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Man wanted in Zapata arrested by Laredo police

New app protects illegal immigrants

By César G. Rodriguez ZA PATA T I ME S

A man wanted by Zapata County authorities was arrested Sunday in Laredo at a WalMart, according to police.

Last week, Zapata Crime Stoppers sought the community’s assistance to locate a suspected burglar identified as

Kristopher Alan Essary, 34.

At about 6 p.m. Sunday, Laredo police responded to reports of a man Essary removing security tags from merchandise at Wal-Mart, 2320 Bob Bullock Loop. LPD officers

identified the suspect as Essary.

Police soon found out he had a warrant out of Zapata County for burglary. They also discovered he was in possession of a stolen vehicle, according to LPD. Essary was charged by police with unauthorized use of a vehicle and tampering with price tags.

ZAPATA, TEXAS

THREE HURT IN 3-VEHICLE CRASH

Courtesy photo / Zapata County Constable Pct. 2 Daniel "Danny" Arriaga

Shown is one of the three vehicles involved in a crash on Monday morning in Zapata.

Victim pinned in car, airlifted to hospital

By César G. Rodriguez ZA PATA T I ME S

A person was seriously injured in a three-vehicle crash reported Monday in Zapata County, according to authorities.

At about 9:40 a.m., first responders were dispatched to a three-vehicle collision at the

intersection of U.S. 83 and Ninth Avenue in Zapata.

“Upon arrival, we found one patient that was pinned in one of the vehicles and required emergency extrication/rescue.

(The) patient was extricated with multiple extrication tools including Jaws of Life, rams, spreaders, etc.,” said Zapata

County Constable Daniel "Danny" Arriaga on his Facebook page.

The patient was airlifted to a hospital in the Rio Grande Valley. Paramedics treated two other people at the scene.

The Texas Department of Public Safety took over the investigation.

Lawbreakers send alert when ICE comes calling

By Olivia P. Tallet HOUSTON CHRONICLE

Immigration agents knocking at the door? Now, there’s an app for that, too.

United We Dream, the largest national immigrant youth-led organization, has officially launched a smartphone application that added yet another tool to protect immigrants living in the U.S. illegally by utilizing high tech and online social communications.

The app, called Notifica, allows immigrants here illegally to activate a plan if they come in contact with immigration law enforcement authorities or find themselves at risk of being detained.

Users can prepare a set of automatic messages to alert — with one click — family members, lawyers and others if they, or someone they care about, encounter immigration enforcement authorities. The tool was developed last year and distributed on a small scale and is now available for the public on Google and Apple apps stores.

Smartphone applications to deal with arrests by immigration agents are evolving in an era of increased enforcement on the southern border, as well as inside the country.

“The current sociopolitical context of enforcement has increased fear and anxiety in the immigrant community, regardless of citizenship status,” said Jodi Berger Cardoso, a professor at the University of

Houston’s Graduate College of Social Work who specializes in exposure to trauma and psychosocial stress related to migrations.

“We have witnessed in Texas and across the United States the increase in Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in local communities, including schools,” she said.

Adrian Reyna, director of Membership and Technology Strategies for United We Dream, said that “when something actually happens, most people don’t know what to do at that moment.”

Being prepared The app was designed “precisely to have a plan of action at your” fingertips, Reyna said.

Once Notifica is downloaded to a phone, the user can create personalized messages for predetermined family members and others they would want to inform in the event of an encounter with law enforcement.

For example, one message could be forwarded to a lawyer warning about an arrest in progress or to a family member with instructions to call an advocate from a legal defense group.

Damaris González, a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program along with her two sisters, said she and her family are installing the app on their phones.

“My mom doesn’t have documents, so I want to make sure Illegal continues on A11

BATTLE OF THE BULGE

WWII veteran recognized More than 73 years after conflict, Arnoldo Rodriguez gets long-overdue stripes

By Jason Mack ZA PATA T I ME S

Inches of gun barrel piercing through snow and reflecting the morning light outside a church in the Ardennes saved Arnoldo Rodriguez from joining the tens of thousands of casualties at the Battle of the Bulge. More than 73 years after narrowly escaping his foxhole, the World War II veteran is receiving the long-overdue stripes from his promotion to corporal.

"I’m excited for the stripes," Rodriguez said.

"I’m really happy that they are doing something for me."

The family is also thrilled to see Rodriguez officially merited more than seven decades after his paperwork was lost in the shuffle of the war.

"Our father is a very patriotic veteran, and we are very appreciative and extremely proud of him for getting this recognition after all these years. It's long overdue," Susie Coultress said. "I’m so happy God has given him this opportunity that at the age of 94 he is still able to feel

the love and recognition they are giving him for serving his country so many years ago."

Rodriguez, 94, and three of his brothers were drafted into the Army in 1944. His 26th Infantry Division, 104th Infantry Regiment of Company G fought in several battles before unknowingly heading into the Battle of the Bulge in December.

"We didn’t know where we were going," Rodriguez said. "They took us to Belgium, and in Belgium they told us to get down. There were a lot of bombs."

After being promoted to corporal by his platoon sergeant early in the battle, Rodriguez was protecting a church along

with his division on Dec. 20, 1944. German forces crossed between them and their company leaving Rodriguez trapped overnight in the foxhole that nearly became his grave.

"We knew the Germans were in front of us on top of a church. We were guarding the church and the Germans crossed our line," he said. "We were supposed to be relieved by 11 o’clock, but our company couldn’t send anybody because the Germans were between us and them. We stayed there all night, and that’s when we got covered with the snow."

Before falling asleep on a bale of hay, Rodriguez thought to stick his rifle Veteran continues on A11

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Arnoldo Rodriguez is presented a plaque commemorating his involvement in the Battle of the Bulge by staff sergeants Jennifer Smith and Carlos Siejo.

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AROUND THE WORLD

TODAY IN HISTORY

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18

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First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 1220 McClelland Ave. 10 a.m. to noon. Public is invited.

Proceeds are used to support the church’s missions.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25 Border Region Behavioral Health Center Volunteer Services Council’s 26th Annual Administrative Professionals' Day Luncheon & Musical Fashion Show. 11:30 a.m.

Laredo Country Club. If you would like to purchase tickets or reserve a table, RSVP with Laura Kim 956-794-3130 or blaurak@borderregion.org. Tickets are $75 a person.

First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 1220 McClelland Ave. 10 a.m. to noon. Hard cover $1, paperbacks $0.50, magazines and children’s books $0.25. Public is invited. Proceeds are used to support the church’s missions.

THURSDAY, APRIL 26 Villa San Agustin De Laredo Genealogical Society Meeting. 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Joe A. Guerra Public Library, second floor. Speakers will be Cynthia Haynes Ramirez and Pat Rogers Yzaguirrre. For more information, call Syliva Reash at 956-763-1810.

Spanish Book Club meeting. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Joe A. Guerra Public Library conference room. For more information, call Syliva Reash at 956-7631810.

SATURDAY, APRIL 28 RGISC’s 3rd Earth Day Fest with Kayak Races and Eco-Games. The Rio Grande International Study Center will host its 3rd Earth Day celebration.

8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Lake Casa Blanca State Park. Fun-filled family event.

Free event and free entry to park.

Register now for kayak races, $20 per person, at www.rgisc.org or call 956718-1063 for more info.

SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 2018 United Methodist Men Spaghetti Luncheon. 1220 McClelland Ave. 12 p.m. to 1:30 pm. All you can eat spaghetti, bread, salad, drink, and dessert.

Public is invited. Free will donations accepted. Proceeds are used to support the church’s mission projects.

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A protester paints "Hands off Syria" on the street during a protest against the airstrikes on suspected chemical weapons sites in Syria, outside of the U.S embassy in Cyprus.

ALLIES VAGUE ON EVIDENCE The United States, France and Britain have said their airstrikes on Syria were a response to a reported chemical attack in a rebel-held Damascus suburb.

However, none of the three nations have made public the evidence they might have proving a link between the Syrian government and the April 7 attack.

Syria and its military ally Russia have denied a chemical weapon attack took place, saying their inspectors visited the site and found no evidence of one.

Western officials have dismissed the assertions as lies, contending that chlorine and sarin nerve gas were used in the

reported attack that aid workers said killed 40 people in Douma.

Britain, France and the United States have primarily cited publicly available open source information and unspecified intelligence as evidence for the chemical assault and in turn for the U.S.-led airstrikes that were launched before international inspectors had investigated.

A fact-finding team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons had been expected to inspect the site in Douma when the airstrikes took place Friday. — Compiled from AP reports

TUESDAY, MAY 1 15th Annual Mental Health and Substance Abuse Symposium. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. UT Health Regional Campus Laredo. 1937 Bustamante St. For more information, call the Area Health Education Center at 956-7120037.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 2 First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 1220 McClelland Ave. 10 a.m. to noon. Hard cover $1, paperbacks $0.50, magazines and children’s books $0.25. Public is invited. Proceeds are used to support the church’s missions.

