January 12, 2018


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“BUT IT'S A STEP, AND A SIGN, THAT WE CAN GET THERE.” HERE IS A VERY NICE STORY ABOUT RACE IN AMERICA, WHICH MAKES ME PROUD OF THESE CHILDREN, AND HAPPIER ABOUT THE HUMAN SPECIES. IT ALSO SHOWS ME THAT SOME SCHOOLS IN SOME PLACES ARE TEACHING PEACE. THAT’S A BUMPER STICKER I SAW ONCE ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO – “TEACH PEACE.”

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By STEVE HARTMAN CBS NEWS January 12, 2018, 6:59 PM
Students who took couple's honeymoon story to heart take action

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POCONOS, Pa. - At the Mount Airy Resort in the Poconos of Pennsylvania, reverend [sic] Gilbert Caldwell and his wife, Grace, arrived recently for their second honeymoon. They were greeted warmly -- a sharp contrast to their first visit, 60 years earlier.

In 1957 they were married in North Carolina, then drove eight hours only to be turned back for being black.

"First they pretended I didn't have a reservation, where I actually brought a copy," Gilbert said. "Then of course they said, 'but if we said yes, our guests would be very unhappy.'"

They had to stay at a black-owned hunting lodge instead.

"Men with these big guns," Grace said. "Not what we were planning on."

Prodded partly by that experience, Gilbert immersed himself in the civil rights movement, working side by side with Martin Luther King Jr.

Today, he speaks about the movement, which is how he ended up at Bear Tavern Elementary in Titusville, New Jersey, last year. He told the honeymoon story, as he'd done a hundred times before. But for whatever reason, a group of fifth graders really took it to heart.

"At the end of the story I was like, 'that's just terrible,'" one student said. "It was really heartbreaking," added another. "I feel like this is the worst thing that someone could do to someone."

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Students were touched by the Caldwells' story, and decided to do something about it. CBS NEWS

Even months after the Caldwells' visit, the kids are still affected, which is why each fifth grader wrote a letter to Mount Airy. One said the Caldwells "made me think about not only standing up for myself, but standing up for others and fixing mistakes that were made in the world."

In closing, the kids requested an all-expense-paid honeymoon redo -- which they got.

"It makes me feel really good inside because we know that even though we're just kids, we made an impact on the world," one student said.

"It was really magnificent to know that kids cared that much," Grace said.

The original Mount Airy was torn down years ago, so the couple went to a new building with new owners, who were so impressed with the kids that they wanted to help make it right. Obviously, this does not make up for decades of racial injustice. But it's a step, and a sign, that we can get there.

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THIS IS ONE OF THOSE NEWS STORIES THAT SHOCKED ME. THE PHOTOGRAPH OF ADAM LANZA WAS PART OF THE REASON FOR THAT. HE LITERALLY “LOOKED” MENTALLY DISTURBED. THE EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE WASN’T HEALTHY AND NORMAL. IT WAS DAZED AND TORTURED. THE SAD THING ABOUT LANZA IS THAT HE WAS UNDER THE CARE OF A PSYCHIATRIST, BUT HE DIDN’T LIKE TAKING THE MEDICATION AND HIS MOTHER ACTUALLY ALLOWED HIM TO STOP THE DRUG. IT’S POETIC JUSTICE THAT THE FIRST PERSON HE KILLED THAT DAY WAS HIS MOTHER WITH ONE OF HER NUMEROUS GUNS – VERY DARK POETRY, THOUGH.

THERE IS A GRAVE IGNORANCE IN THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IN A NUMBER OF WAYS, BUT OUR UNAWARENESS OF THE INNER LIFE OF A PERSON IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS. WE DON’T, IN SO MANY CASES, ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND INSANITY AT ALL. THAT’S WHY INSANE PEOPLE END UP ON DEATH ROW, WHEN THEY SHOULD BE IN A LOCKED WARD HOSPITAL INSTEAD.

