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Facing federal agents
Portland protests find new momentum > 15
IMMIGRATION: Trump offers STATE: Washington schools eye POLITICS: Biden presents
confusion, contradictions > 14 reopening > 14 economic recovery plan > 11
15 You Decide – A Bilingual Newspaper July 23rd, 2020
Table of Contents
NORTHWEST 15 NORTHWEST: Facing
Facing federal agents, Portland protests find new momentum federal agents, Portland
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) use of federal agents against
protests find new
the will of local officials has momentum
M
ardy Widman has also set up the potential
watched protests for a constitutional crisis, 14 IMMIGRATION: Trump
against racial injus- which could escalate if offers confusion,
tice unfold in her hometown of Trump sends federal agents
Portland, Oregon, for more than elsewhere. contradictions on
seven weeks but stayed away Federal forces were immigration orders
because, at age 79, she feared con- deployed to Portland in
tracting the coronavirus. early July, and tensions have 14 STATE: Various measures
But that calculus changed for risen since: On July 11, a needed as Washington
Widman when President Donald protester was hospitalized
Trump sent federal law enforce- with critical injuries after schools eye reopening
ment agents to the liberal city to a U.S. Marshals Service
quell violent demonstrations — a officer struck him in the 13 FINANCIAL LITERACY: Pros
Hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters hold their phones aloft on Monday,
tactic he’s said he’ll use for other July 20, 2020, in Portland, Oregon. head with a round of less- and Cons to Buying a Home
cities. On Monday, a masked lethal ammunition.
Widman was in the street with mostly because of the way we vote and Then, anger flared again
make an example of it for his base is very 11 POLITICS: Biden presents
more than 1,000 other Portland residents over the weekend after video surfaced
— a far larger crowd than the city had frightening, ” she said. of a federal agent hitting a Navy veteran
ambitious economic
seen in recent days as it entered its eighth Far from tamping down the unrest, the repeatedly with a baton while another recovery plan
week of nightly protests. presence of federal agents — and particu- agent sprays him in the face with pepper
larly allegations they have whisked people
“It’s like a dictatorship,” Widman, a spray. Richard Cline, principal deputy 11 LETTER TO THE EDITOR:
grandmother of five, said, holding up a away in unmarked cars without probable director of the Federal Protective Service, Why I’m running for County
sign that read: “Grammy says: Please feds, cause — has given new momentum and told reporters Tuesday that the officers are
leave Portland.” a new focus to protests that had begun to part of the Marshals Service and that the Commissioner
“I mean, that he can pick on our city devolve into smaller, chaotic crowds. The Justice Department’s inspector general is
investigating. 9 NATIONAL: Governor of
Crowds in Portland had recently num- Puerto Rico investigated for
AUTO LOAN bered fewer than 100 people but swelled
to more than 1,000 over the weekend
— and they’re once again attracting a
corruption
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IMMIGRATION
Trump offers confusion, contradictions on immigration order
WASHINGTON (AP) sign and there is zero appetite in have been accepting new applica-
Congress to wade into the divi- tions, even though some immigra-
P
resident Donald Trump is prom- sive issue with four months to tion lawyers argue that the Supreme
ising new executive action on go before the election and in the Court ruling should require the
immigration as he returns to middle of a pandemic. program to return to its original
the defining issue of his administration. Elsewhere in the interview, form. A federal court on Friday
But Trump has offered contradictory and Trump said he would instead be restored the program to its origi-
confusing statements about his plans in signing “a big executive order” nal form, but it’s unclear whether
recent days. His comments come after that would include DACA. “But, USCIS will start accepting new
the Supreme Court rejected his efforts to we put it in, and we’ll probably applications.
end the Obama-era Deferred Action for going to then be taking it out. WHAT ELSE MIGHT THE
Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, We’re working out the legal com- ORDER INCLUDE?
which protects young immigrants brought plexities right now, but I’m going In addition to his complaints
to the country as children. Trump said to be signing a very major immi- In this June 23, 2020 file photo, United States President Donald Trump about illegal immigration, Trump
last month that he would quickly be filing gration bill as an executive order,” participates in a border security briefing at the Border Patrol base in has long railed against the country’s
Yuma, Arizona.
paperwork to address the court’s con- he said. legal immigration system, saying
cerns, but has yet to make a move. White House spokesman Judd rently enrolled in DACA who would lose it should favor high-skilled immi-
WHAT TRUMP HAS SAID: Deere quickly tried to walk back the mean- their protections against deportations and grants admitted for their “merit’ instead
The latest confusion about Trump’s dering comments, saying that Trump was the ability to legally work in the country of those with family connections. While
thinking started with a Telemundo inter- “working on an executive order to estab- if Trump dismantles the program again. he has spent years trying to overhaul the
view earlier this month in which the pres- lish a merit-based immigration system to The program hasn’t accepted any new immigration system, the coronavirus has
ident said he would soon be “signing an further protect U.S. workers.” Trump, he applications since 2017, and the Migra- allowed him to dramatically step up those
immigration bill” — “a very good bill and added, “has long said he is willing to work tion Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think efforts, including pausing the issuance of
merit-based bill” — and that “one of the with Congress on a negotiated legislative tank, estimates an additional 66,000 green cards to many people living outside
aspects of the bill is going to be DACA.” solution to DACA” — one he said “could people would now meet the age require- the country, including the relatives of
“We’re going to have a road to citizen- include citizenship” but not “amnesty.” ment for the program if it were reinstated. permanent residents.
ship,” he added. WHAT’S AT STAKE: The United States Citizenship and Any new restrictions are likely to be
The problem: No such bill exists to There are about 650,000 people cur- Immigration Services has not appeared to challenged in court.