SATURDAY, MAY 5 First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

1220 McClelland Ave. Hard cover $1, paperback $0.50, magazines and children’s books, $0.25. Public is invited. Proceeds are used to support the church’s missions.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 9 First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 1220 McClelland Ave. 10 a.m. to noon. Hard cover $1, paperbacks $0.50, magazines and children’s books $0.25. Public is invited. Proceeds are used to support the church’s missions.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 16 First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 1220 McClelland Ave. 10 a.m. to noon. Hard cover $1, paperbacks $0.50, magazines and children’s books $0.25. Public is invited. Proceeds are used to support the church’s missions.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 1220 McClelland Ave. 10 a.m. to noon. Hard cover $1, paperbacks $0.50, magazines and children’s books $0.25. Public is invited. Proceeds are used to support the church’s missions.

SATURDAY, MAY 26 Mexico Lindo 2018. Laredo Little Theater, 4802 Thomas Ave. 7 p.m.

Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 years of age or younger.

UK sorry for 'appalling' treatment of Caribbean immigrants The British government apologized Monday for its "appalling" treatment of some immigrants from the Caribbean, as reports of law-abiding residents being threatened with deportation overshadowed a London meeting of leaders from the 53-nation Common-

SATURDAY, JUNE 2 First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

1220 McClelland Ave. Hard cover $1, paperback $0.50, magazines and children’s books, $0.25. Public is invited. Proceeds are used to support the church’s missions.

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grants to Britain in 1948 — came from what were then British colonies or newly independent states.

Those who arrived before 1971 had an automatic right to settle in the U.K. But some from that generation, especially those who arrived as children on their parents' passports, say they have been denied medical treatment or threatened with deportation because they can't produce papers to prove their status.

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND THE NATION Starbucks faces image crisis after arrest of black men Three years ago, Starbucks was widely ridiculed for trying to start a national conversation on race relations by asking its employees to write the words "Race Together" on coffee cups.

The initiative, though it backfired, was in line with the company's longstanding effort to project a progressive and inclusive image.

The company is now through the looking glass, trying to tamp down a racially charged uproar over the arrest of two black men at one of its stores in Philadelphia. How could Starbucks, which once urged its employees to start conversations about race with customers, now be under fire for its treatment of black people?

The episode highlights the risks large corporations run when they tie their brands so closely to social messaging. In

WEDNESDAY, MAY 30 First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 1220 McClelland Ave. 10 a.m. to noon. Hard cover $1, paperbacks $0.50, magazines and children’s books $0.25. Public is invited. Proceeds are used to support the church’s missions.

wealth.

Britain wants to use this week's summit of the alliance of the U.K. and its former colonies to help Britain bolster trade and diplomatic ties around the world after it leaves the European Union.

But anger over what many see as the U.K.'s shabby treatment of residents of Caribbean origin eclipsed trade topics.

Members of the "Windrush generation" — named for the ship Empire Windrush, which brought the first big group of post-war Caribbean immi-

Jacqueline Larma / AP

Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson walks toward a meeting with Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and other officials on Monday.

2015, then-CEO Howard Schultz shrugged off the "Race Together" fiasco as a well-intentioned mistake and pressed on with his public efforts to engage in the debate over race in America. His successor, Kevin Johnson, is now scrambling to keep the Philadelphia incident from shattering the message Schultz was going for:

Starbucks is a corporation that stands for something beyond profit.

"The more your brand is trying to connect emotionally to people, the more hurt people feel when these kinds of things happen," said Jacinta Gauda, the head of the Gauda Group.

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND THE STATE Texas man found guilty in death, dismemberment of student A Texas jury on Monday convicted a man of killing a college student who was found dismembered, burned and with her heart cut out — rejecting a defense attorney's argument that her client panicked only after the woman died during consensual sex.

Jurors in Fort Worth deliberated less than three hours before finding Charles Dean Bryant, 31, guilty of murder in the death of Jacqueline Vandagriff, a 24-year-old student at Texas Woman's University in Denton.

Defense attorney Glynis McGinty argued that Vandagriff died accidentally during consensual sex with Bryant.

She said a plastic tie was placed around Vandagriff's neck, causing asphyxiation.

Prosecutors countered that there's no evidence the two had

Today is Wednesday, April 18, the 108th day of 2018. There are 257 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History: On April 18, 1938, Superman, AKA "The Man of Steel," made his debut as the first issue of Action Comics (bearing a cover date of June) went on sale for 10 cents a copy. (In 2014, a nearly flawless original copy was sold on eBay for $3.2 million.)

On this date: In 1775, Paul Revere began his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Massachusetts, warning colonists that British Regular troops were approaching.

In 1906, a devastating earthquake struck San Francisco, followed by raging fires; estimates of the final death toll range between 3,000 and 6,000.

In 1956, American actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco in a civil ceremony. (A church wedding took place the next day.)

In 1966, "The Sound of Music" won the Oscar for best picture of 1965 at the 38th Academy Awards. The first Major League baseball game played on AstroTurf took place at the Houston Astrodome as the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Astros 6-3. Bill Russell was named player-coach of the Boston Celtics, becoming the NBA's first black coach.

In 1983, 63 people, including 17 Americans, were killed at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, by a suicide bomber.

In 1998, despite fierce internal dissent, Northern Ireland's main Protestant party, the Ulster Unionists, approved a peace agreement. The remains of Pol Pot were cremated, three days after the Khmer Rouge leader blamed for the killings of up to two million Cambodians died at age 73. Former North Carolina governor and U.S. senator Terry Sanford died in Durham at age 80.

Ten years ago: Addressing the United Nations, Pope Benedict XVI said that respect for human rights, not violence, was the key to solving many of the world's problems.

Five years ago: The FBI released surveillance camera images of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing and asked for the public's help in identifying them, hours after President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama attended an interfaith service at a Roman Catholic cathedral. Randy Newman, Heart, Rush, Public Enemy, Donna Summer, Albert King, and producers Quincy Jones and Lou Adler were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Los Angeles.

One year ago: Turning back to the economic populism that helped drive his election campaign, President Donald Trump signed an order he said should help American workers whose jobs were threatened by skilled immigrants; the signing took place at the headquarters of hand and power tool manufacturer Snap-on Inc., in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Today's Birthdays: Actor Clive Revill is 88. Actor James Drury is 84.

Actor Robert Hooks is 81. Actress Hayley Mills is 72. Actor James Woods is 71. Actress-director Dorothy Lyman is 71. Actress Cindy Pickett is 71. Country musician Walt Richmond (The Tractors) is 71. Country musician Jim Scholten (Sawyer Brown) is 66. Actor Rick Moranis is 65. Actress Melody Thomas Scott is 62. Actor Eric Roberts is 62. Actor John James is 62. Rock musician Les Pattinson (Echo and the Bunnymen) is 60. Author-journalist Susan Faludi is 59. Actress Jane Leeves is 57. Ventriloquist-comedian Jeff Dunham is 56. Talk show host Conan O'Brien is 55. Bluegrass singermusician Terry Eldredge is 55. Actor Eric McCormack is 55. Actress Maria Bello is 51. Actress Mary Birdsong is 50. Actor David Hewlett is 50. Rock musician Greg Eklund (The Oolahs) is 48. Actress Lisa Locicero is 48. TV chef Ludovic Lefebvre is 47. Actor David Tennant is 47. Country musician Marvin Evatt (EH'-veht) is 44. Rock musician Mark Tremonti is 44.

Rhythm-and-blues singer Trina (Trina and Tamara) is 44. Actress Melissa Joan Hart is 42. Actor Sean Maguire is 42. Actor Kevin Rankin is 42. Actor Bryce Johnson is 41. Reality TV star Kourtney Kardashian (kar-DASH'-eeuhn) is 39. Actress America Ferrera is 34. Actress Ellen Woglom (TV: "Marvel's Inhumans") is 31. Actress Vanessa Kirby is 30. Actress Alia Shawkat is 29. Actress Britt Robertson is 28.

Actress Chloe Bennet is 26. Rock singer Nathan Sykes (The Wanted) is 25. Actor Moises Arias is 24.

Thought for Today: "I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world." — Ben Hecht, Hollywood screenwriter (born 1894, died this date in 1964).

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McGinty said Bryant committed a crime by panicking and disposing of the woman's body in September 2016, but he did not commit murder.

But prosecutor Lucas Allan told jurors that contrary to defense claims, Bryant didn't "freak out" because Vandagriff died. Bryant deliberately killed her and calmly dismembered her body while cutting out her heart, Allan said.