IT IS ALSO WHY WHEN A GREAT MANY POLICE OFFICERS ARE CONFRONTED BY SYMPTOMS OF INSANITY THEY KNOW VERY LITTLE ABOUT HOW TO DEAL WITH IT AND FREQUENTLY KILL THE PERSON. SEVERAL NEWS ARTICLES THIS YEAR REPORTED ON AN ENLIGHTENMENT THAT IS OCCURRING IN POLICE DEPARTMENTS. THEY ARE TRAINING AT LEAST A CORE GROUP OF THE OFFICERS TO EFFECTIVELY INTERVENE RATHER THAN RESORT TO THE ULTIMATE FORCE.

THE OTHER HORRIFYING THING, OF COURSE, WAS THE SHEER NUMBER OF THE DEAD AND THE FACT THAT THEY WERE IN THE SIX-YEAR OLD RANGE. THE CRUELTY OF THAT IS MORE THAN I CAN BEAR TO DWELL ON FOR LONG. THE PEOPLE IN THAT TOWN WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN.

THE DELAY IN THE OFFICIAL POLICE REPORT IS UNFORTUNATE, AND THEY DON’T REALLY EXPLAIN WHY, CITING A LACK OF RESOURCES. IT SOUNDS AS THOUGH THEY ARE TRYING TO IMPROVE AS A GROUP OF OFFICERS, HOWEVER. WHAT CONCERNS ME MOST ABOUT A LOT, NOT A FEW, OF THESE TROUBLED DEPARTMENTS IS THAT THEY AREN’T AS CONCERNED ABOUT IT AS SANDY HOOK SEEMS TO BE. I OFTEN TALK ABOUT THE LAXITY OF SUPERVISION AND TRAINING IN POLICE DEPARTMENTS, BUT THIS CASE DOESN’T STRIKE ME AS BEING OF THAT TYPE. THEY SEEM TO HAVE BEEN TRULY OVERWHELMED BY THE ENORMITY OF THE SITUATION, AS MOST OF US CERTAINLY WOULD BE.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/long-awaited-review-on-sandy-hook-police-response-released/
By CRIMESIDER STAFF CBS/AP January 12, 2018, 7:35 PM
Long-awaited review on Sandy Hook police response released

Photo provided by the Connecticut State Police shows the exterior of the Sandy Hook Elementary School following the December 14, 2012 shooting rampage. HANDOUT / GETTY

HARTFORD, Conn. -- After the 2012 school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, police officials not involved in the investigation and "dignitaries" were allowed into the building and potentially contaminated the crime scene by stepping on bullet casings and glass shards that had yet to be processed as evidence, according to a report state police released Friday on their response to the mass shooting.

The long-awaited report concludes state police handled the response effectively, but it recommends improvements to protecting crime scene integrity, dealing with victims' families and other issues. A 2013 report on the response by Newtown police said that department responded rapidly and followed policy.

Gunman Adam Lanza killed his mother at their Newtown home before shooting his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012, and killing 20 first-graders, six educators and himself. Investigators never found a clear motive but said Lanza suffered mental health problems and was obsessed with mass shootings.

"The unprecedented nature of this incident posed numerous challenges," the state police report says. "The unique dynamics of this tragedy tasked the agency's resources and tested the capacity and capabilities of individuals and units alike. ... Had it not been for the heroic actions of the teachers, school staff and the response force, the number of victims could have been higher."

The report does not specifically address why it took five years to complete. Other "after-action" reports, including those written after mass shootings at an Orlando, Florida, nightclub, the Washington Navy Yard and a building in San Bernardino, California, were finished about a year after the killings.

The delay in the Sandy Hook case is unusual, John DeCarlo, a former police chief who is a professor of criminal justice at the University of New Haven, told CBS News reporter Graham Kates last month.

"In any of the instances that I have ever heard of, when something like this happens, and there's a major incident like this, there is an after-action," DeCarlo said. "Now when you ask is five years a long time? Yeah, that's a real long time."

Former State Police Col. Danny Stebbins, who before his retirement in 2014 oversaw the investigation into the Dec. 14, 2012 shooting, told Kates in December that a draft of the after-action report was completed at least two and half years ago. A spokeswoman for the Connecticut State Police confirmed at the time that a draft was completed, but that it had yet to be cleared by commissioner Dora Schriro.

The spokeswoman said the agency wasn't able to give a timetable and didn't provide a reason for the delay.

