Cuba, shows bruises on his face that he says he sustained after he was attacked by two people who tried to take money that his sister had wired to him. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We are all afraid when we go out,\" said a Cuban migrant named Serafin Aguilera Perez. He said he was returned to Juarez last month after spending more than 40 days in U.S. custody. His sister in Miami wired him money to help him find shelter and food in Juarez, he told NPR. But when he went to a convenience store, Aguilera said, he was jumped from behind by two attackers who knocked him down and tried to take his money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How could I feel safe?\" he said. \"Look how beat up I am.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The assailants didn't get the money, Aguilera said. But they left him with a black eye and visible scrapes on his chin and cheek. Aguilera said he wound up paying 7,000 pesos — more than $350 — to a hospital in Juarez that treated his injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the migrants in Juarez, who fled extreme poverty and violence in Central America, Cuba and Africa, say they feel trapped in the crowded migrant shelters run by churches in Juarez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't go anywhere because you don't know the area, and it's dangerous, too,\" said Jose Baires Chavez, a migrant from El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back home, Baires said, gangs tried to recruit him after he left the military. So he fled to the U.S. along with his son, Walter. But the two were returned to Juarez, and found their way to a migrant shelter in the city called El Buen Pastor. Now Baires said they're afraid to leave the shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758539\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-16-edit1_custom-404521363db28f19aae6ceda143d061bac65e3ba-s500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758539\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-16-edit1_custom-404521363db28f19aae6ceda143d061bac65e3ba-s500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-16-edit1_custom-404521363db28f19aae6ceda143d061bac65e3ba-s500-c85.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-16-edit1_custom-404521363db28f19aae6ceda143d061bac65e3ba-s500-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Baires Chavez and his son, Walter, at El Buen Pastor migrant shelter in Ciudad Juárez. They fled threats of violence in El Salvador and are waiting in Mexico for their U.S. asylum hearing, a process that could take months. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's like we're deprived of our freedom,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Never have we dealt with clients that are in so much danger,\" said Linda Rivas, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://las-americas.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center\u003c/a>. Rivas is one of the few lawyers in El Paso who is representing migrants in the program. She tells the story of a Honduran woman who asked for asylum and was put in this program. The woman told U.S. authorities she didn't feel safe in Juarez as a single woman, but she was sent back anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, Rivas said, the woman alleged she was kidnapped and raped by multiple attackers. When Rivas heard about the allegations, she said that she and other advocates escorted the woman to the international bridge and convinced authorities to let her wait in the U.S. for her day in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas said she's terrified for her other clients who remain in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're representing them, and you know they're going to be back in Juarez,\" Rivas said. \"And you don't know if something's going to happen to them while they're waiting for the court, or they're waiting for you to go out there and work on their asylum cases with them. Anything can happen. And it's happening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration said it will assess claims from migrants who say they fear returning to Mexico, and will exempt them if they are found to be \"more likely than not\" to face persecution or torture in Mexico. But in practice, advocates say, such exceptions are extremely rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocates and lawyers in El Paso are also concerned about families in the program being separated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration drew international condemnation when it routinely separated migrant parents from their children before abandoning the zero tolerance policy last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758533\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11758533 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Mexico's National Guard and Federal Police patrol the U.S.-Mexico border to prevent migrants from crossing from Ciudad Juárez. Residents and officials say they've never before seen a deployment of Mexican military forces on the northern border. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now lawyers say they have handled cases of families in which some members — sometimes the father and children older than 18 — are sent back to Mexico, while the mother and younger kids are allowed to stay in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers and advocates also say that families are separated when children come to the border with an adult who is not their parent or legal guardian, such as a grandparent, aunt or uncle, or older sibling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758538\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-34_custom-dabf810eb09af05c7af6d1306c6afed3212acc07-s500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758538\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-34_custom-dabf810eb09af05c7af6d1306c6afed3212acc07-s500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-34_custom-dabf810eb09af05c7af6d1306c6afed3212acc07-s500-c85.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-34_custom-dabf810eb09af05c7af6d1306c6afed3212acc07-s500-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Guatemalan woman holds her immigration documents at a migrant shelter in Ciudad Juárez. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While these relatives may have served as primary caretakers back in their home countries, authorities say they need legal proof of guardianship and that they're trying to ensure kids aren't being trafficked. This has been the policy in previous administrations, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But under Remain in Mexico, these relatives are separated indefinitely with no means of contacting the children, who are taken into U.S. custody and eventually sent to shelters operated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement before being placed with sponsors, often other family members, in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The government is not documenting these cases, is failing to provide ORR with critical information, and has no ability to track or reunify the families it is separating. This practice is traumatizing and endangering children,\" the \u003ca href=\"https://www.womensrefugeecommission.