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Federal judge rules US government must resume DACA By GABBY BIRENBAUM and ALAN PEREZ the daily northwestern @birenbomb, @_perezalan_
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the U.S. government must resume the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and begin accepting new applicants.
U.S. District Judge John Bates is the third judge to strike down the Trump administration’s DACA rollback, which President Donald Trump announced last fall after expressing concerns about the program’s constitutionality. DACA, created through an executive order by former President Barack Obama in 2012,
protects undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children from deportation. Northwestern has expressed its support for the program, and in November joined 18 peer institutions in filing an amicus curiae brief challenging its termination. Bates stayed his ruling for 90 days to allow the Department
of Homeland Security to come up with a more adequate explanation. If it cannot do so, he said, the order to withdraw the program will be vacated and the DHS must “accept and process new as well as renewal applications.” This latest suit against the Trump administration in the
DACA dispute was brought by Princeton University, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and others, who said the decision to end DACA was based on arbitrary reasons. Countering the plaintiffs’ arguments against the program’s termination, the Trump
administration said the plaintiffs did not have legal standing, and that the court lacks jurisdiction over the case. Bates disagreed, saying in his opinion that at least one plaintiff had standing and that the court had “both jurisdiction and statutory authority.” » See DACA, page 5
Professor curates Holocaust exhibit DC museum hosts Schapiro, Hillel students for tour By AMY LI
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Chris Canning, a member of the Pace Suburban Bus board of directors, addresses attendees of Tuesday’s public hearing. The hearing discussed the proposal to discontinue the 205 CTA bus route and provide alternative service through the 213 and 208 Pace bus routes.
Bus route proposal raises concerns Residents argue CTA changes would limit student, elderly riders By CLARE PROCTOR
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Evanston residents and other commuters voiced concerns at Tuesday’s public hearing about
the proposal to cut a 205 Chicago Transit Authority bus route, saying students would lack sufficient transportation to and from Evanston Township High School. “This is a terrible idea,” ETHS superintendent Eric
Witherspoon said about the proposal. “If we, as a community and a society, don’t take care of our children, what have we become? Do you think all the children are cookie-cutter, and they all have to be at the school at the same time?”
CTA and Pace Suburban Bus held the public hearing to discuss the proposal to discontinue the 205 Chicago/Golf Road CTA bus route and instead provide » See PROPOSAL, page 5
In his new exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, history Prof. Daniel Greene said he wanted to convey how the context of American society shaped the country’s response to the threat of Nazism. Americans and the Holocaust, the exhibition curated by Greene, opened Monday at the Washington, D.C., museum. Greene said it explores the factors that contributed to America’s attitude toward the Holocaust as it happened, including isolationism after World War I, the economic collapse of the Great Depression and anti-Semitism at home. He added that the exhibition raises difficult questions about America’s responsibility to the world in both historical and contemporary contexts, and it shows that the urgent questions faced by the country today have a specific history in the Holocaust. “What is our responsibility when we see a democracy fall apart?” Greene said. “What’s
our responsibility to refugees? What ’s our responsibility when we learn that a population is targeted for murder or for genocide?” The gallery displays primary sources such as American media coverage on the rise of Nazism in 1933 from magazines such as Time, Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan, as well as objects that belonged to refugees or Americans who rescued refugees, Greene said. He added that the exhibition took five years to put together. University President Morton Schapiro, faculty and students of Northwestern Hillel travelled to Washington, D.C., on April 16 to take an exclusive tour of the exhibit before it opened its doors to the public this week. In an email to The Daily, Schapiro described the exhibit as “spectacular.” “Professor Greene has made a monumental contribution to understanding the U.S. and understanding the Holocaust,” Schapiro said. Greene said he wanted to dispel the idea that Americans remained in the dark during the Holocaust when in reality, information on the murder and persecution of Jews was highly prevalent in U.S. media, politics and popular culture. » See MUSEUM, page 5
Council approves police, firefighter unions’ contracts By SAMANTHA HANDLER
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Aldermen approved agreements with the police and firefighter unions at a council meeting Monday, authorizing city manager Wally Bobkiewicz to execute the contracts. The Fraternal Order of Police Sergeant Union and the International Association of Fire Fighters Union both called for 3 percent wage increases for the next fiscal year, according to city documents. The documents state that the increases are higher than last year to account for changes to health insurance plans that went into effect on Jan. 1. Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) and
Ald. Tom Suffredin (6th) both voted against approving the contract with the IAFF, and Fleming also voted against the FOP agreement. Fleming encouraged city staff to be “aggressive” with contract negotiations as the city enters into budget talks for next year, especially in anticipation of the projected deficit for 2019. Bobkiewicz projected the deficit to be about $3 million, according to the Chicago Tribune. “City residents are starting to understand that we are looking at some more deficits this year, so I’m hopeful that our union staff will be mindful of that as we implement these contracts,” Fleming said. “I’m sure that our staff will be aggressively taking on these union contracts next
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year so we can make sure the taxpayers who are not in unions will be able to stay in our town.” In both contracts, the city agreed to return vacation time that had been deducted last year in exchange for each union withdrawing complaints they had filed with the Illinois Department of Labor and Illinois Labor Relations Board about that removal. FOP members were also credited with 24 hours of compensatory time for agreeing to the contract and an increase in the annual education incentive. Employees who possess a bachelor’s degree or higher from a college or university will receive an additional $1,900 stipend. » See CONTRACTS, page 5
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Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) speaks at a council meeting on Monday. Fleming encouraged city staff to be more “aggressive” with union contracts going into 2018.
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