The document recommends that future reports be completed by an outside entity and released in phases to ensure a "rapid dissemination of lessons learned in tactics and response," while leaving longer-term procedural issues for future updates.

The report also recommends that "appropriate agency resources and support are allocated to the completion of a thorough and timely" report.

"Some personnel indicated they were aware of the (report) process but felt reluctant to contribute," it notes.

One recommendation is to limit crime scene access to authorized personnel. The report says "uninvolved" state police command staff, members of outside agencies and "dignitaries" were allowed into the school in the hours and days after the shooting, potentially contaminating the crime scene and "unnecessarily exposing personnel to the disturbing scene."

"Relevant evidence was stepped on, including bullet casings and glass shards, which had yet to be processed and properly documented," the report says.

The report also recommends training and developing a checklist for notifying families of the deaths of their loved ones. In Newtown, troopers notified the families of the victims "professionally and with compassion," but some mistakes were made, the report says. In one case, a trooper did not know the correct relationship between a victim and the family member he was notifying, it says.

Establishment of a statewide family liaison program also is recommended. After the school shooting, family liaison officers were assigned to each victim's family and were critically important to coordinating resources to the families, the report says.

Michele Gay, whose daughter, Josephine, was one of the 20 children killed, said she hopes state police learn from both what they did well and what they were not prepared to handle in the aftermath of the tragedy.

She said her family and others appreciated being assigned a trooper to act as a liaison who kept them informed and relayed their needs to authorities. But, she said, it was clear there were no protocols or procedures in place for handling this type of situation.

"We were very fortunate that they were such principled, trustworthy and loyal individuals that we were working with at the state police," she said. "But I feel a lot of them look back and wish they didn't have to be making it up as they were going along, that they had more mental health support in terms of how to communicate with families and deal with land mines that they might encounter."

Gay said it was "heartbreaking" to hear about problems with the crime scene access, including the bullet casings being stepped on.

"Those things have to be part of planning ahead of time, so it's not even a question or decision to make in the middle of chaos," she said.

The report urges state police officials to consider mandatory counseling for major crime detectives and other personnel who regularly deal with traumatic situations.

A state police spokeswoman said many of the recommendations already have been implemented or are being implemented.

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“MR. TRUMP ON FRIDAY MORNING TWEETED THAT HE HAD USED "TOUGH LANGUAGE," BUT DENIED HE HAD UTTERED “THE PROFANE PHRASE.” REPUBLICAN SENATORS PERDUE AND COTTON “DON’T RECALL.” TRUMP SAYS THAT IT WAS “MADE UP BY DEMOCRATS.” UNFORTUNATELY FOR HIM, HE MISSED HIS CHANCE TO CALL IT “FAKE NEWS!” DURBIN, MEANWHILE, CHALLENGES HIS VERACITY, SAYING “HE SAID THOSE HATEFUL THINGS, AND HE SAID THEM REPEATEDLY." AS A MEANS OF FUTURE SELF-DEFENSE, TRUMP SPEAKS HERE ABOUT RECORDING ALL OF HIS MEETINGS FROM NOW ON. I, PERSONALLY, WOULD LOVE TO SEE THAT, BUT THE RECORDINGS SHOULD BE MADE PUBLIC, JUST LIKE THOSE COP CAM VIDEOS. THE COURTS IN SOME PLACES ARE WORKING ON LAWS THAT WOULD NOT PERMIT SUCH VIDEO FROM BEING SHOWN. THAT’S THE KIND OF THING IN THIS COUNTRY THAT I TEND TO CALL EVIL. DOING SOMETHING TERRIBLE IS ONE THING, BUT HAVING THE LAW BACK THEM UP IN IT IS UNACCEPTABLE.

JUSTICE HAS BEEN SERVED SINCE FERGUSON IN A GOOD MANY CASES, DUE TO THE EXTREME PREVALENCE OF THOSE HANDY DANDY LITTLE SMART PHONES. THEN THE THING TO DO IS TO UPLOAD THEM ON THE INTERNET OR TAKE THEM TO THE SPLC, ACLU, THE NAACP, THE WASHINGTON POST OR NEW YORK TIMES, OR TO A GOOD CRUSADING LAWYER. NO. DON’T TURN THEM IN TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. IT ISN’T THAT ALL POLICE OFFICERS ARE DIRTY, BUT THAT TOO MANY OF THEM ARE. BLACK PEOPLE ARE AWARE OF THAT. THAT’S WHY THEY WON’T TALK TO POLICE.