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women's Refugee Commission\u003c/a>, a nonprofit advocacy group, wrote in a report on Remain in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration said migrant children who arrive at the border alone, or who are separated from their families, will not be subject to Remain in Mexico. The program also excludes \"vulnerable populations\" on a case-by-case basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758537\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-29-edit_custom-3c586f3704657aef309e8981f8ee303003574ae7-s500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758537\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-29-edit_custom-3c586f3704657aef309e8981f8ee303003574ae7-s500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-29-edit_custom-3c586f3704657aef309e8981f8ee303003574ae7-s500-c85.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-29-edit_custom-3c586f3704657aef309e8981f8ee303003574ae7-s500-c85-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Valenzuela, a Mexican state immigration official, says Juárez is bracing for more migrants to arrive from the south — and to be returned from the United States. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the administration plans to grow the program. Mexico agreed to an expansion after President Trump threatened to impose tariffs unless that country did more to stem the flow of migrants coming north.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexico also agreed to dispatch its National Guard on that county's southern and northern borders. In Juarez, there's a highly visible military presence of Mexican National Guard and Army forces. Residents and officials say they haven't seen such a deployment on the northern border before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The armed soldiers say they're not there to arrest anyone. Instead, they are there to deter migrants crossing the border illegally and directing migrants to get on a waiting list to be able to cross at an official port of entry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Migrants are spending months on that list, often to be returned to Mexico after being processed by U.S. immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said Mexico's efforts to deter migration, along with the Remain in Mexico program, are having an impact. At a press conference on Friday, McAleenan said apprehensions at the border are expected to drop 25% percent in June compared to the previous month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, apprehensions in the El Paso-Juarez region remain high. The U.S. Border Patrol said last week that agents are taking into custody an average of about 800 people a day in the El Paso sector. That's down slightly from May, but still far above the number of apprehensions in the region six months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758534\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cuban migrants give each other a tearful hug after being returned to Ciudad Juárez under the Remain in Mexico program. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Enrique Valenzuela, a Mexican state immigration official, said Juarez is bracing for more migrants to arrive from the south — and to be returned from the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In one Facebook post, he stands tall in yellow camouflage, decorated with badges. He promises he'll \u003ca href=\"https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2325424304388344&id=1917751698488942\">increase the salaries of teachers\u003c/a> in Sudan. In another post, he hunches over a fire, \u003ca href=\"https://m.facebook.com/jkhgfy/photos/pcb.375368636255242/375368606255245/?type=3&source=49\">cooking food with locals\u003c/a>. And in another, published days after he oversaw a bloodbath, he's \u003ca href=\"https://m.facebook.com/pg/www.rsf.gov.sd/posts/?ref=page_internal&mt_nav=0\">standing on top of his jeep\u003c/a>, brimming with joy as throngs of men, women and children dance around him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as Hemeti, is a social media personality. He is also the leader of the Rapid Support Forces — the paramilitary group that attacked thousands of pro-democracy protesters this month, leaving more than 100 dead. This is a bit of a second act for Hemeti, who also served time with the Janjaweed, the militia group considered responsible for the genocide in Darfur about 15 years ago, \u003ca href=\"https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/14/man-who-terrorized-darfur-is-leading-sudans-supposed-transition-hemeti-rsf-janjaweed-bashir-khartoum/\">according to Foreign Policy magazine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11664645,news_11702239,news_11746028\"]On Facebook, multiple pages promote Hemeti as a formidable yet kind authority figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sudanese activists have \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/facebook-we-ask-facebook-to-remove-the-rapid-support-forces-militia-pages\">petitioned Facebook \u003c/a>to remove Hemeti and his extremist group from the platform. But the tech giant says it cannot take action because Hemeti is now second in command in Sudan's transitional government. Even if he is a warlord, Facebook leaders reason, he may be a state actor. The company is reluctant to make decisions that either anoint or knock down government officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conflict in Sudan is just the latest example of Facebook's chronic uncertainty over how to wield its vast power in volatile regions where lives are at stake — while also shielding itself from the charge that the private company is simply too powerful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massacre that has put Facebook in the hot seat this time happened on June 3, the last day of Ramadan, among the holiest of days for Muslims. RSF soldiers led the attack, along with police and some special forces, using live ammunition, tear gas, whips and sticks to raid a months-long sit-in in Sudan's largest city and capital, Khartoum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health workers on the ground say more than 100 people were killed. Those responsible tried to conceal the carnage by dumping the bodies into the Nile River. Humanitarian groups charge the junta's footmen raped women too, and point to pictures of RSF troops flaunting female underwear on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The African Union\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AU_PSD/status/1136596052088373248\"> suspended Sudan\u003c/a> in response to the killings. Amnesty International called it a \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/06/sudan-remove-rapid-support-forces-from-khartoum-streets-immediately/\">horrific slaughter\u003c/a>.