STATE
Various measures needed as Washington schools eye reopening
OLYMPIA, Washington (AP) The report, released by the nity to support school
state Department of Health, reopening,” said Dr.
A
new report looking at the Seattle and King County Public Jeff Duchin, the health
impact of opening Washing- Health and Institute for Disease officer for Seattle and
ton schools in the fall says that Modeling, details modeling ran King County Public.
various measures — including masks and by IDM based on the first three “I find that conclu-
physical distancing — may be able to months of the upcoming school sion very problematic.
ensure that sending students back to the term in King County, but said It reflects the intense
classroom doesn’t increase transmission the results could be applied to interdependence that
of the coronavirus, but only if commu- other communities. we have on each other
nity-wide activity of COVID-19 remains It showed various scenarios in this community in
low. that included grouping students order to move forward
“What’s happening in the community by age, physical distancing, safely in the era of
matters just as much as what happens in wearing masks, as well as daily COVID-19.”
the schools,” Lacy Fehrenbach, deputy screening of staff and students Durchin said that
secretary for COVID-19 response at the for symptoms. the community as a
Department of Health, said at a news The report found that reopen- Teachers construct a “We Miss You” message to their students at Adams Elementary whole needs to be more
School in Spokane, Washington.
conference to discuss the report. “We ing schools without any of the aggressive about lim-
very, very much want to reopen schools above countermeasures could and that the rate of transmission would iting social interac-
for some level of in-person learning in lead to a doubling in the number of new need to drop by the end of August for tions, and abiding by physical distancing,
the fall and we’re also very concerned COVID-19 cases in the county between schools to reopen in September “without wearing facial coverings and washing
about the rising level of COVID-19 activ- September and December. trigger exponential growth in COVID-19 hands.
ity throughout Washington state and The report also said the report was burden.” More than 42,300 people have tested
what that means for reopening schools in drafted before a recent spike in cases in “At this time, there is too much positive for the virus in Washington state
a little more than a month.” King County and other areas of the state, COVID-19 transmission in our commu- and about 1,400 have died.
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POLITICS
Biden presents ambitious economic recovery plan
WASHINGTON (AP) plan to rebuild the post-coronavi-
rus economy, following a $2 trillion
J
oe Biden wants to spend more environmental proposal he released
than three-quarters of a tril- last week and a $700 billion plan
lion dollars to dramatically unveiled the week before seeking
improve care for older Americans, to increase government purchas-
bolster low-income families’ tax ing of U.S.-based goods and invest
credits and provide preschool for all in new research and development.
3- and 4-year-olds — part of the pre- Biden is attempting to illustrate
sumptive Democratic presidential for voters how the coronavirus can
nominee’s larger plan to remake an present opportunities for job growth
economy ravaged by the coronavirus. and new policy priorities in contrast
Unveiled Tuesday, the proposal to President Donald Trump, who has
is slated to cost $775 billion over promised to rebuild the economy
10 years and is designed to create 3 stronger than ever but other-
million new jobs caring for older wise struggled to articulate what he
people and providing improved early hopes to accomplish with a second
education to children. Biden prom- term.
ises to pay for it by reducing tax Senior Biden campaign officials
breaks for real estate investors with described the care-giving plan as a
annual incomes of $400,000-plus, “core pillar” of their candidate’s eco-
while also increasing compliance Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event on Tuesday, July 14, nomic recovery plan, saying on a
2020, Wilmington, Delaware.
with existing tax law for high earners. conference call with reporters that
The former vice president is plan- “The pandemic has laid bare just how ties of working and also caring for family it was an important key to “getting
ning to provide more details during an hard it is for people in this country to find members,” Biden campaign’s wrote in a people back to work” in the wake of the
afternoon speech near his home in Wilm- access to quality caregiving they need for 10-page announcement of the plan. pandemic and the rising unemploy-
ington, Delaware. themselves, or to juggle the responsibili- It marks the third plank of Biden’s larger ment it sparked.