— Compiled from AP reports

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CRIME Man cited for hunting rattlesnakes S P EC IAL TO THE TI ME S

On March 25, game wardens were on patrol when they encountered a truck traveling through a remote area of Zapata County.

After pulling over the

car, it was found that the driver, who has an extensive history of game and fish violations, was hunting rattlesnakes from the roadway. Two citations were issued, and two rattlesnakes were seized.

After traveling to his residence to retrieve other illegally harvested snakes, it was found the violator had picked up another rattlesnake on the roadway immediately after receiving citations and

being released from the first contact that night.

Additional citations were issued for hunting from the public roadway.

Eleven more rattlesnakes were seized from the residence.

U.S. Air Force drops rape charges A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

SAN ANTONIO — An Air Force general has dropped charges against a former training instructor who military prosecutors were preparing to re-try on rape accusations at a San Antonio

Inmate loses at Supreme Court A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

HOUSTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review an appeal from a Texas man on death row for strangling his girlfriend 18 years ago.

The high court decision upholds a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling last year rejecting arguments that 46-year-old Daniel Acker was innocent of the 2000 slaying of 32-year-old Marquetta George of Sulphur Springs. Attorneys also contended Acker's trial court erroneously excluded evidence of his innocence, that appeals he previously lost were based on false evidence and that he had poor legal help in earlier appeals.

base decades ago.

The San Antonio Express-News reports the decision ends a long legal battle for Master Sgt. Michael Silva, who was convicted in 2015 for raping two women at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. Silva was sentenced

to 20 years in military prison, but he was released last year following an appeals court ruling.

Brig. Gen. Heather Pringle dismissed the case against Silva Monday because a recent appellate ruling changed the statute of limitations

applying to his charges and because an accuser didn't want to participate in a retrial.

The dismissal follows a larger investigation at the base involving 35 basic training instructors accused of assaults and harassment.

Ex-BP economist guilty of fraud in Texas case ASSOCIATED PRE SS

HOUSTON — A refining supply economist with BP America Inc. faces up to 20 years in prison over a failed online extortion scheme against the Houstonbased energy company.

Prosecutors say 28year-old George Koutsostamatis of Chicago pleaded guilty to wire fraud in a case involving emails he sent from an outside account. A federal judge in Houston on

Monday accepted the plea and let Koutsostamatis — who's no longer with BP — remain free on bond pending sentencing.

Investigators say Koutsostamatis falsely claimed to have personal information of BP workers and threatened to release the data, plus threatened to provide internal company details to competitors. He demanded 125 bitcoins, a digital currency created and exchanged independent of banks or governments.

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Starbucks, fire employee who called the police

By Jenice Armstrong TH E P H ILADE LPHIA I NQUIRER

That Starbucks employee who sicced police on those two black men in Philadelphia last week couldn’t have been more wrong.

That was a racist act and, frankly, I’m infuriated. Non-paying customers use Starbucks’ restrooms all the time without having purchased something.

People also hang out in Starbucks for hours without having bought anything. They bring their laptops and park themselves in a spot. You see it all the time.

I don’t do it. I can never forget I’m black long enough to risk hanging out like that. Call me hypervigilant if you want, but what happened Thursday afternoon to those two black men arrested while waiting for an acquaintance inside the Starbucks at the 18th and Spruce is proof that the old double standards still live.

Granted, we don’t know all of the details about what took place before a Starbucks worker dialed 911 last week but witnesses say the men, whose names haven’t been released, hadn’t done anything to draw attention to themselves.

Reportedly, they were waiting on an acquaintance and had asked to use Starbucks’ restroom but were denied access because they hadn’t bought anything. When store management asked them to leave, they refused. Around 4:40 p.m., at least six Philadelphia Police officers showed up, and, after some back-andforth, escorted the men out in handcuffs as if they’d each stolen an armload of overpriced Starbucks mugs.

Judging from a viral video of the episode, it was an appalling scene, one that was carried out in full view of customers.

Kant Khatri was among those at the Starbucks that afternoon. He’d been studying for an actuarial exam when the officers came in.

"I’ve seen plenty of people of all races just sit there without buying anything and never saw a problem. One time, one of the baristas asked a man not to sleep there in a chair, but that’s it. No police involvement," Khatri told me by Facebook Messenger. "I was shocked. Partly because it didn’t make sense why that had to happen. But also because I know if they were two white guys, I don’t think the same

What happened to those two black men arrested while waiting for an acquaintance inside the Starbucks at the 18th and Spruce is proof that the old double standards still live.

situation would have unfolded."

I don’t think so, either.

Nor do a whole lot of other folks, which is why people are so worked up about the Starbucks employee’s decision to summon the police.

"I was just sitting there because I could, nursing the same cup of coffee that you do," said Melissa DePino, who shared video of the episode on her Twitter account. "I was working on the computer like people do at Starbucks."

"A lot of people stood up in there and expressed their anger and frustration about what was happening," DePino told me.

"It was really good to see.

It needs to happen way more."

She’s not lying about that. More people need to speak up, something made even more apparent Sunday afternoon.

Dozens had gathered outside the Starbucks near Rittenhouse Square to listen as Asa Khalif of Black Lives Matter Pennsylvania and others denounced the men’s arrests.

As he spoke, customers inside were sipping on lattes and working on their laptops as if the demonstrators, TV cameras, and police were miles away. At one point, Khalif and other protesters entered the Starbucks where they were met by Camille Hymes, a company vice president. One customer sitting at a table covered his head with a newspaper. Some others didn’t appear especially fazed. After the crowd left, I peeked inside and saw that some were still sitting where they had been, just hanging out, like people do in Starbucks.

But as I pointed out earlier, that’s not illegal.

What happened to those two men was racist, and frankly I’m sick of it.

Apologies aren’t enough.

Starbucks needs to make this right and do it quickly. It can begin by firing the employee who called the police on the two black men.

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Trump should be really worried by Cohen probe

By Noah Feldman BL OOMBERG NEWS

Make no mistake: The presidency of Donald Trump has hit a major inflection point with the investigation of his personal lawyer Michael Cohen by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York.

Until now, Trump personally was in jeopardy only if special counsel Robert Mueller’s team in Washington finds evidence that he knew about collusion between his campaign and Russia in the 2016 election. Even if that happens, there might not be enough to justify impeachment or a subsequent criminal charge of Trump. The president also has the power to fire Mueller to try to shut down the investigation, especially if he thinks Mueller is going beyond the terms of his appointment to investigate Russia.

Now, however, the Southern District can investigate potential Trump crimes in any area connected to Cohen, a fixer who is known to have arranged payoffs to an adult film star who says she had an affair with Trump. These prosecutors can go back as far as they want before the election, not to mention during and after it.

And there’s essentially nothing Trump can do about it. He can’t fire the career civil servant prosecutors who are now on the job. And practically, he can’t order the Southern District to stop investigating him, because such an order would likely be construed by the prosecutors there as a criminal obstruction of justice.

The upshot is that if it’s accurate, as it has been

reported, that Trump is more worried about the Cohen investigation than the Mueller one, he’s not wrong.

The Southern District team can’t bring Trump to trial while he is president.

But if it finds evidence of felonies involving Trump, the team could name him as an unindicted co-conspirator in charges against Cohen. That would tell the world that the president is a crook. It would put substantial pressure on Congress to impeach Trump. And, after Trump’s presidency ends, whether at the end of his term or before, a criminal prosecution could await.

The prospect of a trial would loom over whatever time in the presidency he has left.

The first key to seeing this as a moment of transition is to recall that Mueller’s investigation is limited by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s letter of appointment. It authorizes Mueller to investigate Russian involvement in the 2016 election and potential crimes arising from the investigation. It isn’t carte blanche for Mueller to go after any other area of Trump’s career or life.

That matters, and not only because Mueller is likely to take the terms of his appointment seriously.

The letter also points to the one way Trump could credibly try to fire Mueller without revoking the Department of Justice regulations that the letter says apply to his appointment. The regulations say Mueller can be fired for good cause. Exceeding the terms of his investigative mandate could plausibly be described as good cause for removing him.

That’s why it was a master stroke for Rosenstein -- presumably with

Mueller’s agreement and probably prompting -- to assign the Cohen investigation to the regular career prosecutors in New York. The letter doesn’t apply to them. Their job is to investigate any crime of any kind that occurred within their jurisdiction, which the office traditionally interprets extraordinarily broadly to include, in essence, the whole world.

That means the Cohen investigation can’t be blocked by firing Mueller.

It now very literally has a life of its own. And this investigation can go after any aspect of Trump’s life that might be relevant to potential crimes by Cohen. That includes crimes that Cohen may have committed on behalf of Trump.

