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Immigrants line up to renew work permits Many rush to complete renewal before Oct. 5 Doug Mills / NYT
This Thursday photo shows Tom Price, the health and human services secretary, at a forum on opioid abuse at the White House in Washington.
Trump’s health secretary resigns
By Amy Taxin and Astrid Galvan ASSOCIATED PRE SS
LOS ANGELES — The line stretches down the block before the sun rises in Los Angeles, made up of immigrants seeking help to renew their work permits under a program that has shielded them from deportation but is now nearing its end. Ivan Vizueta, a 25-year-old from Long Beach, California, brought a folding chair and music to pass the time while waiting to renew his papers
Price served less than eight months By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Jonathan Lemire
and get a new two-year permit that lets him work for a plumbing company and earn nearly double the amount he made at his old job. The lines have been a regular occurrence in recent days, with some people camping out as early as 3 a.m. “I have to do this so I have another two years of safety,” said Vizueta, who was brought to the country nearly two decades ago from Mexico and hopes to run his own plumbing business someday. For immigrants like Vizueta, Permits continues on A10
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This Sept. 28 photo people wait in line at CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles) for help with immigration paperwork, including renewing work permits for expiring Obama-era program for immigrants brought to the country as children.
HURRICANE MARIA
AID FLOWS TO PUERTO RICO
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s health secretary resigned Friday, after his costly travel triggered investigations that overshadowed the administration’s agenda and angered his boss. Tom Price’s regrets and partial repayment couldn’t save his job. The Health and Human Services secretary became the first member of the president’s Cabinet to be pushed out in a turbulent young administration that has seen several high-ranking White House aides ousted. A former GOP congressman from the Atlanta suburbs, Price served less than eight months. Publicly, Trump had said he was “not happy” with Price for repeatedly using private charter aircraft for official trips on the taxpayer’s dime, when cheaper commercial flights would have done in many cases. Privately, Trump has been telling associates in recent days that his health chief had become a distraction. Trump felt that Price was overshadowing his tax overhaul agenda and undermining his campaign promise to “drain the swamp” of corruption, according to three people familiar with the discussions who spoke on condition of anonymity. On Friday the president called Price a “very fine person,” but added, “I certainly don’t like the optics.” Price said in his resignation letter that he regretted that “recent events have created a distraction.” The flap prompted scrutiny Price continues on A10
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Sergeant Angel Cotton and other members of the Puerto Rico National Guard deliver food and water via helicopter to hurricane survivors as they deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Maria on Friday in Lares, Puerto Rico.
Many survivors remain without food and water By Ben Fox and Danica Coto ASSOCIATED PRE SS
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Thousands of Puerto Ricans were finally getting water and food rations Friday as an aid bottleneck began to ease, but many remained cut off from the
basic necessities of life and were desperate for power, communications and other trappings of normality in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. There were many people across the island, especially outside the capital, who were unable to get water, gas or generator fuel. That was despite
the fact that military trucks laden with water bottles and other supplies began to reach various parts of Puerto Rico and U.S. federal officials pointed to progress in the recovery effort, insisting that more gains would come soon. In some cases, aid that was being distributed by the Feder-
al Emergency Management Agency was simply not enough to meet demand on an island of 3.4 million people where nearly everyone was still without power, half were without running water in their homes and the economy was still crippled from the effects of the storm Maria continues on A10