\" Sudan's transitional government admitted to ordering the attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside hero=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2019/04/05/rts2fcxx-031b223a98520979c77abaa3295ef4a04408dc4d-s1500-c85.jpg\" link1=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/05/710313380/facebooks-ban-on-white-extremism-comes-amid-international-pressure,With Facebook Ban On White Extremism, International Norms Apply To U.S.\"] Facebook is \"giving a pulpit to what is essentially a terrorist organization,\" says Ahmed el-Gaili, a Sudanese attorney who practices international law and is based in Dubai. \"You cannot give a forum to an organization that has committed such crimes, even if all they are posting are pictures of cats and dogs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook has a track record of banning extremists who have come under fire in the U.S. The company recently expanded its definition of hate speech to include \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/03/standing-against-hate/\">white nationalism\u003c/a>. Multiple Sudanese activists said they find it baffling that the company would ban far-right activists like Alex Jones, and yet allow a paramilitary leader like Hemeti to use the platform as his propaganda machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, reactive changes in policy are the norm at Facebook, and they probably haven't felt enough pressure yet on Sudan,\" says Susan Benesch, director of the Dangerous Speech Project, which tracks extremist content online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook has a different explanation. Company leaders do not dispute Hemeti's track record as a warlord. But his position has changed over the years. He's moved from the fringes of Sudanese society into Sudan's main political circles. He was appointed second-in-command of a transitional government that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/11/712105501/sudans-military-says-it-has-taken-control-and-arrested-president-omar-al-bashir\">ousted dictator Omar al-Bashir\u003c/a> earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Brian Fishman, a Facebook spokesman who leads efforts to track dangerous organizations, different rules apply to state actors and non-state actors. The company has \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/11/hard-questions-are-we-winning-the-war-on-terrorism-online/\">artificial intelligence\u003c/a> designed to identify and deplatform (or boot) groups that may be affiliated with ISIS, for example. Even if certain posts might seem innocuous, they're banned because their activities in the real world are harmful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if the questionable Facebook user also represents the state, and is not explicitly breaking speech rules set by the company, Facebook is hesitant to intervene. The international community is already worried about the company's inordinate power to publish and censor the speech of more than 2 billion people. If Facebook bans a government official, Fishman says, that could make other governments even more wary of the Silicon Valley giant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CEO Mark Zuckerberg has talked openly about the expectation that social media companies should protect society \"from broader harms\" by censoring or banning content. He is calling for a new independent body to be created to take on these decisions. \"I've come to believe that we shouldn't make so many important decisions about speech on our own,\" Zuckerberg explained in a\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mark-zuckerberg-the-internet-needs-new-rules-lets-start-in-these-four-areas/2019/03/29/9e6f0504-521a-11e9-a3f7-78b7525a8d5f_story.html?utm_term=.4956a850e24b\"> Washington Post op-ed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Reporting on Facebook\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11744873/facebook-bans-alex-jones-louis-farrakhan-and-other-dangerous-individuals,Facebook Bans Alex Jones, Louis Farrakhan and Other 'Dangerous' Individuals\" link2=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/14/619488792/activists-in-myanmar-say-facebook-needs-to-do-more-to-quell-hate-speech,Activists In Myanmar Say Facebook Needs To Do More To Quell Hate Speech\"]His remarks came after his company acknowledged its slow response to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebook-genocide.html\">genocide in Myanmar\u003c/a>. Civil society and human rights organizations in that country reached out to Facebook as early as 2014, asking repeatedly for the platform to intervene as extremist leaders built their social media personalities, and later moved beyond propaganda to incite violence against the Rohingya Muslim population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Facebook ignored the warnings,\" says Michael Lwin, a technologist and lawyer based in Myanmar. The problem in that country was not that Facebook didn't know that its platform was being used for propaganda, Lwin says. It's that the company didn't act despite knowing. The company kept a handful of Burmese-language human reviewers based in Singapore, he says, who didn't understand the local context and reached out to local civil society groups infrequently and reactively. \"There are commonalities in how this story unfolds,\" Lwin adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook is one of the world's largest companies. Its revenue topped $15 billion in the\u003ca href=\"https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2019/Facebook-Reports-First-Quarter-2019-Results/default.aspx\"> first quarter of this year\u003c/a>. Facebook does not have an office in Sudan. But spokesman Fishman says a team is tracking the situation on the ground and they've made substantial investments in hiring Arabic-speaking content reviewers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before the Khartoum massacre, one paramilitary page on Facebook featured a video in which critics of the pro-democracy sit-in \u003ca href=\"https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1355542914587526&id=334006730074488&anchor_composer=false\">claimed it was failing\u003c/a>. In the days after, the RSF said on Facebook that it was acting in the\u003ca