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3.31.26 · Washington Post

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the reading of the Washington Post for today, Tuesday,
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March thirty, first, twenty twenty six. As a reminder, Radio
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read printed material. Your reader for today is Cindy Fraser.
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Today's front page headlines from the Washington Post are Israeli's
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mission kill top Iranians U S Seed's key task in
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war to its ally, New i A helps hit targets
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with deadly efficiency. Next, for some, this party is overly partisan.
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Protests cancelations, mar White House's plans for America to fifty tour.
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Our next headline, hud assists Trump in crackdown on emigration.
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President blames undocumented people for housing shortages. Next, Trump shows
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off renderings and defends ballroom plan. In the final headline
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from today's front page, white supremacists are cited by Trump officials.
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Administration revives their words in bid to end birthright citizenship. Now,
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let's turn to our first article entitled Israeli's Mission Kill
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top Iranians U. S Seed's key task in war to
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its ally, New AI helps hit targets with deadly efficiency
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by Greg Miller from Tel Aviv. As U S and
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Israeli military commanders met to map out war with Iran.
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They deliberated over how to divide responsibility for an array
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of targets, including missile batteries, military bases, and nuclear sides.
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It was clear from the outset, however, that one grim
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mission would belong to Israel, hunting and killing Iran's leaders.
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Israel has pursued this assignment with rootless efficiency, killing Iran
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Supreme Leader in the opening south the war and more
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than two hundred fifty other quote senior Iranian officials since.
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According to account maintained by the Israeli military, the latest
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blow came Thursday, when Israel said it had killed the
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naval commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The decapitation
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campaign relies on an assassination apparatus that Israel spent decades building,
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but transformed over the past several years to achieve new
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levels of lethal proficiency, according to senior Israeli military and
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intelligence officials. The officials cited a proliferation of sources and
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surveillance capabilities inside Iran regime. Insiders recruited to spy for Israel,
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as well as cyber penetrations of thousands of targets, including
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street cameras, payment platforms, and internet choke points that Iran
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installed to impose communications blackouts on its citizens. These and
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other streams of days are being scoured by what Israeli
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officials described as a new classified artificial intelligence platform program
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to extract clues to leaders, lives and movements. Israel's targeted
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killing tactics, bombs planted months before being detonated, drones capable
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of slipping into apartment windows, and supersonic missiles fired from
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stealth fighter jets have been honed by years of conflict
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in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran. Asked why the mission of
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targeting Iran's leaders was assigned to Israel, a senior Israeli
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security official cited its experience and expertise, saying there was
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a need to target them and we could do it.
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Less clear, however, is whether the ongoing decapitation campaign will
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enable Israel to achieve its core war objectives, eradicating the
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threat of Iran's missiles and proxy forces, blocking its path
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to a nuclear weapon, and weakening the regime to the
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point that it could be toppled. So far, these goals
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seem elusive. Those killed often have been replaced by more
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militant subordinates, and street protests have failed to materialize. Amid
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continued US Israeli bombing and fears of a regime crackdown,
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Senior Israeli officials describe the regime in Iran as battered
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but resilient, stable, and feeling triumphant after withstanding a month
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of strikes by two of the world's most powerful militaries.
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This article was based on interviews with senior security officials
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who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive
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intelligence and operations. Some experts worry that Israel's growing proficiency
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at targeted killings, even when conducted with precision, is creating
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a dynamic of dependency on assassinations and a tendency to
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expound the boundaries of who can be targeted. We have
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taken it too in terms of making it into a
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strategy as opposed to an occasional operational necessity, said Ariel Levite,
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a nuclear policy and Israeli security expert at the Carnegiean
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Dowment for International Peace. The divisions of labor in the
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current conflict create the impression that the United States has
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relied on Israel to do the dirty jobs in the war,
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Levite said, with the United States seeming to adopt a
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stance of we can't kill them, but will be more
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than happy if you do. A US official familiar with
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operations of the campaign said that Israel's responsibility for leadership
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strikes reflects an arrangement in which we're working together, but
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we have our own objectives. US officials said the division
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of duties reflects each side's capabilities and not any legal impediments.
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The United States previously has carried out targeted killings of
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its own, including the twenty twenty assassination of Iran's Codes
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Force commander Cassem Solomini. President Donald Trump has cast the
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strikes on Iran's leaders as a joint undertaking. We killed
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all their leadership, and then they met to choose new leaders,
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and we killed all of them, Trump said to reporters
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last week. He went on to assert that the objective
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of regime change had been met because the leaders are
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all very different than the ones we started off with.
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Israel has accomplished that turnover at a staggering pace, starting
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with a February twenty eighth attack that killed Iyotola Ali Kamanee,
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ending his twenty seven year reign as i Ran Supreme leader,
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as well as the head of Iran's Defense Council, the
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commander of the IRGC, the leader of the country's armed forces,
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the Minister of Defense, and at least a dozen other
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senior lieutenants. The strike has been depicted as a result
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of a singular intelligence breakthrough. In reality, Israeli officials said
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that the country's intelligence services had been monitoring gatherings of
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the Group of Five, a term for Kamonae and his
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closest advisers, for much of the past year. Almost every
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week they gathered, and Israeli security officials said, sometimes in
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different locations, sometimes in more secure settings, sometimes less. The
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intelligence was considered so reliable that the possibility of striking
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the group was raised before the Twelve Day war against
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Iran in June, official said, but set aside because of
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a US Israeli agreement that Iran's nuclear program remained the priority.
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Kamenee was among family members in an above ground floor
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of his residence when he was killed. Israeli officials said
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his son, Mushtaba sents an order to succeed. His father
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was also at the compound and was badly injured, but
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survived in part because he had ventured into an adjoining garden.