Imagine, for example, that Cohen structured financial transactions to hide payoffs -- keeping withdrawals just small enough to fly under a bank’s radar. That would be a felony. If Cohen did so with Trump’s knowledge and on behalf of Trump, that could easily be charged as a federal conspiracy that would make Trump criminally liable for Cohen’s conduct.

That’s how easy it would be for the Southern District prosecutors to connect Trump to federal crimes.

If Trump is implicated in Cohen’s actions, the Southern District probably wouldn’t charge the president while he’s in office. Current Justice Department guidelines say that the president shouldn’t be criminally charged while in office.

(Whether that’s a constitutional requirement is under dispute, and the team that investigated Bill Clinton argued that a sitting president could be

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criminally charged.)

But the Southern District prosecutors wouldn’t have to charge Trump.

They could simply name him as an unindicted co-conspirator while charging Cohen, as a grand jury named Richard Nixon in the coverup of the Watergate burglary.

Naming the president as subject to potential felony prosecution would be a game-changer in Congress. It’s one thing for congressional Republicans to dispute potential Mueller findings that might connect Trump to Russian collusion -- on the assumption that such evidence even exists, which it might well not.

It would be another thing altogether for Republicans to ignore independent career prosecutors’ naming of Trump as an unindicted felon. They would come under huge pressure to impeach, and pay a huge political price if they did not.

Meanwhile, Trump would not be able to do anything about it. A potential felony charge would hang over his presidency. On leaving office, he could face charges and even prison.

That would create a huge incentive for Trump to resign and wait for Mike Pence to pardon him.

So there are plenty of good reasons for Trump to be much more worried now than he may have been before Cohen’s office and homes were raided last week. If Trump knows he hasn’t knowingly colluded with Russia, he knows he isn’t all that vulnerable to Mueller’s investigation. But when the person who makes your problems go away is under the microscope, that’s bad news — historically bad.

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RIBEREÑA EN BREVE Noche para las artes 1 El distrito escolar Roma Independent School District invita a una noche de arte por parte de los alumnos de primaria, secundaria y preparatoria del distrito escolar, el miércoles 18 de abril, desde las 6 p.m., en el Centro de Artes Escénicas de RISD, 2031 N. U.S. Highway 85.

Recolección de llantas 1 La Ciudad de Roma anuncia que llevará a cabo una recolección de llantas el sábado 21 de abril dese las 8 a.m., para lo cual requieren voluntarios.

La recolección se llevará a cabo de 8 a.m. a 12 p.m. Mayores informes con Blanca Ruiz al 956849-1411.

Vaquero Day Festival 1 La Ciudad de Escobares invita al Vaquero Day Festival en su 13ava. edición, el sábado 27 de abril.

Música en vivo, cabalgata, parrilladas, y más actividades para toda la familia. Entrada gratuita. Mayores informes al 956-8474106.

ZAPATA

Herido en accidente Paciente fue llevado vía aérea a hospital en Rio Grande Valley Por César G. Rodriguez TIEMP O DE ZAPATA

Una persona fue herida de gravedad durante un accidente automovilístico que involucró tres vehículos reportado el lunes en el Condado de Zapata, de acuerdo con las autoridades.

Alrededor de las 9:40 p.m., personal de emergencias fue enviado a una colisión de tres vehículos en la intersección de U.S. 83 y Ninth Avenue en Zapata.

“Al llegar, encontramos que un paciente estaba prensado en uno de los

vehículos y requería rescate/extracción de emergencia. El paciente fue extraído con múltiples herramientas incluyendo las Quijadas de la Vida, cilindros y esparcidores, etc.”, dijo el Comisario del Condado de Zapata Daniel “Danny” Arriaga en su página de Facebook.

El paciente fue llevado vía área en hospital a Rio Grande Valley. Los paramédicos trataron a otras dos personas en la escena.

El Departamento de Seguridad Pública de Texas tomó cargo de la investigación.

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Foto de cortesía / Comisaría de Condado de Zapata

La foto muestra uno de los tres vehículos involucrados en el accidente del lunes por la mañana en Zapata.

GOLDEN HEART PROJECT

VENDEN LIMONADA POR BUENA CAUSA

Medicamentos caducos 1 La Ciudad de Roma invita a la comunidad a la recolección de medicamentos sin uso y/o caducos en la plaza Roma Guadalupe el sábado 28 de abril, de 10 a.m. a 1 p.m.

Torneo de caza 1 1er Torneo de caza de cerdo y depredadores del sur de Texas, el 28 de abril de las 10 a.m. hasta el 29 de abril a las 10 a.m. Mayores informes en Brush County Insurance Agency, 702 Hidalgo Blvd., Suite 4, en Zapata, o al teléfono 956-750-3600.

Torneo de Softbol 1 Torneo de Softbol Batalla de las Insignias, donde particiarán bomberos y policías del Condado de Zapata, el 28 de abril, a beneficio de Israel “Ike” Gutiérrez. Cuota de entrada 150 dólares más 10 dólares para los umpires de los equipos. Mayores informes con Martha al 956-251-3075 o con Carlos al 956269-6436.

Cocina saludable 1 Cena esta nocheEscuela de Cocina Saludable, organizado por Texas A&M AgriLife Extension del Condado de Zapata, el 4 de mayo, de 6 a 8 p.m., en Zapata High School. Mayores informes en la Oficina de Extensión de Zapata, en el 956765-9820 i regístrese en Zapata County Courthouse, suite 249 en el segundo piso.

Evento contra lupus 1 3er. evento anual contra Lupus, el 10 de mayo en el parque Bravo. Mayores informes con Gilda Jasso al 956-2379456 y 956-2088390.

Aviario 1 La Ciudad de Roma invita a visitar el aviario Roma Bluffs World Birding Center abierto desde el jueves a domingo de 8 a.m. a 4 p.m.

Foto de cortesía

Kristopher Alan Essary

Arrestan acusado en Laredo Era buscado en Zapata

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Itzy Huerta y Rhianna Vega de Golden Heart Project muestran a Araceli Salinas cómo poner su donación en una jarra de dinero mientras el grupo vende limonada durante una recaudación de fondos en Callo de Hacha el sábado 14 de abril en Laredo.

Por César G. Rodriguez TIEMP O DE ZAPATA

Un hombre buscado por las autoridades de Zapata fue arrestado el domingo en Laredo en un Walmart, de acuerdo con la policía.

La semana pasada, Zapata Crime Stoppers pedían la ayuda de la comunidad para localizar a un sospechoso de robo identificado como Kristopher Alan Essary, de 34 años de edad.

Alrededor de las 6 p.m. el domingo, la policía de Laredo respondió a un reporte de un hombre que se encontraba retirando etiquetas de seguridad de mercancía en Walmart, ubicado en 2320 de Bob Bullock Loop. Oficiales de LPD identificaron al sospechoso como Essary. La policía pronto averiguó que él tenía una orden de arresto en el Condado de Zapata por robo. Ellos también descubrieron que se encontraba en posesión de un vehículo robado, de acuerdo con LPD. Essary fue acusado por la policía con uso no autorizado de vehículo y manipular etiquetas de precios.

UNITED WE DREAM

App notifica riesgo de detención Nota de la editora: Esta es la primera de un reportaje de dos partes sobre una aplicación de celulares para inmigrantes Por Olivia P. Tallet HOUSTON CHRONICLE

¿Agentes de inmigración tocando a su puerta?

Ahora, hay una aplicación para eso, también.

United We Dream (UWD por sus siglas en inglés), la organización nacional más grande para inmigrantes dirigida por jóvenes, ha lanzado oficialmente una aplicación de teléfono inteligente que agregó una herramienta más para proteger a los inmigrantes que viven en EU de manera ilegal mediante la utilización de alta tecnología y comunicaciones en redes sociales.

La aplicación, llamada Notifica, permite a los inmigrantes aquí ilegalmente activar un plan si entran en contacto con las

autoridades policiales de inmigración o si corren el riesgo de ser detenidos.

Los usuarios pueden preparar un conjunto de mensajes automáticos para alertar, con un solo clic, a familiares, abogados y otras personas si ellos, o alguien a quien les importa, se encuentran con las autoridades encargadas de hacer cumplir las leyes de inmigración. La herramienta se desarrolló el año pasado y se distribuyó a pequeña escala y ahora está disponible para el público en las tiendas de aplicaciones de Google y Apple.

Las aplicaciones de teléfonos inteligentes para hacer frente a las detenciones de los agentes de inmigración están evolucionando en una era de mayor aplicación en la frontera sur, así como dentro del país.

“El contexto sociopolítico actual de control ha aumentado el miedo y la ansiedad en la comuni-

dad inmigrante, independientemente del estado de ciudadanía”, dijo Jodi Berger Cardoso, profesora de la Facultad de Graduados de Trabajo Social de la Universidad de Houston que se especializa en exposición a traumas y estrés psicosocial relacionado con las migraciones.