href=\"https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=845411049166853&id=270627816645182\"> interest of the country\u003c/a>, and that activist groups lacked patriotism. In another, it took credit for\u003ca href=\"https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2342676305996477&id=1917751698488942\"> bringing stability\u003c/a> to Darfur and securing the Sudanese borders against illegal immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While these military leaders use Facebook to promote their message, they've cut off Internet access to the rest of the country, imposing a digital blackout and citing security reasons. Sudanese citizens who had relied on Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram (all owned by Facebook) to publicize meeting dates, post footage of human rights abuses or message each other are not able to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It bothers me a lot,\" says Mohamed Suliman, an expat based in the U.S. He helped launch the \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/facebook-we-ask-facebook-to-remove-the-rapid-support-forces-militia-pages\">online petition\u003c/a> after Facebook failed to respond to his and other users' requests to take down Hemeti's pages. \"It's like every day, you see the one who killed your sister, who raped innocent women, being promoted as the leader. And the people he's attacking cannot speak,\" Salih said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Editor's note:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cem> Facebook is among NPR's recent sponsors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>The courts have yet to issue their final word on whether the Trump administration can add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But starting Thursday, the Census Bureau is asking about a quarter million households in the U.S. to fill out questionnaires that include the question, \"Is this person a citizen of the United States?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The forms are part of a last-minute, nine-week experiment the federal government is using to gauge how the public could react next year to census forms with the potential census question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"forum_2010101871397,news_11726656,news_11718397\" label=\"The Citizenship Question\"]Around 480,000 households in most parts of the U.S., except Puerto Rico and remote Alaska, have been randomly selected to complete one of two versions of a test census form — one \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6140275-2019-Census-Test-NSC-021319.html#document/p21/a505881\">with the citizenship question\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6140275-2019-Census-Test-NSC-021319.html#document/p13/a506801\">other without\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results, expected to be available this fall, will inform the bureau's upcoming advertising campaign for the 2020 census and plans for hiring door knockers to visit households that don't self-respond to the census. Test participants would still have to complete forms for next year's actual head count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau usually conducts similar field tests before making any changes to census forms. But Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the Census Bureau, approved adding the question before the bureau could test it on a form with the planned 2020 census questions. 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But the reality is that our improvements and changes have been effective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Anita suspended racing for much of March, when the toll of horse deaths neared two dozen — twice the rate of the previous year — and as it worked to figure out why so many horses were dying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before reopening on March 29, the park \u003ca href=\"https://www.santaanita.com/press-releases/the-stronach-group-thoroughbred-owners-of-california-reach-historic-agreement-to-improve-horse-safety-welfare-and-integrity-of-horse-racing-in-california/#.XP5RESJKiUk\">announced a series of changes\u003c/a> it planned to implement, including limiting the use of pain or anti-inflammatory medications and treatment for horses and improving early detection of pre-existing health conditions. Santa Anita had already pledged to bring in outside experts on a regular basis to review its dirt, turf and synthetic course surfaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park says those moves have already reduced catastrophic injuries “by 50 percent in racing and by more than 84 percent in training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the park reopened, seven more horses have died there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, a horse named Formal Dude was euthanized after “taking a bad step” in a mile race, \u003ca href=\"https://www.equibase.com/premium/chartEmb.cfm?track=SA&raceDate=06/08/2019&cy=USA&rn=10\">according to\u003c/a> the official race chart. An examination revealed a fractured pelvis, \u003ca href=\"https://www.drf.com/news/maiden-claimer-formal-dude-euthanized-due-pelvis-injury?type=news/all-news\">reports The Daily Racing Form\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the death of the 4-year-old gelding, the state Horse Racing Board issued a recommendation Saturday that Santa Anita “suspend racing for the seven remaining race days but that they allow horses to continue to train during that period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Anita issued its refusal on Sunday. That same day saw another horse fatality: Truffalino pulled up during the third race of the day, and the jockey \u003ca href=\"https://www.equibase.com/premium/chartEmb.cfm?track=SA&raceDate=06/09/2019&cy=USA&rn=3\">dismounted \u003c/a>just before the 3-year-old filly collapsed. The horse died of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.drf.com/news/filly-dies-apparent-heart-attack-santa-anita-hours-after-chrb-requests-track-cut-its-meet-short?type=news/all-news\">suspected heart attack\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, the California Horse Racing Board said it “does not have the authority to suspend a race meet or remove race dates from a current race meet without the approval of the race track operator or without holding a public meeting with ten days public notice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time Santa Anita suspended races in March, questions swirled about whether heavy Southern California rains and poor track conditions were causing the horse injuries and deaths. But other experts weren’t so sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no obvious answer. So every question is being asked: Is it the surface? 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