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Officials said. The younger kamenee whose wife and daughter were
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reportedly killed in the strike, has had a limitedlyadership role
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since his father's death. He makes decisions from time to time,
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a senior Israeli security official said, and is believed to
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have approved the involvement of Mohammed Bagher Glibov, the speaker
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of Iran's parliament, in preliminary talks with the United States,
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but the surviving Kamaneee appears to be largely isolated in
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an effort to protect him, hitting the group of five
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in an opening barrage had been built into the U
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S Israeli war plan, devised during extensive consultations between senior
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officers with the Israeli Defense Force and their U S
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Central Command counterparts. Official said the timing was altered at
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the last minute as Israel obtained intelligence indicating that a
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meeting originally scheduled for the evening of February twenty eighth,
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had been moved to the morning. By then, the United
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States had positioned an armada of forces at Iran's doorstep,
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with the aircraft and missiles capable of reaching Tehran in minutes,
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but it was Israeli fighter jets departing that country's air
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bases two hours away that unleached a barrage of missiles
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on the leadership complex. The strikes marked the culmination of
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a multi year effort by Israel to acquire up to
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the minute intelligence on the locations and movements of Iran's leaders,
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an effort spearheaded by the Mosad, a spy agency responsible
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for recruiting human sources and covert operations, and Unit eighty
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two hundred, an elite cyber operations branch of IDF intelligence.
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The two agencies sit across a tree lined road from
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one another on the northern outskirts of Tel Aviv, near
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shopping mall and a cinema. The area has a field
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of a sleepy suburb with breezes off the Mediterranean, except
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with bus loads of soldiers, layers of security, and IDF
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eavesdropping towers looming in the distance. Israel spies and their
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u S counterparts, the CIA and n S have collaborated
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for years on covert operations targeting Iran. Including Stucksnet, a
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scheme exposed in twenty ten to sabotage Iran's nuclear enrichment
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efforts with malicious computer code. But many of the intelligence
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capabilities now fuelling leadership strikes came into play only in
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the aftermath of an Iran Israel exchange of cyber attacks
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that erupted five years ago, according to Israeli officials, after
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alleged Iranian offenses caused avages in Israeli water utilities and
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other targets, Israel responded with a wave of retaliatory strikes,
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officials said, snarling traffic by disrupting Pawaran street lights, closing
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gas stations by sabotaging their electronics, and blocking members of
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Iran's busiege a regime backed militia from being able to
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withdraw cash at ATMs. These relatively benign moves masked a
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much broader campaign by Unit eighty two hundred to penetrate
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Iran's digital nervous system. Official said, everything that can be breached,
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we tried to breach, a senior IDEF official said, from
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phone calls to traffic cameras to inner security systems. Among
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the targets, the official said were databases, that Iran security
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forces maintained on facilities meant to function as crisis headquarters
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and fallback locations for leaders in case of attack or uprising.
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Sometimes we saw things from the database of the intelligence wing,
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of the IRGC, the IDEF official set, sometimes the military,
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sometimes the police force. We became more and more able
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to reach in for information. Iran's paranoia and internal suppression
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efforts have also created vulnerabilities. In recent years, Iran began
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forcing the country's communications traffic through centralized hubs so that
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the regime could wield an Internet kill switch, a capability
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it has used since the start of the war to
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block citizen's ability to communicate or get information. But doing
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so meant that regime member's own communications were also being
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routed through the new choke point. A covert intrusion would
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provide a really strong, hidden vantage point for Israeli operatives
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to vacuum up the emails, messages, and calls made by
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regime guards, advisors, and relatives. A former Western intelligence official
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set Iran has moved swiftly to eliminate vulnerabilities. The regime
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cracked down on cell phone used by security guards last
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year amid suspicion that Israel's monitoring of their devices had
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exposed leaders movements. Iran's new precautions were set back to
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Israeli intelligence gathering official set, but only temporarily. Even when
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barred from using a cell phone on the job, you
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will go check your phone the minute your shift ends.
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When officials said nobody can live in a bubble, these
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breaches would be a more limited value if not for
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a new AI platform that Israeli officials said is being
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used to scour mountains of data harvested from Iran for
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clues to the whereabouts and behavior of its leaders, a
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tool that Israeli security officials described as one of the
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most consequential espionage advances of the past decade. AI advances
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have provided Israel with a way to take advantage of
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data that was always available but was previously impossible to process.
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Sedra Zimmitt, who was director of Iran Research at the
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Institute for National Security Studies and previously served in IDF units,
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including eighty two hundred. An early glimpse of these capabilities
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came during last year's twelve day campaign of US and
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Israeli strikes on Iran's nuclear infrastructure. Israel launched simultaneous attacks
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on Iran's military leaders. Israel's intelligence on certain commanders was
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so precise that missile or redirected mid flight based on
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the target's movements, officials said. A June thirteenth strike that
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killed Amir Ali Jasajadei, commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force,
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was adjusted as he moved from an office to a
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nearby apartment. According to a former senior Israeli military officer
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briefed on the operation, the accuracy of Israel's intelligence on
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regime figures at times has appeared less than fool proof.
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In early March, Israel said it had bombed the Calm
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headquarters of Iran's Assembly of Experts at a moment when
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dozens of Assembly members were expected to be gathering to
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discuss to would succeed Kamanei. The building was destroyed, but
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Assembly members were unscathed, having held their meeting online instead
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of in person, and Israeli defense official said the strike
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was intended to prevent the Assembly from meeting, not to
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kill its members. Israel has employed a wide range of
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methods in his assassination operations in recent decades, using motorcycle
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borne assailants to attach explosives to vehicles carrying Iran's nuclear scientists,
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and a bomb hidden in IRGC guest house in Tehran
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in twenty twenty four to kill a visiting KMASK commander.