OUR PROBLEM COMES WHEN PEOPLE WHO REALLY DO DISLIKE OR EVEN HATE DIFFERENT SKIN COLORS, EYE SHAPES, ACCENTS, RELIGIONS, POLITICAL VIEWS AND OTHER SUCH PERSONAL DIFFERENCES HAPPEN TO "RULE THE ROOST." THE RESULT FOR LIFE IN THOSE SITUATIONS IS TRULY "UNAMERICAN." REMEMBER, IT IS SIMPLY NOT POSSIBLE TO WALL OFF NEIGHBORHOODS, COUNTIES, STATES, AND NATIONS AS PEOPLE DID IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES. WE'LL HAVE TO LEARN TO LIVE IN PEACE. THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE WALKING THE EARTH NOW FOR THAT. IT ALSO ISN’T A DESIRABLE WAY TO LIVE. I NOT ONLY DISLIKE IT, I DON’T UNDERSTAND IT.

BESIDES, IF TRUMP WANTS THE WORLD TO RESPECT AMERICA AND THINK WE’RE “GREAT,” HE NEEDS TO DO MORE THAN SPENDING MORE ON MILITARY THINGS AND DEMONIZING PEOPLE OF COLOR. THAT WILL MAKE SOME PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD APPRECIATE HIM AND BY EXTENSION, US, MORE, BUT NOT THE MORE EDUCATED, HUMANE INDIVIDUALS AND THE PROSPEROUS, EDUCATED, ADVANCED AND DEMOCRATIC NATIONS.

AND IF TRUMP DID ACTUALLY SAY “TAKE THEM OUT,” -- WHICH HE DENIES – THAT IS EERILY SIMILAR TO HITLER’S SOLUTION TO “THE JEWISH PROBLEM.” IF THAT IS A LIE ON THE PART OF SENATOR DURBIN, THEN SHAME ON HIM, BUT I TEND TO BELIEVE THAT HE DIDN’T LIE ABOUT TRUMP. HE JUST WASN’T COWARDLY ENOUGH TO COVER UP THE PRESIDENT’S LANGUAGE LIKE THE OTHERS DID. TRUMP’S WORDS ARE BAD, BUT HIS MALICE IS WORSE, BOTH DANGEROUS AND DESPICABLE. I HAD HEARD ON ONE REPORT YESTERDAY THAT SC SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM TURNED TO THE PRESIDENT AND CRITICIZED HIM TO HIS FACE. THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE BACKS THAT UP, BUT HE REFUSES TO LAMBAST TRUMP OVER IT. SEE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE ADDRESSING THAT. THE MAIN CBS STORY IS BELOW.

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"CHAIN MIGRATION"*

SEE: HTTPS://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/CHAIN_MIGRATION ABOUT THE LONG AND STORIED HISTORY OF IMMIGRATION TO AMERICA – “IRISH NEED NOT APPLY,” ETC. – THEY WERE WHITE, BUT THEY WERE SPAT UPON ANYWAY. CHAIN MIGRATION’S NOT A NEW IDEA OR PHRASE, ACCORDING TO WIKIPEDIA. THAT ARTICLE IS VERY INTERESTING. ANY OF YOU WHO WANT TO UNDERSTAND HOW WE BECAME WHO WE ARE CAN READ IT FOR INFORMATION AND PLEASURE.