“Hemos sido testigos en Texas y en todo EU del aumento de redadas por parte de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas en comunidades locales, incluyendo escuelas”, dijo.

Adrián Reyna, director de Membresía y Estrategias Tecnológicas de United We Dream, dijo que “cuando algo realmente sucede, la mayoría de la gente no sabe qué hacer en ese momento”.

La aplicación fue diseñada “precisamente para tener un plan de acción al alcance de su mano”, dijo Reyna. Una vez que se descarga Notifica a un

teléfono, el usuario puede crear mensajes personalizados para miembros predeterminados de la familia y para otros a quienes desearían informar en el caso de un encuentro con la policía.

Damaris González, una receptora del programa de Acción Diferida para los Llegados en Infancia (DACA), junto con sus dos hermanas, dijo que ella y su familia están instalando la aplicación en sus teléfonos.

“Mi madre no tiene documentos, así que quiero asegurarme de estar preparadas y saber qué hacer si algo sucede”, dijo González, una organizadora de United We Dream.

González, quien fue traída ilegalmente a los Estados Unidos en 1985 cuando ella tenía 9 años, considera que Notifica “hará que sea más fácil para mi familia contactarme en el caso, Dios no lo permita, que algo suceda”.

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Seattle edges Astros 2-1

By Todd Milles A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

James Paxton made sure not to let a Mariners nemesis ruin his night right from the start.

Paxton shook off a leadoff home run from Houston's George Springer to deliver six strong innings, and Seattle beat the Astros 2-1 on Monday to end a six-game skid against the World Series champions.

After that home run, Paxton (1-1) was solid, striking out seven and allowing two more hits.

Dee Gordon's RBI double off Astros starter Dallas Keuchel (0-3) made it 2-1 in the sixth inning, putting Paxton in line for the win.

"That is what you've got to do, you've got to play a clean game,” Mariners manager Scott Servais said. “We did tonight.”

Springer has feasted on Mariners pitching over the years, and coming into the series opener Monday was the only Houston regular to ever hit a home run off Paxton.

On the fifth pitch of the game, Springer smashed an inside fastball way back in left field for his 19th career home run against Seattle.

"He's tough,, Springer said.

"He throws hard and has a great angle on his ball. It's kind of one of those things where I'm looking for something to hit, and hopefully I don't miss it., After giving up the 455-foot blast, Paxton settled down by pounding the inside part of the plate.

"You can't let one hit, one home run, take me out of my game,” Paxton said.

Nick Vincent and Juan Nicasio got the ball to closer Edwin Diaz, and he pitched a scoreless ninth for his AL-leading seventh save.

Nelson Cruz hit his third home run in five games with his tying solo blast off Keuchel with two outs in the fourth.

Catcher David Freitas led off the sixth for Seattle with a double. Gordon followed with a soft line drive to right that Springer was slow to after losing his footing and slipping on the grass.

"Dee wasn't trying to do too much with the ball,, Keuchel said. "I felt like we were playing pretty deep on him. If I make a mistake and he hits it over somebody's head, then I'm fine with that. That was just bad luck.”

Houston has scored one or fewer runs in back-to-back losses. That never happened in the Astros' run to the World Series title last season.

NO DELAYS AT SAFECO FIELD Servais is plenty aware of the bad weather plaguing the majors this year. Still, he got an earful from his parents about it Monday.

They live in Wisconsin and have up to 12 inches of snow in their front yard.

"It is crazy how late (in April) it is going,” Servais said.

Three more games were postponed Monday because of weather, bringing the season total to 24,” most in the big leagues before May 1 since 2007.

Given the Mariners play at Safeco Field under a retractable roof, their opener with Houston on Monday was never in jeopardy.

UP NEXT Astros: RHP Lance McCullers Jr. (1-1, 7.71 ERA) is coming off one of his worst career starts in Minnesota on Wednesday (career-worst eight earned runs in three-plus innings), but is 5-2 with a 2.96 ERA lifetime against Seattle.

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LaMarcus Aldridge (12 )goes up for a shot defended by Kevin Durant (35) in the second half as the Golden State Warriors played the San Antonio Spurs in Game 2 of the first round of the Western Conference Finals in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, April 17, 2018.

SPURS DOWN 2-0 IN SERIES Durant, Thompson lead Warriors to second victory in playoff series

By Janie McCauley ASSOCIATED PRE SS

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Stephen Curry watched another lopsided win from the bench in sheer delight, wearing a sport coat and big smile.

The steady hands of Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson certainly have made the twotime MVP’s absence far less daunting for the defending champions so far in these playoffs.

Durant sparked a decisive third-quarter run on the way to 32 points, Thompson added 31 points and five assists in another superb playoff performance and the Golden State Warriors rallied in the second half to beat the San Antonio Spurs 116-101 on Monday night for a 2-0 lead in their first-round series.

As Curry remains out likely for the entire series nursing a sprained left knee, the Warriors used all the offensive power they had to take both home games in the best-of-seven series.

“No one can make up Steph’s contributions individually,” Thompson said. “That’s got to be done as a team and even then it’s hard with the way he can shoot the ball.”

Thompson has found his touch after missing two weeks in March with a broken right thumb.

He followed up his brilliant

11-for-13 shooting day in a 113-92 Game 1 rout Saturday by hitting 12 of 20 shots. Durant also had six rebounds and six assists for the Warriors, who went without key backup big man David West down the stretch after he sprained his left ankle early in the fourth.

Coach Steve Kerr stuck with JaVale McGee as his starting center and the 7-footer contributed 10 points and seven rebounds as the well-rounded defending champions again showed off their remarkable depth.

LaMarcus Aldridge scored 34 for the Spurs despite facing double-teams and Rudy Gay moved into the starting lineup and scored 12 points.

Game 3 is Thursday as the series shifts to San Antonio.

Thompson managed just three shots in the first quarter and began 1 for 5. He pounded the basketball down with two hands, frustrated, midway through the second quarter.

Then he found his groove.

“He hit some tough shots off one leg and you know had some opportunity bounces,” Aldridge said. “That’s why they are who they are. They made tough shots. KD made tough shots.”

A baseline 3 with 55.9 seconds left before halftime was his first of the night and got Golden State within 49-45 before the Spurs took a 53-47 lead at in-

termission.

Draymond Green began 0 for 5 before his first basket on the opening possession of the fourth quarter and Durant missed his five 3-point tries in the first half then finally hit from deep early in the third.

The Warriors opened the third on a 19-5 run to take charge but this time the Spurs didn’t go away.

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich went with Gay in the starting lineup for Kyle Anderson in an effort to generate more scoring — and his team still struggled to make shots.

Popovich said before the game that Golden State in Game 1 played “the most stifling defense we faced all year long.

That was the best defensive 48 minutes that we have competed against all year long.”

Kerr knew Popovich would have his team better prepared.

And the Spurs showed higher intensity on both ends through the first half, working to keep the ball out of Durant’s hands or contest shots while jumping in passing lanes to force mistakes.

Andre Iguodala, the 2015 Finals MVP, started a second straight game and had 14 points, seven rebounds and five assists as the Warriors beat the Spurs for the 10th time in 11 games covering the regular season and playoffs.

San Antonio struggled from the floor for the second straight game, finishing 35 for 85 (41.2 percent). In Game 1, the Spurs shot 40 just percent while going 9 for 22 from deep and got outrebounded 51-30.

TIP-INS

Spurs: Aldridge made all 12 of his free throws. ... The Spurs missed 9 of their first 11 3s and were 4 for 28 from long range. ...

San Antonio lost its sixth straight games overall against the Warriors at Oracle Arena. ...

The Spurs took their first lead of the series, 18-17, with 4:20 left in the first quarter. They trailed from wire to wire in the series opener.

Warriors: Golden State outscored San Antonio 69-48 in the second half. ... After getting 32 assists on 44 field goals in the series opener, the Warriors tallied 24 assists on 41 baskets. ...

Golden State has won nine straight postseason Game 2s, all at home, and 11 consecutive home playoff games overall.

RELIABLE WEST West scored on three straight second-quarter possessions and finished with 10 points and four rebounds in 14 minutes.

But he got injured with 9:59 left defending Aldridge and headed to the locker room, despite appearing to try stretching out his legs to return.

“He had a really nice night,” Kerr said. “I was concerned with that sprained ankle. We’ll see how he’s doing. We need him, but he told me he was doing OK.” QUOTEABLE Popovich on whether he saw potential in Kerr to coach during Kerr’s four years for San Antonio: “Oh, sure, I mean are you kidding me? He played for Phil (Jackson) for 97 years and he learned a lot and won championships. ... He’s a no-brainer.”