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The Ladies campaign in Iran, however, has mainly relied on
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air to surface missiles fired from Israeli fighter jets and
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drones that have patrolled the skies constantly since Iran's air
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defenses were crippled. At the war's outset, Israeli officials overseeing
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their campaign acknowledged that its success os at least in
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part to seemingly inexplicable lapses by its targets. Even four
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weeks after the opening attack, senior Israeli officials continuing to
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express amazement the common AE and its top lieutenants opted
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to gather in central Tehran at a moment when negotiations
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had broken off and the United States had completed the
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largest military mobilization to the region in two decades. Many
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of Iran's military leaders had been killed in the opening
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strike of the Twelve Day War eight months earlier. Yet
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Kamanei and others gathered above ground on February twenty eighth,
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rather than scattering across the city, or retreating to a
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warrn of tunnels and bunkers built beneath the Leadership complex
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to insure their survival. Nobody can explain it, said his
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senior is rarely security official with access to intelligence on
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Iran's leaders and their decisions. Every human being on the
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planet would have seen the perfect storm coming. The Orsaroka
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and Tel Aviv and Dan Lamouth and Washington contributed to
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this report. This article is accompanied by photos. The first
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is captioned Policemen watch over a rally for Iyatola Mushtava
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Kamanee as participants whole banners depicting his father, the late
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Ayatola Ali Kamanei this month in Tehran Lahit Salemi a p.
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The next phutto is captioned A woman carries her groceries
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through Tehran's traditional main bazaar, where most shops were closed
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on March tenth, bahits Alemi a p. The photo shows
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a street where all the buildings have shutters down. Only
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three individuals can be seen on the street. The next
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phutto is captioned people walk past a portrait of the
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late Ayatola Ali Kamanee in a Tehran subway station. On
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March thirteenth, Bhiitsalmi a p. The next phetto is captioned
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demonstrators hold posters of Iyatola Moushtaba Kamanie during the annual
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Goods Day or Jerusalem Day rally in support of Palestinians
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in Tehran on March thirteenth, the hiths Alemi a P.
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The photo appears to show a large crowd. In the
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foreground of the photo is a woman holding a photo
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of Iyatola Kamanee in front of her face. The next
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phetto is captioned A rescue worker and a sniffer dog
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searched the rubble of a residential building damage during the
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U S Israeligh air campaign on March twelfth in Tehran
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Bahit a Leimi AP. The next photo is captioned shattered
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windows are seen after US Israeli strike in Tehran on Friday,
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bahiitsee Leimi a P. The photo shows a close up
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of two side by side buildings with several shattered windows.
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The final photo accompanying this item is captioned a desperate call.
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A resident weeps while talking on the phone ear residential
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building that was hit in an air strike on Monday
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morning in the west of Tehran. The U S and
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Israel have continued their joint attack on Tehran that began
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February twenty eighth, and Iran has retaliated with strikes across
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the Persian Gulf region despite suffering heavy damages. The photo
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shows a woman in front of a collapse building, holding
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a phone to her ear. She appears to be crying.
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The next article from today's front page is entitled for
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some this Party is overly partisan. Protests cancelations mar White
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House's Plans for America two fifty Tour by Laura Meckler.
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Education Secretary Linda mc mahon builds her History Rocks tour,
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where she leads students in Cheering for America as a
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non partisan celebration of the nation's two hundred fiftieth birthday.
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But across the country, the programme's ties to a bevy
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of conservative organizations have fostered an unusual level of opposition.
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At least four stops have been canceled, including one in Massachusetts,
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another in Alabama, and two in mc mahon's home state
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of Connecticut after parents, students, and teachers objected to the visits.
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Stops in Wisconsin, New Jersey, and Illinois have been met
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with protests. There is no evidence that the events themselves
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are pushing a political message, but the America two fifty
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Civics Education Coalition that spot answers a tour has produced
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ideological material and is composed of conservative and religious groups
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such as Turning Point USA, Moms for Liberty, and the
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Heritage Foundation. It is led by the America First Policy Institute,
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a pro Trump advocacy group. Liberal groups were not included,
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nor were several prominent non partisan civics groups such as
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Civics Now, an ideologically diverse coalition of more than four
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hundred fifty organizations. I just found it hypocritical. Read Zelner,
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a senior at Murphy High School in Mobile, Alabama, said
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in an interview they tried to say their tour was
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a political while being very publicly supported by strongly political groups.
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After learning that McMahon was coming to Murphy High, Zelner
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contacted a local liberal group for help organizing a protest.
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Before the day was out, the visit had been canceled.
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McMahon traveled to another Alabama school instead. The events typically
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include a short speech delivered by McMahon or another department official,
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along with a history quiz, speeches provided by the Education Department,
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and local coverage of the events suggests the events are
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a nonpartisan celebration of America and its origins. Let's hear
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it for the greatest country on Earth, the United States
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of America, McMahon typically says the two hundred fiftieth anniversary,
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she says, is a reminder of the courage and vision
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that built this nation. An Education Department official, speaking on
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the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to
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speak publicly, said the Department coordinates with a Civics Coalition,
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but does not provide funding to it, direct its work,
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or control its membership or activities. Some have tried to
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brand this tour as radical, dangerous, and partisan in doctrination.
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How absurd, McMahon said in a statement, what you see
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is not politics. It is a shared commitment to our
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nation's story. It speaks volumes about certain voices in our
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society that they would seek to distort a celebration of
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America's two hundred fifieth anniversary and deprive children of this experience. Nonetheless,
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the partisan underpinnings of the program have been on public display.
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In announcing the Civics Coalition Behind the tour, the America
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First Policy Institute leased a video starring with Mahn that
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is a nostalgic cry for a lost past. A voiceover
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recalls a time when education was built on faith, heritage, patriotism,
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and photos shows students praying in class and reciting the
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Pledge of Allegiance. As a narrator bemoans the crumbling of
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a great institution. The screen flashes images including anti war protests,
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flag burning, removal of a Christopher Columbus statue, the sixteen
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nineteen Project, President Barack Obama, and a drag queen reading
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a story under the leadership of President Trump and secretarymanc Man,
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that light will be restored to guide our students and
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our nation into a brighter American future. The video concludes.