THE PROCESS OF CHAIN MIGRATION IS INEVITABLE WHEREVER BETTER OPPORTUNITIES EXIST. IT’S LIKE A MAGNET WITH IRON FILINGS LITERALLY JUMPING ONTO IT, AS THOUGH ALIVE. TO ME IT GIVES ME THE VARIETY OF EXPERIENCE AND THOUGHT THAT I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED. I PERSONALLY DON’T LIKE LIVING IN THE SLEEPY, CLOSED-MINDED, NOSY LITTLE PLACES OF THE WORLD WHERE EVERYBODY THERE IS NOT ONLY FAMILIAR, THEY MAY VERY LIKELY BE RELATIVES; AND WHILE SOME OF THEM WILL INDEED BE GREAT FRIENDS, OTHERS WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY BE NOT QUITE SO CONGENIAL, AND YOU CAN’T GET AWAY FROM THEM, EXCEPT BY MOVING. THAT’S A LOT OF TROUBLE TO GO TO IN ORDER TO HAVE A LITTLE PERSONAL PEACE.



https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dick-durbin-refutes-trump-says-he-did-use-the-word-shitholes-repeatedly/
CBS NEWS January 12, 2018, 11:46 AM
Dick Durbin refutes Trump, says he did say "sh*tholes" -- repeatedly

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Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, refuted President Trump's tweeted denials that he used the phrase "sh*thole countries" when discussing legal protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries. Durbin, who was in the meeting with the president when he made the remarks, said of Mr. Trump's denial, "It's not true. He said those hateful things, and he said them repeatedly."

Durbin attended an event in Chicago Friday and then held a press conference on the president's comments afterward. He told reporters how the issue came up:

When the question was raised about Haitians, for example, we have a group that have temporary protected status in the United States because they were the victims of crises and disasters and political upheaval. The largest group is El Salvadoran. The second is Honduran and the third is Haitian, and when I mentioned that fact to him, he said 'Haitians? Do we need more Haitians?' And then he went on and started to describe the immigration from Africa that was being protected in this bipartisan measure. That's where he used these vile and vulgar comments, calling the nations they come from "sh*tholes" -- the exact word used by the president not just once, but repeatedly.

Mr. Trump on Friday morning tweeted that he had used "tough language" but denied he had used the profane phrase.


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The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used. What was really tough was the outlandish proposal made - a big setback for DACA!
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And he also denied he had said anything insulting about Haitians, tweeting that he "Never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country. Never said "take them out." Made up by Dems. I have a wonderful relationship with Haitians. Probably should record future meetings - unfortunately, no trust!"


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Never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country. Never said “take them out.” Made up by Dems. I have a wonderful relationship with Haitians. Probably should record future meetings - unfortunately, no trust!
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Durbin said he tried to explain to him why it was he shouldn't use the phrase "chain migration,*" which refers to the process by which immigrants bring their extended family into the U.S. "When it came to the issue of 'chain migration,' I said to the president, 'Do you realize how painful that term is to so many people?'" Durbin recalled. "'African-Americans believe they migrated to America in chains and when you talk about chain migration, it hurts them personally.' He said, 'Oh, that's a good line.'"

Durbin's hope for a bipartisan agreement with the president's imprimatur* receded somewhat on Thursday, but he said he still plans to forge ahead with the agreement reached by some bipartisan senators Thursday.

"We're going to prepare our bipartisan agreement for introduction into the Senate next week," Durbin said. "If the Republican leadership has a better alternative, bring it forward. If they don't, for goodness sakes, give us a vote."

In a joint statement issued Friday afternoon by Sens. David Perdue, R-Georgia, and Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, who were in the room, they claimed that they don't recall Mr. Trump making the comment.

"President Trump brought everyone to the table this week and listened to both sides. But regrettably, it seems that not everyone is committed to negotiating in good faith," they said. "In regards to Senator Durbin's accusation, we do not recall the President saying these comments specifically but what he did call out was the imbalance in our current immigration system, which does not protect American workers and our national interest. We, along with the President, are committed to solving an issue many in Congress have failed to deliver on for decades."

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IMPRIMATUR*

ALL OF YOU CATHOLICS WILL KNOW THIS WORD, BUT I DIDN’T AND I’LL BET SOME OTHERS OUT THERE IN CYBERSPACE DON’T EITHER. IT’S INTERESTING.

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LISTEN ALSO TO THE PRONUNCIATION ON THE DICTIONARY WEBSITE. IT ISN’T PRONOUNCED QUITE THE WAY IT LOOKS TO ME.