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Lawyer: El Chapo's mental health is deteriorating

By Tom Hays A S S O CIAT E D PRE SS

NEW YORK — Notorious Mexican drug lord and escape artist Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is having psychological problems that could hinder his ability to fight U.S. drug-trafficking charges, his lawyer and wife said Tuesday.

"We have noticed that his mental state has deteriorated, not just his memory but ... the way he understands things," attorney Eduardo Balarezo told reporters following a pretrial hearing in federal court in Brooklyn. "He's not the man he was when I first met him."

Appearing alongside the lawyer, Emma Coronel said she hasn't been allowed to see speak to

her husband since he was turned over to U.S. authorities in 2017.

"My worry is his health because I know that he is in bad shape psychologically," Coronel said. "He feels bad from what lawyers are telling me. It worries me how is he going to start the trial if he's not in good health."

Guzman, who smiled and waved at his wife as he was led into court on Tuesday, has repeatedly complained about conditions at a Manhattan jail where he's being held in solitary confinement.

U.S. authorities have authorized only very limited visits with his young daughters and sister.

U.S. prosecutors say the harsh conditions are needed because Guzman

has a history in Mexico of using his connections to run his drug empire from behind bars. They also note Guzman twice escaped from prison, the second time via a milelong (1.6 kilometer-long) tunnel dug to the shower in his cell.

In a letter to the court earlier this year, Guzman claimed that the light in his cell where he spends 23 hours a day is on at all hours. The cell has poor circulation and is kept at a temperature that's either "too hot" or "too cold," he added.

As a result, Guzman said he's had trouble sleeping, suffers constant headaches and vomits daily.

"I cannot focus to study the evidence in my case," he wrote. "It is torture 24 hours a day."

Eduardo Verdugo / AP

This Feb. 22, 2014 file photo shows Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, being escorted to a helicopter in Mexico City following his capture. Guzman’s lawyer says his client's mental health is deteriorating.

U.S. authorities have assured a judge they've taken steps to address the concerns.

Guzman has pleaded not guilty to charges that

his Sinaloa cartel laundered billions of dollars and oversaw a ruthless campaign of murders and kidnappings. He faces life in prison if convicted

at trial, which is set to begin in September.

Associated Press Writer Claudia Torrens contributed to this report.

Vague part of immigration law struck down

By Jessica Gresko A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Tuesday that part of a federal law that makes it easier to deport immigrants who have been convicted of crimes is too vague to be enforced.

The court's 5-4 decision — an unusual alignment in which new Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the four liberal justices — concerns a catchall provision of immigration law that defines what makes a crime violent.

Conviction for a crime of violence makes deportation "a virtual certainty" for an immigrant, no matter how long he has lived in the United States, Justice Elena

Kagan wrote in her opinion for the court.

The decision is a loss for President Donald Trump's administration, which has emphasized stricter enforcement of immigration law. In this case, President Barack Obama's administration took the same position in the Supreme Court in defense of the challenged provision.

With the four other conservative justices in dissent, it was the vote of the Trump appointee that was decisive in striking down the provision at issue. Gorsuch did not join all of Kagan's opinion, but he agreed with her that the law could not be left in place. Gorsuch wrote that "no one should be

surprised that the Constitution looks unkindly on any law so vague that reasonable people cannot understand its terms and judges do not know where to begin in applying it."

The case turned on a decision from 2015 that struck down a similarly worded part of another federal law that imposes longer prison sentences on repeat criminals. The majority opinion in that case was one of the last written by Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in 2016 and whose seat Gorsuch filled.

The 2015 decision "tells us how to resolve this case," Kagan wrote.

Tuesday's decision involves James Dimaya, a native of the Philippines

who came to the United States legally as a 13-yearold in 1992. After he pleaded no contest to two charges of burglary in California, the government began deportation proceedings against him.

The government argued among other things that he could be removed from the country because his convictions qualified as crimes of violence that allowed his removal under immigration law.

Immigration officials relied on a section of immigration law that lists crimes that make people eligible for deportation. The category in which Dimaya's convictions fell is a crime "that, by its very nature, in-

volves a substantial risk that physical force...may be used in the course of committing the offense."

Immigration judges would have allowed Dimaya to be deported, but the federal appeals court in San Francisco struck down the provision as unconstitutionally vague.

The Supreme Court affirmed that ruling Tuesday.

The decision does not interfere with the government's ability to deport people who are convicted of clearly violent crimes, including murder and rape, as well as drug trafficking and other serious offenses.

The ruling is limited to a category of crimes that

carry a prison term of more than a year, but do not otherwise comfortably fit in a long list of "aggravated felonies" that can lead to deportation.

The case was initially argued in January 2017 by a court that was short a member because of Scalia's death and the refusal of Senate Republicans to act on Obama's nomination of Judge Merrick Garland. Deadlocked 4-4, the justices scheduled a new round of arguments once Gorsuch joined the court.

The case is Sessions v.

Dimaya, 15-1498.

Associated Press writer Mark Sherman contributed to this report.

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Allegiant Air under fire after '60 Minutes' safety report A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS

LAS VEGAS — Allegiant Air shares continue to fall in the aftermath of a news report that is raising serious safety questions about the low-cost carrier.

Allegiant is defending its safety and says the report by CBS News' "60 Minutes" tells a "false narrative" about the airline. Investors, however, fear that the negative publicity will cause travelers to avoid Allegiant, which has a fleet including many older planes that typically require more maintenance.

"60 Minutes" reported Sunday night that between January 2016 and October 2017, the Las Vegas-based airline experienced more than 100 serious mechanical incidents, including aborted takeoffs, loss of cabin pressure, and emergency landings.

CBS said that detailed reports from the Federal Aviation Administration indicated that Allegiant flights were three-and-ahalf times more likely to suffer an in-flight breakdown than flights operated by American, United, Delta, JetBlue or Spirit.

The report also aired a long-running accusation by the Teamsters union local representing Allegiant pilots that the airline discourages pilots from reporting mechanical problems with planes.

Allegiant issued a statement by Eric Gust, vice president of operations, charging that the CBS story told a "false narrative" about Allegiant and the FAA. He said the airline complies with all FAA requirements and takes part in many voluntary safety programs and is subject to "rigorous oversight" by the FAA. "To suggest that Allegiant would engage in the practice of asking team members to violate company and regulatory obligations is offensive and defamatory," Gust said.

Shares of parent company Allegiant Travel Co. fell $3.45, or 2.3 percent, to $147.60 in midday trading Monday. They dropped 8.6 percent on Friday in anticipation of a damaging news report.

Allegiant buys used planes to keep costs down.

As of Feb. 2, Allegiant

"60 Minutes" reported Sunday night that between January 2016 and October 2017, the Las Vegas-based airline experienced more than 100 serious mechanical incidents, including aborted takeoffs, loss of cabin pressure, and emergency landings.

operated 37 McDonnellDouglas MD-80 planes and 53 Airbus A320 jets.

It is phasing out the MD-80s, which burn far more fuel than new planes. Allegiant's used planes range between 11 and 32 years old, according to a company regulatory filing.

The CBS report updated reporting by the Tampa Bay Times, which said in 2015 that Allegiant planes were four more times than those of other U.S. airlines to make an unplanned landing because of mechanical problems. None of those incidents led to enforcement action from the FAA. The FAA on Monday released a letter in which associate administrator of safety Ali Bahrami defended the agency's performance by pointing to the lack of a fatal crash involving a U.S. airline since 2009.

The FAA increased its monitoring of Allegiant in 2015 because of labor tension with its pilots. In 2016, the agency moved up a routine review of the airline by two years after a series of aborted takeoffs and other safety incidents.

FAA officials took no enforcement action against Allegiant and said they were satisfied that the airline was addressing problems found by inspectors.

Allegiant executives termed the FAA's 2016 findings "minor" and hailed the report as evidence of the airline's safety.

Ryan M. Kelly / AP

In this Aug. 12, 2017, photo by Ryan Kelly of The Daily Progress, people fly into the air as a car drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. The photo won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, announced Monday, April 16, 2018, at Columbia University in New York.

Times, New Yorker win Pulitzer for Weinstein scandal

By Jennifer Peltz ASSOCIATED PRE SS

NEW YORK — The New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for breaking the Harvey Weinstein scandal with reporting that galvanized the #MeToo movement and set off a worldwide reckoning over sexual misconduct in the workplace.

The Times and The Washington Post took the award in the national reporting category for their coverage of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and contacts between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russian officials.

The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa, California, received the breaking news reporting award for coverage of the wildfires that swept through California wine country last fall, killing 44 people and destroying thousands of homes.

The Washington Post also won the investigative reporting prize for revealing decades-old allegations of sexual misconduct against Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama. The Republican former judge denied the accusations, but they figured heavily in Doug Jones' victory as the first Democrat elected to the Senate from the state in decades.