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The promotions and the tour reinforce the idea that Americans
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should focus on celebrating all that is good about their country,
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a contrast to critics who say the study of US
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history should center discussion of atrocities such as the nearly
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two hundred and fifty years of enslaving black people and
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brutality and violence against Native Americans. In addition, some of
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the History Rocks events have been connected to partisan actors.
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Members of the conservative partner groups sometimes help recruit schools
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to participate, and Education Department spokeswoman said. In Coltsnack, New Jersey,
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Matt Rooney, executive director of the state's branch of the
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America First Policy Institute, celebrated a local History Rocks event
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by posting a photo of himself with McMahon on social media.
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And in Genoa, Illinois, McMahon and Erica Kirk, chief executive
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of Turning Point USA, both spoke to a conservative student
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group in front of a History Rocks backdrop. McMahon's speech
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included line she uses in History Rocks events. The Education
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Department official said Genoa was not a stop on the tour,
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but locally the two were conflated an unforgettable event. On
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a Wednesday in January, school officials in Fairfield, Connecticut wrote
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to families with the exciting news that McMahon would visit
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McKinley Elementary School that Friday, a promise to be an
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unforgettable experience, The message said. Tracy Rodriguez was one of
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many parents who immediately lodged a complaint with Superintendent Michael Testani.
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This tour is publicly backed by right wing extremist groups.
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I think it's inappropriate to have that in our schools,
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she recalled, telling him. Four hours after the first message
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to parents, the district sent a follow up saying the
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event was canceled. Tistani wrote that he had heard from
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many families who expressed concerns and said they were considering
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keeping their children home. The intent to this visit was
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never to bring politics into our school, but rather to
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highlight our community and participate in a broader national celebration,
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he wrote. We recognize, however, that this did not feel
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that way to many of our families. The Education Department
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tried again this month in Connecticut, this time at Thomaston
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High School. Again there was pushback, this time from community members, teachers,
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and staff. Superintendent Francine Koss wrote to school board members
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that she was canceling the event amid a significant and
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growing level of concern from multiple directions. There was also
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concern from local police they could not manage a protest
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or significant media presence, she wrote. In Sutton, Massachusetts, the
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request from McMahon visit came to the district from Turning Point, USA.
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Superintendent Caleb padget It said in an interview, Padgett said
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she responded that the district would not be involved with
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anything connected to Turning Point, the conservative group founded by
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slain activist Charlie Kirk. After the Education Apartment assured her
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Turning Point was not involved in the program itself, Paget
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said a school visit would be all right, but she
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nixed the assembly because she did not know the content.
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She said she also had concerns about the tourist connections
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to conservative groups, including Turning Point. After some back and forth,
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Paget said the district was told that it would not
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be McMahon visiting, but another official, who was unidentified, Paget
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said she needed to know who it would be. A
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few minutes later, she said she was informed that the
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event was being rescheduled. It never happened. An Education Apartment
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spokesperson said the event was postponed because of weather concerns,
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but online record show there was no bad weather in
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Sutton that day, which Paget confirmed. A Department official later
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visited a charter school in another part of Massachusetts. This
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event has been divisive. In Brookfield, Wisconsin, the History Rocks
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event this month went forward despite a stormer protests, including
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two online petitions and a flood of emails to school
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board members. At a school board meeting the following week,
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parents lined up to register their concerns. One parent said
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the sponsors of the Civics Coalition are widely known for
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promoting politically and ideologically driven interpretations of our nation's history.
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Another question why any political leader was allowed to address
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students during class time. Elmbrook school board member Mary Whacker
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said she received about one hundred ten emails within forty
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eight hours of the event's announcement, a torrent of feedback
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that she said is unusual, to say the least. She
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then noticed that one of the organizations in the Civics
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Coalition is affiliated with a political group that mail postcards
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calling her a dangerous liberal when she ran for school board,
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and she called the superintendent to complain. Whacker said she
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attended the event and found it inoffensive but also very shallow.
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She described the trivia questions as kind of elementary, and
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said she doubts students learned anything that the school had
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not already taught them. The event itself was much ado
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about nothing, she said, But Sam Hughes, another school board member,
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said the history rocks visit was nonparticism and the criticism
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was based on misinformation. The event, he said, showed the
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community we could do something that comes from the federal
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government and not have a partisan been to it. Ike
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Muzakowski was excited when he learned the man wanted to
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visit Chicago Hope Academy, a private Christian school on the
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West side of the city where he serves as president
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and principal. Then he started learning about the controversies the
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tour had engendered elsewhere, and students came to him fearful
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that a senior federal official might bring emigration agents to
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Muzakowski decided to hold the town hall meeting where students
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could express their views. The president of the Black student
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Union spoke firmly against the visit, objecting to McMahon's rhetoric
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on diversity and inclusion. The principal decided to go forward
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with the event. Before the assembly recited the pledge of allegiance,
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Mazakowski said, this is not to show loyalty to an
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administration or a president. Is to the values of this country,
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free speech, liberty. For not saying the pledge of allegiance
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to an individual, he also noted that it was the
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first time students in his school had said the pledge
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of allegiance in years. McMahon later bemoaned that fact in
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one of her speeches for student's event was optional. Mazakowski
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said the black student leader chose not to attend. This
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item is accompanied by photos. The first his caption Education
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Secretary Lynda MacMahon takes questions from reporters after a Department
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of Education History Rocks assembly in January Andrew Craft USA
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Today Network Writers Can Act. The next photo is caption
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Protesters hold signs in front of a Genoa Kingston High
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School in Illinois to oppose a History Rocks tour on
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February fifth, Mark bush Shaw Media. The photo shows a
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number of individuals. Some of the signs they're holding read
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keep hate out of our schools, teach your children well,
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they seek the truth to build a better nation. Give
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piece a chance, Piece is power and this message supports neutrality,
30:38
not censorship. And the final photo accompanying this item is
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captioned students hold up paper flags during a History Rocks
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assembly at Jack Brett High School in Faydeville, North Carolina.