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NACIONAL
Investigan a gobernadora de Puerto Rico por corrupción
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) El panel también investigará a otros repentinamente tras recibir una llamada de Desde entonces Vázquez ha negado que
cuatro funcionarios gubernamentales, una persona en ese departamento. Longo fuese despedida en represalia por
L a gobernadora Wanda Vázquez y incluyendo a un senador y al secretario de la Wandymar Burgos, la secretaria de Jus- la investigación. Dijo que le pidió a Longo
otros altos funcionarios de Puerto Gobernación, Antonio Luis Pabón. ticia nombrada después de que Longo fue que renunciara debido a una presunta
Rico se convirtieron el lunes en el Una portavoz de la gobernadora le dijo despedida, dijo posteriormente que ella es interferencia en una pesquisa federal sobre
objeto de una investigación gubernamental a la AP que Vázquez ya expresó su opinión la que pidió que los casos le fueran devuel- un posible fraude al Medicaid, el servicio
por acusaciones recientes de corrupción. sobre el tema hace algunos días en una con- tos porque acababa de enterarse de su exis- gubernamental de atención médica a las
El Panel sobre el Fiscal Especial Inde- ferencia de prensa, en la que dijo que reci- tencia y necesitaba investigarlos. Después personas de bajos recursos.
pendiente de este territorio estadounidense biría con beneplácito una investigación y varios altos funcionarios del partido de la Mientras tanto, la gobernadora defendió
accedió a investigar las acusaciones contra señaló que los alegatos eran “vengativos” y gobernadora exigieron que renunciara, lo a Burgos, diciendo que sus acciones fueron
Vázquez y otros luego de que el Departa- “amañados”. No fue posible contactar a un cual hizo. inusuales, pero no ilegales.
mento de Justicia de la isla se las remitió, lo vocero del secretario de la Gobernación
cual derivó en la renuncia de dos secretarias para que comentara.
de Justicia hace algunos días y en exhorta- La exsecretaria de Justicia Dennise Longo
ciones para que se someta a la gobernadora emitió un comunicado en los primeros días
a un juicio político. de julio en el que dijo que la gobernadora y
“Es un asunto muy serio”, dijo Edgardo otros eran blanco de una investigación que
Román, presidente del Colegio de Aboga- el departamento había iniciado este año, rel-
dos y Abogadas de Puerto Rico, a The Asso- acionada al presunto mal manejo de sum-
ciated Press. “Esto significa que ya hay dos inistros destinados a los puertorriqueños
Llame para una cita.
entidades por separado que han concluido afectados por una serie de terremotos.
que existen hechos suficientes como para Longo fue despedida el mismo día en el
investigar una gobernadora”. que refirió los casos al panel especial. El
Es la primera vez que el panel especial le presidente de ese panel le dijo a la AP que
abre una pesquisa a un gobernador en fun- alguien del Departamento de Justicia estaba ABIERTO DIARIAMENTE
ciones en la historia reciente de Puerto Rico, a punto de entregar archivos relacionados a
agregó. los casos que se iban a investigar, pero se fue
NATIONAL
Governor of Puerto Rico investigated for corruption
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) The panel also will investigate the cases be returned because she
four other government officials had just found out about them and
P
uerto Rico’s governor and other including one senator and Chief of needed to research them. Several top
top officials on Monday became Staff Antonio Luis Pabón. members of the governor’s party then
the formal targets of an in-depth A spokeswoman for the gov- demanded she resign, which she did.
government investigation into recent cor- ernor told the AP that Vázquez Vázquez has since denied that
ruption allegations. already expressed herself on the Longo was fired in retribution for
The U.S. territory’s Special Indepen- issue earlier this month during the probe. She said she asked Longo
dent Prosecutor’s Panel agreed to probe a press conference in which she to quit because of purported inter-
the allegations against Gov. Wanda said she would welcome an inves- ference in an unrelated federal probe
Vázquez and others following a referral tigation and called the allegations into possible Medicaid fraud. Mean-
from the island’s Department of Justice “vengeful” and “rigged.” A spokes- while, the governor defended Burgos,
that ended with two justice secretaries person for the chief of staff could saying her actions were unusual but
stepping down earlier this month and led not immediately be reached for Two protesters hold a picture of Governor Wanda Vázquez be- not illegal.
hind bars during a protest on Thursday, January 23, 2020, in San
to calls for impeachment against the gov- comment. Juan, Puerto Rico.
The special panel now has 90 days
ernor. Former Justice Secretary Dennise to investigate the allegations. Inde-
“This is very serious,” Edgardo Román, Longo had issued a statement in The president of that panel told the AP pendent prosecutors can decide
president of the Bar Association of Puerto early July saying the governor and others that someone from the Department of whether to dismiss them or determine
Rico, told The Associated Press. “It means were the targets of an investigation that Justice was about to drop off files related there is enough evidence to file charges.
there are already two entities that have the department had launched earlier this to the cases slated for investigation but The decision to investigate comes
independently concluded there is suffi- year involving the alleged mismanage- abruptly left after receiving a call from nearly three weeks before Vázquez com-
cient basis to investigate a governor.” ment of supplies slated for Puerto Ricans someone at the Department of Justice. petes in the Aug. 9 primary of the pro-
The decision marks the first time the affected by a series of strong earthquakes. Wandymar Burgos, the justice secre- statehood Progressive New Party to be
special panel investigates a sitting gover- Longo was fired the same day she tary appointed after Longo was fired, its candidate for governor in the island’s
nor in recent history, he said. referred the cases to the special panel. later said she’s the one who demanded general elections in November.
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