One of the biggest surprises of the day came in the non-journalism categories when rap star Kendrick Lamar was awarded the Pulitzer for music, becoming the first nonclassical or non-jazz artist to win the prize.

The Pulitzers, American journalism's most prestigious awards, reflected a year of unrelenting news and unprece-

dented challenges for U.S. media, as Trump repeatedly branded reporting "fake news" and called journalists "the enemy of the people."

In announcing the journalism prizes, Pulitzer administrator Dana Canedy said the winners "uphold the highest purpose of a free and independent press, even in the most trying of times."

"Their work is real news of the highest order, executed nobly, as journalism was always intended, without fear or favor," she said.

A string of stories in The Times and The Washington Post shined a light on Russian interference in the presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign and transition — ties now under investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller. The president has branded the investigation a "witch hunt."

The Pulitzer judges commended the two newspapers for "deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest."

In stories that appeared within days of each other in October, The Times and The New Yorker reported that movie mogul Weinstein faced allegations of sexual harassment and assault from a multitude of women in Hollywood going back decades and had secretly paid settlements to keep the claims from becoming public.

The Pulitzer judges said The Times' Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey and The New Yorker's Ronan Farrow produced "explosive, impactful journalism that exposed powerful and wealthy sexual predators, including allegations against one of Hollywood's most influential producers, bring-

ing them to account for long-suppressed allegations of coercion, brutality and victim silencing, thus spurring a worldwide reckoning about sexual abuse of women."

The stories led to Weinstein's ouster from the studio he co-founded, and he now faces criminal investigations in New York and Los Angeles. He has apologized for "the way I've behaved with colleagues in the past" but denied any non-consensual sexual contact.

The stories' impact spread beyond Weinstein to allegations against other powerful men in entertainment, politics and elsewhere, toppling such figures as "Today" show host Matt Lauer, actor Kevin Spacey, newsman Charlie Rose and Sen. Al Franken.

Men and women, famous or not, have spoken about their own experiences with sexual harassment and assault in what has become known as the #MeToo movement.

"This moment gets called a reckoning, but we just started telling the truth about old abuses of power," Farrow tweeted Monday. "Thanks to all who keep doing so."

Weinstein spokeswoman Holly Baird declined to comment on the Pulitzer except to suggest similar recognition should be given to Tarana Burke, an activist who founded the #MeToo movement on Twitter about a decade ago to raise awareness of sexual violence.

In other categories, the Arizona Republic and USA Today Network won the explanatory reporting prize for a multi-format look at the challenges and consequences of building the Mexican border wall that was a centerpiece of Trump's campaign. The project included footage

from a helicopter flight along the entire 2,000mile border, a podcast and a virtual reality component.

The local reporting award went to The Cincinnati Enquirer for what the judges called "a riveting and insightful" narrative and video about the heroin epidemic in the area. The paper deployed more than four dozen reporters and photographers for an intense dive into the drug's toll over one week.

Work like that and the Press Democrat's wildfire coverage show "you don't have to have a huge budget to have a big impact," Canedy said.

Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall and Manuel Mogato of Reuters won the international reporting award for their coverage of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly crackdown on drugs, and the news agency's photographers received the feature photography prize for their images of the plight of Rohingya refugees who have fled Myanmar.

The breaking news photography award went to Ryan Kelly of The Daily Progress of Charlottesville, Virginia, who captured the moment a car plowed into counterprotesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in the Virginia college town. The car killed one of the counter-demonstrators, Heather Heyer.

Kelly made the photo on his last day at the newspaper before moving on to a job at a brewery. In a text Monday, Kelly described the prize as an "incredible honor" but added: "Mostly I'm still heartbroken for Heather Heyer's family and everybody else who was affected by that tragic violence."

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Chemical weapons inspectors reach Syrian town

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BEIRUT — International inspectors have entered the Syrian town where an alleged chemical attack was carried out earlier this month, Syrian state media reported Tuesday, after they had waited for days in the capital for permission from Syrian and Russian authorities.

The fact-finding mission from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is investigating reports that government forces launched an April 7 chemical attack in the final stages of their fight

to retake the town of Douma from rebels. The alleged gas attack, which Syrian activists say killed more than 40 people, prompted punitive U.S., British and French airstrikes.

Syria and its ally Russia deny any chemical attack took place, and Russian officials have accused Britain of staging a "fake" chemical attack.

British Prime Minister Theresa May says Syria and Russia — whose forces now control the town east of Damascus — are trying to cover up evidence.

Journalists were allowed access to the suspected attack sites on

Monday, but the OPCW said Syrian and Russian authorities blocked the inspectors.

The Associated Press spoke to survivors and witnesses who described being hit by gas. Several said a strange smell started spreading and people screamed, "It's chlorine!

It's chlorine!"

The U.S. and France say they have evidence that Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces used poison gas in the attack, but they have not provided any evidence, even after Saturday's punitive missile strikes.

Douma was the last rebel-held town near Damascus, and the target

Cambridge Analytica ex-CEO refuses to testify in UK

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LONDON — Cambridge Analytica's exCEO, Alexander Nix, has refused to testify before the U.K. Parliament's media committee, citing British authorities' investigation into his former company's alleged misuse of data from millions of Facebook accounts in political campaigns.

Committee Chairman Damian Collins announced Nix's decision a day before his scheduled appearance but flatly rejected the notion that he should be let off the hook, saying Nix hasn't been charged with a crime and there are no active legal proceedings against him.

"There is therefore no legal reason why Mr. Nix cannot appear," Collins said in a statement. "The

committee is minded to issue a formal summons for him to appear on a named day in the very near future."

Nix gave evidence to the committee in February, but was recalled after former Cambridge Analytica staffer Christopher Wylie sparked a global debate over electronic privacy when he alleged the company used data from millions of Facebook accounts to help U.S. President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign. Wylie worked on Cambridge Analytica's "information operations" in 2014 and 2015.

Wylie has also said the official campaign backing Britain's exit from the European Union had access to the Facebook data.

Cambridge Analytica has previously said that none of the Facebook data it acquired from an

academic researcher was used in the Trump campaign. The company also says it did no paid or unpaid work on the Brexit campaign. The company did not respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The Information Commissioner's Office said Tuesday that it had written to Nix to "invite him" to be interviewed by investigators. The office is investigating Facebook and 30 other organizations over their use of data and analytics.

"Our investigation is looking at whether criminal and civil offences have been committed under the Data Protection Act," the office said in a statement.

Nix's refusal to appear comes as the seriousness of the British inquiry becomes more evident.

of a government offensive in February and March that killed hundreds of people and displaced tens of thousands. Hours after the alleged chemical attack, the rebel faction that controlled the town, the Army of Islam, relented and was evacuated along with thousands of residents.

The site visit came hours after reports of more international air strikes on Syrian military installations. The Syrian military later said a false alarm set off air defense systems early Tuesday, retracting earlier reports of a pre-dawn "outside aggression" on its airfields in the central Homs

Hassan Ammar / AP

Syrians walk through destruction in the town of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, Syria on April 16, 2018.

region and a suburb of Damascus.

The Pentagon denied any American military activity in the area. There was no comment from Israel, which frequently carries out airstrikes in Syria but rarely acknowledges them.

Explosions were heard in the areas of the two bases, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors

the conflict through a network of sources inside the country. But it said no missiles landed inside the bases.

Earlier this month, four Iranian military personnel were killed in an airstrike on Syria's T4 air base, also in Homs.

Syria and its main allies Iran and Russia blamed Israel for that attack.

Israel did not confirm or deny the allegations.

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VETERAN From page A1 up through the snow to mark their location. It saved his life as the company struggled to find them and nearly moved on before spotting the tip of the rifle poking out of the ground. They arrived just in time as Rodriguez was unconscious due to a lack of oxygen. He survived, but he spent 10 days in a coma and was permanently disabled with trench foot, forcing him to leave the war.

"They could see the barrel of the rifle and that’s how they found us," Rodriguez said. "In the morning they found us and took us back to France, and from there they flew us to Manchester, England. I was there for a month. I was in a coma and didn’t know what happened."

Rodriguez said he initially felt sad because few of his fellow soldiers visited him while he was hospitalized. However, he eventually learned most members who carried on in the war after his ordeal were either killed in combat or taken prisoner. The incident that nearly cost him his life ultimately saved it.

"A friend of mine from Houston told me my division was finished," Rodriguez said. "They wiped it out. Some of them got killed and most of them were prisoners. If I’d still been with the division I’d be dead. I don’t like to remember those things."