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Andrew Craft USA Today Network Writers Can Act next from
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today's front page an item entitled hud assists Trump in
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crackdown on immigration. President blames undocumented people for housing shortages
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by Rachel Siegel, auditing data on thousands of people sharing
31:09
information with the Department of Homeland Security trying to kick
31:12
undocumented immigrants out of their homes along with the citizens
31:16
they live with. Under President Donald Trump, Washington's top housing
31:20
agency is increasingly prioritizing immigration enforcement. The Trump administration has
31:27
long blamed immigrants for the nation's housing problems, saying undocumented
31:31
people are taking housing and subsidies away from U S citizens,
31:35
But that rhetoric is rapidly turning into action as political
31:39
appointees at the Department of Housing and Urban Development exercise
31:42
their power to decide who can access stable, affordable housing
31:47
and who cannot. By law, undocumented immigrants cannot receive direct
31:52
federal housing benefits such as rental assistance, but undocumented people
31:57
have been able to live with family members who are benefits.
32:01
The Trump administration wants to block these mixed status households
32:05
from housing programs altogether, arguing such moves will make housing
32:09
cheaper and more available to US citizens and limit who
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receives federal assistance. In recent months, HUDD told the nation's
32:18
public housing authorities to check thousands of people who get
32:21
housing aids through a federal service that verifies immigration status
32:25
and make sure their paperwork is on file, a process
32:28
that has been bogged down by data errors. HUD also
32:32
unveiled a proposal that would keep undocumented immigrants and the
32:35
people they live with from receiving housing benefits even if
32:39
the rest of the household includes citizens or children. If enacted,
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the new rule would also require local housing authorities to
32:47
notify DHS if they learn about an undocumented person living
32:51
in federally subsidized housing. The result, people who are eligible
32:56
for rental assistance may have to decide whether it is
32:59
seate from undocumented family members, or entire families may lose
33:04
their aid altogether. Estimates from the National Association of Housing
33:08
and Redevelopment Officials show that for every person ineligible for
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aid who is removed from the Baucher program, about three
33:15
people who are eligible would lose assistance. Meanwhile, much of
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the work implementing HUD's immigration agenda is being imposed on
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public housing authorities, the agencies that manage housing and administer
33:28
funds in their communities. Mark Tell, chief executive of the NAHRO,
33:34
which represents housing officials across the country, said housing agencies
33:38
are ready check whether people lawfully qualify for HUD programs,
33:43
but determining someone's immigration status isn't the housing agency's job.
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Putting their responsibility on them shifts immigration enforcement away from
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the agencies that are meant to handle it and actually
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puts eligible families at risk of losing their housing assistance.
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Theal said housing agencies should focus on what they do best,
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providing homes for their communities. They should not be asked
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to act as immigration enforcers. On top of that, HUD
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Secretary Scott Turner has said removing undocumented immigrants from housing
34:16
programs is crucial to protect taxpayer funds, in force existing laws,
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and insure Americans are the ones receiving welfare benefits. He
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has pointed to lengthy weight lists across the country and
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argued that immigration is driving up housing costs. To achieve
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lower prices, policymakers must work to increase supply and shrink
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the number of people looking for housing, HUD says. HUD
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has described the scale of the problem in large terms.
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Earlier this year, the Department said there were almost two
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hundred thousand people whose eligibility for housing benefits needed a
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second check. HUDD also said there were some twenty five
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thousand deceased tenants and almost six thousand in elevation non
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American tenants, referring generally to people who are undocumented. Turner
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has said that HUD will leave no stone unturned and
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that the Department is proud to collaborate with the HS.
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Under President Trump's leadership, the days of illegal aliens, ineligibles,
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and frausters gaming the system and writing the coattails of
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American taxpayers are over, Turner said in a statement to
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The Washington Post, HUD's proposed rule will guarantee that all
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residents in HUD funded housing are eligible tenants. We have
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zero tolerance for pushing aside hard working US citizens while
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enabling others to exploit decades old loopholes. Lauren Biss, acting
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Assistant Secretary at DHS, said it is essential for agencies
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to share information so officials can identify who is in
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the United States, neutralize any threats to public safety, and
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identify any public benefits that are being used by undocumented immigrants.
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She said that federal service through which people's immigration information
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can be checked, is part of a government wide effort
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to spot abuse and exploitation of public benefits. Only authorized
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law enforcement personnel with proper training perform immigration enforcement actions.
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Biss said, if you are an illegal immigrant, you should
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leave now. She said, the gravy train is over. The
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focus on immigration has alarmed public housing authorities, policy experts,
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and career staffers, who say HUT has allocated disproportionate time
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and resources toward immigration issues. Of the more than four
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point four million households and HUT programs, only about twenty
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thousand are mixed status. In those instances, an undocumented grandparent
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might live with citizen grandchildren or other relatives who are
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eligible for housing benefits. Local officials fear funding cuts or
36:53
lawsuits if they don't comply. Housing experts and economists say
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the moves won't solve persistent in housing shortages, build more
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homes or lower housing costs, and in interviews, public housing
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authorities told the Post they are being cast by administration
37:10
officials as having enabled alleged waste, fraud and abuse, even
37:14
while they already follow the rules. More than a dozen experts,
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speaking on the condition of anonymity because they feared retribution
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echoed those concerns. They include officials from five public housing
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authorities of varying locations and sizes, employees of national industry groups,
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career hut staffers, and other housing policy experts. In one
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of hundreds of public comments on hudson new proposal, known
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as the Mixed Status Rule, the California Association of Housing
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Authorities so the change would fundamentally alter their relationship between
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housing providers and the people they serve. The California group
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added this shift undermines trust, chills participation by eligible families,
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and entail Engle's public housing authorities in enforcement functions that
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Congress did not assign to them. The administration's immigration agenda
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is shaping the missions of other agencies too. The Education
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Department opened civil rights investigations into universities for offering scholarships
38:17
targeting undocumented students. The administration eyed in executive order that
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could have required banks to report more information on their
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customer's immigration status before delaying the plan. Amid Wall Street pushback,
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the Internal Revenue Service improperly shared thousands of people's confidential
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tax information with immigration enforcement officials. Hud moved quickly to
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share more data with the HS, and staffers from the U.