NOUN -- IM·PRI·MA·TUR \ ˌIM-PRƏ-ˈMÄ-ˌTU̇R , IM-ˈPRI-MƏ-ˌTU̇R , -ˌTYU̇R \

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Definition of imprimatur
1 a : a license to print or publish especially by Roman Catholic episcopal authority
b : approval of a publication under circumstances of official censorship
2 a : sanction, approval
b : imprint
c : a mark of approval or distinction
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THIS NYT ARTICLE FROM LAST DECEMBER 23 IS NOT IDENTICAL, BUT VERY SIMILAR IN PHRASES USED AND THOUGHTS EXPRESSED. SO IT’S ALL TOO TYPICAL OF HIS EXPRESSIONS AND ATTITUDES. THE COMMENT ABOUT HAITIAN REFUGEES, “THEY ALL HAVE AIDS,” MAY EVEN BE WORSE THAN WHAT HE SAID YESTERDAY. MY POINT IS, THIS IS NOTHING NEW. WAS HE MISQUOTED LAST TIME, TOO?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/us/politics/trump-immigration.html?_r=0
TRUMP’S WAY -- STOKING FEARS, TRUMP DEFIED BUREAUCRACY TO ADVANCE IMMIGRATION AGENDA
JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS DEC. 23, 2017

The changes have had far-reaching consequences, both for the immigrants who have sought to make a new home in this country and for America’s image in the world.

WASHINGTON — Late to his own meeting and waving a sheet of numbers, President Trump stormed into the Oval Office one day in June, plainly enraged.

Five months before, Mr. Trump had dispatched federal officers to the nation’s airports to stop travelers from several Muslim countries from entering the United States in a dramatic demonstration of how he would deliver on his campaign promise to fortify the nation’s borders.

But so many foreigners had flooded into the country since January, he vented to his national security team, that it was making a mockery of his pledge. Friends were calling to say he looked like a fool, Mr. Trump said.

According to six officials who attended or were briefed about the meeting, Mr. Trump then began reading aloud from the document, which his domestic policy adviser, Stephen Miller, had given him just before the meeting. The document listed how many immigrants had received visas to enter the United States in 2017.

More than 2,500 were from Afghanistan, a terrorist haven, the president complained.

Haiti had sent 15,000 people. They “all have AIDS,” he grumbled, according to one person who attended the meeting and another person who was briefed about it by a different person who was there.

Forty thousand had come from Nigeria, Mr. Trump added. Once they had seen the United States, they would never “go back to their huts” in Africa, recalled the two officials, who asked for anonymity to discuss a sensitive conversation in the Oval Office.

As the meeting continued, John F. Kelly, then the secretary of homeland security, and Rex W. Tillerson, the secretary of state, tried to interject, explaining that many were short-term travelers making one-time visits. But as the president continued, Mr. Kelly and Mr. Miller turned their ire on Mr. Tillerson, blaming him for the influx of foreigners and prompting the secretary of state to throw up his arms in frustration. If he was so bad at his job, maybe he should stop issuing visas altogether, Mr. Tillerson fired back.

Tempers flared and Mr. Kelly asked that the room be cleared of staff members. But even after the door to the Oval Office was closed, aides could still hear the president berating his most senior advisers.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, denied on Saturday morning that Mr. Trump had made derogatory statements about immigrants during the meeting.

“General Kelly, General McMaster, Secretary Tillerson, Secretary Nielsen and all other senior staff actually in the meeting deny these outrageous claims,” she said, referring to the current White House chief of staff, the national security adviser and the secretaries of state and homeland security. “It’s both sad and telling The New York Times would print the lies of their anonymous ‘sources’ anyway.”

While the White House did not deny the overall description of the meeting, officials strenuously insisted that Mr. Trump never used the words “AIDS” or “huts” to describe people from any country. Several participants in the meeting told Times reporters that they did not recall the president using those words and did not think he had, but the two officials who described the comments found them so noteworthy that they related them to others at the time.

The meeting in June reflects Mr. Trump’s visceral approach to an issue that defined his campaign and has indelibly shaped the first year of his presidency.

How We Reported This Story

The Times conducted over three dozen interviews with current and former administration officials, lawmakers and others close to the process.