A pattern of discrimination Texas A&M International University assistant professor of history Andrew Hazelton said it was common for MexicanAmerican servicemen to be promoted and not receive the recognition. He also provided examples of those recognized being discriminated against upon their return, including Medal of Honor recipients. Felix Longoria posthumously received the award, and his widow was denied service at a funeral home in Three Rivers, Texas before Lyndon B. Johnson interceded and had him buried at Arlington National Cemetery. A month after being presented the Medal of Honor by Harry S. Truman in 1945, Marcario García was denied service at the Oasis Café in Richmond, Texas and beaten with a baseball bat.

"It’s not surprising he was promoted and it never got processed," Hazelton said. "It’s part of a lot of the trends that happened to these guys when they got back. It also is the kind of thing that stimulated a lot of effort to challenge discrimination against Mexican-Americans in states like Texas and California."

Rodriguez experienced similar discrimination during the war. He said they didn’t care much about the Latinos in those days, and that added to Arambula’s motivation to take action.

"He told me he used to sit with his Mexican and Latino friends and would see Anglos getting awarded and getting medals," Arambula said. "He said they just went through the same battles and were supposed to get medals and ranks and didn’t get them because of their color. He saw it several times. That’s just the way it was. That really hit a nerve for me and I wanted him to be honored."

Coultress has already been tasked with hanging the commemorative plaque on the wall in her father’s room. When Rodriguez receives his corporal stripes at the upcoming ceremony, she will be ready to add more to the collection.

"In his room he wants all his pictures in frames that show his patriotism," she said. "He has a picture of my mom and him in a red, white and blue flag frame. I have to hang that huge plaque in his room.

He said he’s glad he can lay in his bed and see it all day long. He’s so proud of it. He reads all the different platoons that were there and then he’ll start the whole story again."

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Honoring Arnoldo The effort nearly went unrecognized, but the curiosity of Rodriguez’s nephew Jeffrey Arambula brought it into the light.

Over the past 20 years, Arambula has made regular visits to the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas, where he likes to thank the soldiers in each photo in the Memorial Courtyard for their service. All that time he had no idea his uncle served in the war. He was immediately enthralled when his mother mentioned it, and Rodriguez opened up during a visit. After learning his story about the Battle of the Bulge, Arambula decided to seek out recognition.

"He said nobody had ever honored him or shown him any respect for being in the Battle of the Bulge. I never knew," he said. "I contacted the Battle of the Bulge Association with the Army and we were able to get him a beautiful plaque and certificate, and he’s an honorary veteran as part of that."

Arambula also organized a family gathering to honor Rodriguez with the plaque, and he wanted to make it more special by having Army members there to present it. Staff sergeants Carlos Siejo and Jennifer Smith from the San Antonio Recruiting Battalion jumped at the opportunity when invited.

"I felt very inspired by everything Corporal Rodriguez had to endure during the war," Smith said. "He is a very brave and courageous hero. It was an honor to be in his presence and hear his story about the Battle of the Bulge."

Arambula opened the ceremony with an introduction. What followed was unexpected as Rodriguez revealed stories the family had never heard.

"We’re so blessed he lived this long and still has the memory to remember every single thing that happened to him," Coultress said. "It’s unbelievable. I aspire to have that memory when I get to that age."

Rodriguez explained the origin of a German helmet he still has today, saying, "It was either me or that German soldier aiming his rifle at me." He also broke down while describing the horror of exiting ships and stepping over fallen comrades.

"It was terrible and not right for a young 19-yearold to see all that carnage and then have to walk over dead bodies," he said.

"He told us some stuff and broke down crying," Siejo said. "To be there, I almost broke down, too. It was stories of everything that happened. For him to be remembering all that was a little tough."

The plaque presentation was all that was planned for Rodriguez, but that changed when he talked about having to lead men into battle as a corporal but without the stripes.

Siejo and Smith were both taken aback and excited, and they reached out to

superiors to rectify the situation. Arambula is working with the Army to set up another presentation for Rodriguez’s stripes, and the staff sergeants are hoping to find additional ways to honor him.

"We talked about making something else happen for Arnoldo because he’s been through a lot and he was never recognized," Siejo said. "We have people who can make more stuff happen and we’re working on it. We want to make something happen for him. He deserves it."

In demand Supporters of strong anti-illegal immigration policies, however, see initiatives like Notifica as tools to evade the law.

“I am not surprised by the app,” said Marri Velasquez, a Republican activist from Houston who co-founded the Hispanics for Trump group.

“It’s like fugitives, always running around trying to find the new thing. …

They use Nextdoor.com and other network groups to alert each other.”

“There is always going to be another protection, another cover-up,” Velasquez added. “But this is not going to change anything.”

Contemporary tools like Notifica, however, are in demand among immigrant communities and not only for undocumented residents. United We Dream said that Notifica and the Texas hotline are designed to help immigrant families “under an increasing threat of criminalization as (President Donald Trump’s administration) carries out its mass detention and deportation agenda.”

Arrests in the interior of the country by ICE, the arm of the Department of Homeland Security in charge of deportations, increased 42 percent since

‘Ways to survive’ A feature in development that Reyna said could be helpful to immigrants is a tool like a heat map that would allow people to monitor the level of risk in a specific location at any given time.

“In general terms, we all try to find ways to survive in our life, and this is not different,” said Luis Zayas, dean of the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin.

Under the current “aggressive immigration enforcement … it’s natural for these communities under such scrutiny to use the technology for communication that we have today,” said Zayas, also the author of the book “Forgotten Citizens: Deportation, Children, and the Making of American Exiles and Orphans.”

A similar app in development is RedadAlertas, which seeks to quickly spread immigration-raid alerts that would be verified and distributed using “raid rapid response networks.” It is planned for mid-2018, according to the app’s website. But already in use among immigrant communities are applications like Arrived and Immigo that provide information and services targeted to immigrants.

Perhaps the most notable potential technological breakthrough would be one called Bienvenidos, which could be available this year. Its website says it will provide real-time information about the best immigration routes to cross the U.S.-Mexico Border.

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Returning from war Despite the harrowing ordeal, Rodriguez takes great pride in what he and his brothers did during the war. Miraculously, all four of them returned home relatively unscathed.

"I’m very happy that we went, and my mother’s prayers brought us back," he said. "I’m very happy that everyone came back and that we were all in the war. My brothers passed away in the ‘80s and ‘90s, but they lived good lives."

Rodriguez has also lived a good life marrying his late wife Elma in 1947 after they moved to Laredo. He ran a company called Laredo Electric Motor Service for 30 years while they raised four daughters and three sons, and they provided Rodriguez with 13 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren.

"My wife is passed away and two of my boys passed away already," Rodriguez said. "I’m happy God has blessed me with so many years and I’m in good health. I’m very surprised at 94 that my health is very good."

Rodriguez has lived with Coultress for the past two years in Austin. He enjoys her company, but he’s hoping to return soon to his hometown.

"I’m happy being with my daughter, but I’d rather be in Laredo," he said.

"I don’t like the weather in Austin. I’d like to go to a nursing home in Laredo."

Coultress is happy to have her father for as long as he wishes to stay.

"It’s always an honor to be his daughter because he’s always been so proud of the fact he served in the Army," Coultress said.

"I’m sad that my mother and two of my brothers

are not alive to see this honor being bestowed upon him, but I’m thankful he’s still alive. He now knows that they have recognized him for his effort."

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that we are prepared and know what to do if something happens,” said González, an organizer with United We Dream.

González, who was brought to the U.S. illegally in 1985 when she was 9 years old, said Notifica “will make it easier for my family to contact me in the case, God forbid, something may happen.”

Trump’s inauguration Jan. 20, 2017, until the end of the fiscal year Sept. 30, compared to the same period in 2016, according to Pew Research Center using ICE data.

Houston, with 13,565 arrests, was the city with the second largest number of ICE arrests nationwide following Dallas with 16,520 during the 2017 fiscal year. The rate of the annual increase, however, was much lower in Houston, with only 5 percent compared to 71 percent in Dallas.

Immigrant populations “often experience a sense of powerlessness to protect themselves, and in particular, their children from immigration enforcement tactics, as well as racial and ethnic profiling,” Berger Cardoso said.

Policies such as Texas’ Senate Bill 4 raised concerns among human rights advocates for the potential of racial profiling;it allows police officers to request immigration status documents when they stop people.

Notifica includes information and guidance about the rights of immigrants and tips on what to do in different scenarios. It is an initiative of UWD’s National Defense Network Program, which has also developed other projects such as the Texas Immigrants’ Rights Hotline, 888-507-2970, which provides information and referrals to legal services in Texas.

Reyna said that UWD is already working on a second version of Notifica, which will include the ability to use more languages. Currently it employs Spanish and English but will be upgraded later this summer with language features in Vietnamese, Korean and Chinese. Another feature

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