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S DOGE Service sought out information that could help remove
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immigrants from housing. The new HYD rule would overhaul a
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decade's old rule that has allowed people who aren't eligible
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for rental assistance to stay with family members who are. Normally,
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aid is distributed based on how many people in the
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household are eligible. For example, if one undocumented parent lives
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with three people who are eligible, the family gets assistants
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covering those three people and everyone can stay together. If
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HUD's proposal is enacted, it would block any new mixed
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status households from entering rental assistance programs. It would also
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force mixed status households already receiving benefits to leave their
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housing or split from undocumented family members. It would also
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require public housing authorities to screen applicants through the federal
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service that checks immigration information. Almost eighty thousand people would
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have to separate from a household member or lose their
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rental assistance under the rule change. The left leaning Center
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on Budget and Policy priority estimates that includes fifty two thousand,
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six hundred citizens who are eligible for AID and twenty
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four thousand, three a hundred non citizens who aren't. It
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also includes thirty five thousand, four hundred citizen children whose
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housing could be in jeopardy already. Other parts of HUD's
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immigration folkers are falling on local housing authorities. The department
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has repeatedly said about two hundred thousand people have incomplete
40:20
or missing documents showing their eligibility for housing aid. So
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in January, HUDs sent more than three thousand public housing
40:27
authorities extensive lists of their tenants who were flagged and
40:31
needed a second check. Housing authorities were told to mine
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their lists, which were often hundreds of names long, to
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correct any errors, and send the audits back within thirty days,
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a breakneck pace that many housing authorities said was virtually
40:47
impossible to meet. Some of HUD's instructions were also vague
40:51
and contradictory, the people from the five housing authorities and
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related industry groups said, making the deadline even more fraud
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Some local officials also wondered if they had legal standing
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to go through sensitive and personal data. HUDD also appeared
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to make no effort to streamline or clean up DHS
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and HUD data sets that weren't sinking with one another
41:14
and had existing glitches to begin with. The housing authorities
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said local teams quickly realized the vast majority of people
41:23
who turned up on the lists were redundant or flagged
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in error. Some names were double or triple counted, some
41:30
people had become citizens over time. Other discrepancies boiled down
41:34
to basic input errors, missing middle initials, errant hyphens, or
41:40
social security numbers off by one digit. In certain instances,
41:44
local officials had to call tenants to ask about their paperwork.
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After a few weeks of work, many of the housing
41:51
authorities had much shorter list of names, sometimes in the
41:54
single digits, that they couldn't resolve. The housing authorities and
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other experts cald The Post that it was hard to
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see how HUD concluded that two hundred thousand people needed
42:05
another check when the true number appeared much smaller. They
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wondered if HUD would start using a revise count. After
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the deadline for housing agencies to hand back corrected lists
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came and went and asked about the figures, HUT officials said.
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The new audit cross references HUT data with information from
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US Citizenship and Immigration Services. Officials said they were still
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in the process of going through the responses and that
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some housing authorities were late in sending in their complete
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or updated lists. A revised count has yet to come.
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During a speech in mid March, Turner described the number
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of people he said needed another look two hundred thousand.
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This autumn is accompanied by a photo captioned the Department
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of Housing and Urban Development in Washington in twenty nineteen
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asterd Ricken for The Washington Post. Next an item entitled
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Trump shows off renderings and defends ball room plan by
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Dan Diamond and Jonathan Edwards. Speaking to reporters Sunday night
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aboard Air Force Wine, President Donald Trump began with an
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update about hostilities and Iran, but soon pivoted to a
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different priority, is planned four hundred million dollar a White
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House ball room. For five minutes, the President displayed new
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renderings handed to him by Bill Pulty, a top administration
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housing official, as he again made the case for his
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controversial addition to the White House grounds. I'm so busy
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that I don't have time to do this. I am
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fighting wars and other things, Trump told reporters. But this
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is very important because this is going to be with
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us for a long time, and it's going to be
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I think it will be the greatest ball room anywhere
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in the world. The new renderings revealed some changes to
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the ballroom's design, including removal of stairs on its south
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side that some observers had criticized as extraneous. Trump also
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briefly alluded to the military's role in the project, which
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a president has said he hopes to complete by next year.
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The military's building a massive complex under the ballroom, Trump said.
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White House officials have said the underground portion of the
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project is a matter of national security, but have declined
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to offer further details. It has long been known, however,
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that the area underneath the former East Wing of the
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White House contains secure facilities of president and staff members
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could use in an emergency. The ballroom has been a
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top priority for Trump, who rapidly demolished the East Wing
44:35
last year to make way for it. He has solicited
44:38
millions of dollars from private companies to pay for the project,
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and he frequently mentions it in speeches and unscripted remarks.