Seizing on immigration as the cause of countless social and economic problems, Mr. Trump entered office with an agenda of symbolic but incompletely thought-out goals, the product not of rigorous policy debate but of emotionally charged personal interactions and an instinct for tapping into the nativist views of white working-class Americans.

Like many of his initiatives, his effort to change American immigration policy has been executed through a disorderly and dysfunctional process that sought from the start to defy the bureaucracy charged with enforcing it, according to interviews with three dozen current and former administration officials, lawmakers and others close to the process, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to detail private interactions.

But while Mr. Trump has been repeatedly frustrated by the limits of his power, his efforts to remake decades of immigration policy have gained increasing momentum as the White House became more disciplined and adept at either ignoring or undercutting the entrenched opposition of many parts of the government. The resulting changes have had far-reaching consequences, not only for the immigrants who have sought to make a new home in this country, but also for the United States’ image in the world.

“We have taken a giant steamliner barreling full speed,” Mr. Miller said in a recent interview. “Slowed it, stopped it, begun to turn it around and started sailing in the other direction.”

<b>It is an assessment shared ruefully by Mr. Trump’s harshest critics, who see a darker view of the past year. Frank Sharry, the executive director of America’s Voice, a pro-immigration group, argues that the president’s immigration agenda is motivated by racism.

“He’s basically saying, ‘You people of color coming to America seeking the American dream are a threat to the white people,’” said Mr. Sharry, an outspoken critic of the president. “He’s come into office with an aggressive strategy of trying to reverse the demographic changes underway in America.”

Photo -- Mr. Trump’s campaign promises included building a wall — and making Mexico pay for it — as well as barring Muslims from entering the country. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times

A Pledge With Appeal

Those who know Mr. Trump say that his attitude toward immigrants long predates his entry into politics.

“He’s always been fearful where other cultures are concerned and always had anxiety about food and safety when he travels,” said Michael D’Antonio, who interviewed him for the biography “The Truth About Trump.” “His objectification and demonization of people who are different has festered for decades.”

Friends say Mr. Trump, a developer turned reality TV star, grew to see immigration as a zero-sum issue: What is good for immigrants is bad for America. In 2014, well before becoming a candidate, he tweeted: “Our government now imports illegal immigrants and deadly diseases. Our leaders are inept.”


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But he remained conflicted, viewing himself as benevolent and wanting to be liked by the many immigrants he employed.

Over time, the anti-immigrant tendencies hardened, and two of his early advisers, Roger J. Stone Jr. and Sam Nunberg, stoked that sentiment. But it was Mr. Trump who added an anti-immigrant screed to his Trump Tower campaign announcement in June 2015 in New York City without telling his aides.

“When do we beat Mexico at the border? They’re laughing at us, at our stupidity,” Mr. Trump ad-libbed. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems,” he continued. “They’re bringing drugs; they’re bringing crime; they’re rapists.”

During his campaign, he pushed a false story about Muslims celebrating in Jersey City as they watched the towers fall after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York. He said illegal immigrants were like “vomit” crossing the border. And he made pledges that he clearly could not fulfill.

“We will begin moving them out, Day 1,” he said at a rally in August 2016, adding, “My first hour in office, those people are gone.”

Democrats and some Republicans recoiled, calling Mr. Trump’s messaging damaging and divisive. But for the candidate, the idea of securing the country against outsiders with a wall had intoxicating appeal, though privately, he acknowledged that it was a rhetorical device to whip up crowds when they became listless.

Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, whom Mr. Trump consults regularly on the matter, said it was not a stretch to attribute Mr. Trump’s victory to issues where Mr. Trump broke with a Republican establishment orthodoxy that had disappointed anti-immigrant conservatives for decades.

“There’s no issue on which he was more unorthodox than on immigration,” Mr. Cotton said.

Photo -- “We have taken a giant steamliner barreling full speed,” the adviser Stephen Miller said of Mr. Trump’s immigration efforts. “Slowed it, stopped it, begun to turn it around and started sailing in the other direction.” Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

Ban Restarts Enforcement

Mr. Trump came into office with a long list of campaign promises that included not only building the wall (and making Mexico pay for it), but creating a “deportation force,” barring Muslims from entering the country and immediately deporting millions of immigrants with criminal records.