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It has proved less popular with voters. Polls have found
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fifty eight percent of Americans said they oppose tearing down
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the East Wing to build the ballroom. According to an economist,
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Yugov poll conducted last month what twenty five percent say
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they supported it. Members of the public sent more than
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thirty five thousand comments about the project to a federal
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commission reviewing the project, and a Washington Post analysis found
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more than ninety seven percent of those comments were critical
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of the president's plans. The design has been panned by
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architects and historic preservationists, who say that the ninety thousand
45:23
square foot edition is too large and will overshadow the
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fifty five thousand square foot White House. James mc crurry,
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the second Trump's first architect on the project, clashed with
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the president over his plans to enlarge the ballroom, then
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was replaced. The National Trust for Historic Preservation, which Congress
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charged with helping to preserve historic buildings, has sued to
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stop the project, saying that Trump failed to receive congressional authorization.
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U S District Judge Richard Leon is weighing whether to
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halt the project. The New York Times on Sunday wrote
45:58
about concerns of the ballrooms design, an article that appeared
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to irk the President, who mentioned it several times. The
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Board Air Force one the White House has said that
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it plans to start above ground construction on the ball
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room as soon as April. Whether that work begins could
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be determined by what happens this week. A federal commission
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now led by Trump's allies, is scheduled to vote Thursday
46:21
on whether to approve the project, the final procedural hurdle
46:25
for an effort to dramatically remake one of the most
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revered symbols of American power and democracy. Leon, an appointee
46:33
of President George W. Bush, has signaled his ruling on
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the National Trust's lawsuit could come as soon as this
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week too. The judge has been skeptical of the Trump
46:43
administration's arguments that the president had the authority to tear
46:47
down the East Wing to build his planned ball room.
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He has also criticized Trump's reliance on donations from private
46:53
companies to fund the project, saying and amounted to an
46:57
end run around congressional oversight. Major corporations, including Amazon, Google,
47:03
and Palanteer, which have donated to the project collectively have
47:07
billions of dollars in contracts before the administration. Amazon founder
47:12
Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post. Leon has said that
47:16
he expects his eventual ruling to be appealed potentially to
47:20
the Supreme Court a board air force one. Trump only
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made a glancic acknowledgment of the quote stupid lawsuit threatening
47:28
his project. The president instead talked in depth about the
47:31
ballroom's features as he flipped through six renderings that he
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said he had commissioned that day. A lot of people
47:38
are giving it really good reviews, the president said. The
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new designs provided more detail on the ballroom, including a
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close up image of its columns, which Trump said would
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be hand carved. They'll be Corinthian, which is considered the best,
47:53
most beautiful by far. Trump said his latis acknowledgment of
47:57
his preference for that style of columns. The renderings also
48:01
removed a prominent staircase that had led from the ballroom
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south portico onto the White House's south lawn. Trump had
48:08
repeatedly shared renderings featuring that staircase, and a federal commission
48:13
that Trump packed with his allies approved a design last
48:16
month that included the staircase. We took the stairs out
48:20
that were on the south side and really replaced them
48:23
with these stairs, Trump said, referring to what he called
48:26
a fire stair next to the portico. So you have
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an open porch, and you have the closed porch under
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the columns overlooking the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial, and
48:36
the Lincoln Memorial. Credits on the renderings said they were
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produced by Shalambarana's associates, the firm handling the ballroom project.
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Asked about the timing of the project, Trump repeated his
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frequent refrain were head of schedule and under budget. Even
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after moving off the ballroom topic, the President found a
48:56
way to relate reporters questions about Iran, such as whether
49:00
he planned to send US troops into the country back
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to its construction project. Just like we're a head of
49:06
schedule in the barroom, in a much bigger way, we're
49:09
a head of schedule with Iran, Trump said. This article
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is accompanied by photos. The first is captioned President Donald
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Trump holds a rendering Sunday of the planned White House
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Ballroom's Corinthian columns, one of many features he has picked
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for the project. Elizabeth Franz, Reuters. The other photo accompanying
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this project is captured Trump displays the quote fire stare
49:33
that has been added to the ballroom's latest renderings. Elizabeth Franz,
49:37
Reuters and the final item from today's from page is
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entitled white supremacists are cited by Trump officials by Justin
49:46
Juvenal Alexander Porter. Morse, a Confederate officer during the Civil
49:51
War and a Louisiana attorney, argued for legalized segregation in
49:55
the landmark eighteen ninety six Supreme Court case that established
49:59
the Separate but Equal doctrine and buttressed Jim Crow laws.
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He is again playing a key role in a monumental
50:06
case to be argued before the Justice's Wednesday. The Trump
50:10
administration has tapped Morse as an authority in its push
50:13
to upend long settled law that virtually everyone born in
50:17
the United States is a citizen. Over a century ago,
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Morse was a man a trio of thinkers who spearheaded
50:25
a failed effort steeped in anti Black and anti Chinese
50:29
racism to erace birthright citizenship. The Trump administration is reviving
50:34
their arguments to make its case today. Some legal scholars
50:38
say the administration is citing arguments built on a racist foundation.
50:43
Justin Sadowski, an attorney for the Chinese American Legal Defense
50:47
Alliance or KALDA, wrote in a Friend of the Court
50:50
brief Lucy Sallier, a University of New Hampshire history professor
50:55
who has written on Morse and others, said she was
50:58
struck that the Trump administration had chosen to elevate those
51:01
figures and their ideas. If you know the history and
51:05
the broader context of what they were trying to achieve,
51:08
it does ring alarm bells. The case, which could redefine
51:12
who is considered an American, centers on the citizenship clause
51:16
of the fourteenth Amendment, which grants citizenship to quote all
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persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject
51:24
to the jurisdiction thereof end quote. When asked for comment
51:29
about relying on Morse and its compatriots, the Trump administration
51:33
pointed to a brief in which it wrote, this Court
51:36
has repeatedly cited their work in other contexts. Some legal
51:40
scholars also argued their stance on birthright citizenship was shared
51:44
by a number of prominent politicians who did not have
51:47
racist views. The Trump administration argues the fourteenth Amendment does
51:52
not apply to people in the country illegally or on
51:55
temporary visas. If the High Court agrees and reverses the
51:59
law long held interpretation, it could render hundreds of thousands
52:04
of children born to immigrant parents stateless. The Supreme Court
52:08
has the opportunity to review the Fourteenth Amendment's citizenship clause
52:13
and restore the meaning of citizenship in the United States
52:16
to its original public meaning. White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson
52:20
said in a statement, this case will have enormous consequences
52:24
for the security of all Americans. The Fourteenth Amendment was
52:28
ratified after the Civil War to ensure that the formerly
52:32
enslaved and their children could become citizens. The amendment overturned
52:36
the Supreme Court's infamous dread Scott decision that denied citizenship
52:41
to black people. Trump Administration attorneys citemrs in their Supreme
52:45
Court brief to argue the disputed idea that commentators in
52:49
the nineteenth century widely agreed that the Constitution excludes the
52:54
children of foreigners transiently within the United States from qualifying
52:58
for citizenship. In addition to opposing birthright citizenship, Morris also
53:04
advocated for limiting the other Reconstruction amendments that abolished slavery
53:08
and guaranteed black people the right to vote. The campaign
53:12
against birthright citizenship also relied on rising anti migrant feelings.
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The push backfired in eighteen ninety eight when the Supreme
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Court ruled in United States the wonkim ark that a
53:24
man born to Chinese immigrants in San Francisco was a U.
53:27
S citizen, in shrining birthright citizenship as the law of
53:31
the land. Thousands of Chinese settled in Western States during
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the latter half of the eighteen hundreds to work on
53:38
the railroads, as miners and to do other jobs. The
53:42
prospect of the Fourteenth Amendment would extend citizenship to the
53:45
children of those emigrants unsettled many Americans. Francis Wharton, a
53:50
prominent legal scholar in the late eighteen hundreds and State
53:53
Department official, was one Wharton attempted to formulate a legal
53:58
rationale that would allow children born to European immigrants to
54:01
gain citizenship, but deny it to those of Chinese migrants.
54:05
He posited that a child's citizenship should be determined by
54:09
parents nationality rather than birthplace. Wharton argued that people should
54:14
have a permanent home in the United States or be
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domiciled here for their children to be eligible for citizenship.
54:21
He wrote that the Chinese were insufficiently civilized and could
54:24
never obtain their proper status, because they regard themselves simply
54:29
as strangers and sojourners. To admit such rights to an
54:33
emigrating nation would be not merely to establish a foreign sovereign,
54:37
but a foreign barbarism within our national domain, Wharton wrote.
54:42
He added later that the Fourteenth Amendments phrase subject to
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the jurisdiction thereof, which was included to bar children of
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diplomats and other officials who owed allegiance to a foreign
54:52
country from becoming citizens, prevented children born to Chinese immigrants
54:57
from obtaining the status. Much xenophobic ideas gained traction. A
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San Francisco attorney named George D. Collins pushed the Justice
55:06
Department to take up a test case challenging birthright citizenship,
55:11
writing Chinese immigrants were utterly unfit, wholly incompetent to be
55:16
American citizens. His career later ended in scandal after he
55:20
was accused of bigamy and perjury. When the government argued
55:25
to the High Court that Wang Kim Mark was not
55:28
entitled to citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment, Collins assisted with
55:32
its filing and wrote a Friend of the Court brief,
55:35
are Chinese children born in this country to share with
55:38
the descendants of the patriots of the American Revolution, the
55:42
exalted qualification of being eligible to the presidency of the nation.
55:46
Collins and the Solicitor General wrote in a cosign brief.
55:50
If so, then barely there has been a most degenerate
55:54
departure from the patriotic ideals of our forefathers, And surely
55:58
in that case, American citizenizenship is not worth having. The
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Justice is ruled. The Fourteenth Amendment applied to Wankham Mark
56:06
and virtually all people born in the United States the
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President has stood for over a century and was infrequently
56:14
challenged before Trump issued his executive order on the first
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day of his second term. Trump instructed government agencies to
56:22
stop issuing citizenship documentation to children if neither parent is
56:26
a U. S citizen or the mother is on a
56:29
lawful but temporary visa to study, work, or visit. The
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controversial policy is one of the central pieces of Trump's
56:37
anti immigration agenda. Solicitor General d John Sower argues in
56:42
his petition to the Supreme Court that the citizenship clause
56:46
applied to the recently enslaved and their children, not children
56:50
of temporary visitors. Are those here illegally, Sawyer wrote, birthright
56:55
citizenship is a powerful incentive for illegal migration, presents national
57:00
security concerns because some people illegally enter the United States
57:04
to carry out hostile acts, and facilitates birth tourism foreigners
57:09
traveling to the United States to have babies so their
57:11
children can become US citizens. Sam Erman, a law professor
57:16
at the University of Michigan, and Sawyer, said in interviews
57:20
the Trump administration's arguments echoes those put forward in the
57:23
first push to end birthright citizenship. Like Wharton, the Trump
57:28
administration says in its brief a child citizenship is dependent
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on the parents nationality, not birth in the United States.
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The government attorneys asserted parents must be domiciled in the
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United States for their offspring to qualify for citizenship. The
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Trump administration, like Wharton, also highlights a Fourteenth Amendment phrase
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subject to the jurisdiction thereof, saying it disqualifies children of
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illegal migrants and temporary visitors from becoming citizens because they
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can't demonstrate the necessary political lead agents to the United States.
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The phrase of Oaks. I was really struck reading the
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government's brief, how familiar it seem from that period Erman
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said of the late eighteen hundreds, the government argument, to
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a large extent, relies on Morse and Wharton and people
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who are repeating what they said uncritically. If you strip
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that out of the government's brief, it looks really weak.
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Due to the constraints of time, we will be unable
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to complete this item. This concludes the reading of the
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Washington Post for to Day, Tuesday, March thirty first, twenty
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