Mr. Miller and other aides had the task of turning those promises into a policy agenda that would also include an assault against a pro-immigration bureaucracy they viewed with suspicion and disdain. Working in secret, they drafted a half-dozen executive orders. One would crack down on so-called sanctuary cities. Another proposed changing the definition of a criminal alien so that it included people arrested — not just those convicted.

But mindful of his campaign promise to quickly impose “extreme vetting,” Mr. Trump decided his first symbolic action would be an executive order to place a worldwide ban on travel from nations the White House considered compromised by terrorism.

With no policy experts in place, and deeply suspicious of career civil servants they regarded as spies for President Barack Obama, Mr. Miller and a small group of aides started with an Obama-era law that identified seven terror-prone “countries of concern.” And then they skipped practically every step in the standard White House playbook for creating and introducing a major policy.

The National Security Council never convened to consider the travel ban proposal. Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary at the time, did not see it ahead of time. Lawyers and policy experts at the White House, the Justice Department and the Homeland Security Department were not asked to weigh in. There were no talking points for friendly surrogates, no detailed briefings for reporters or lawmakers, no answers to frequently asked questions, such as whether green card holders would be affected.

The announcement of the travel ban on a Friday night, seven days after Mr. Trump’s inauguration, created chaotic scenes at the nation’s largest airports, as hundreds of people were stopped, and set off widespread confusion and loud protests. Lawyers for the government raced to defend the president’s actions against court challenges, while aides struggled to explain the policy to perplexed lawmakers the next night at a black-tie dinner.

White House aides resorted to Google searches and frenzied scans of the United States Code to figure out which countries were affected.

But for the president, the chaos was the first, sharp evidence that he could exert power over the bureaucracy he criticized on the campaign trail.

“It’s working out very nicely,” Mr. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office the next day.

At a hastily called Saturday night meeting in the Situation Room, Mr. Miller told senior government officials that they should tune out the whining.

Sitting at the head of the table, across from Mr. Kelly, Mr. Miller repeated what he told the president: This is what we wanted — to turn immigration enforcement back on.

Mr. Kelly, who shared Mr. Trump’s views about threats from abroad, was nonetheless livid that his employees at homeland security had been called into action with no guidance or preparation. He told angry lawmakers that responsibility for the rollout was “all on me.” Privately, he told the White House, “That’s not going to happen again.”

Photo -- Demonstrating in January against the detention of travelers and refugees by border officials at Kennedy International Airport. The announcement of a travel ban set off widespread confusion and loud protests. Credit Christopher Lee for The New York Times

Forced to Back Down

Amid the turbulent first weeks, Mr. Trump’s attempt to bend the government’s immigration apparatus to his will began to take shape.

The ban’s message of “keep out” helped drive down illegal border crossings as much as 70 percent, even without being formally put into effect.

Immigration officers rounded up 41,318 undocumented immigrants during the president’s first 100 days, nearly a 40 percent increase. The Justice Department began hiring more immigration judges to speed up deportations. Officials threatened to hold back funds for sanctuary cities. The flow of refugees into the United States slowed.

Mr. Trump “has taken the handcuffs off,” said Steven A. Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies, an advocacy group that favors more limits on immigration.

Mr. Obama had been criticized by immigrant rights groups for excessive deportations, especially in his first term. But Mr. Camarota said that Mr. Trump’s approach was “a distinct change, to look at what is immigration doing to us, rather than what is the benefit for the immigrant.”

The president, however, remained frustrated that the shift was not yielding results.

By early March, judges across the country had blocked his travel ban. Immigrant rights activists were crowing that they had thwarted the new president. Even Mr. Trump’s own lawyers told him he had to give up on defending the ban.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and lawyers at the White House and Justice Department had decided that waging an uphill legal battle to defend the directive in the Supreme Court would fail. Instead, they wanted to devise a narrower one that could pass legal muster.

The president, though, was furious about what he saw as backing down to politically correct adversaries. He did not want a watered-down version of the travel ban, he yelled at Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, as the issue came to a head on Friday, March 3, in the Oval Office.

It was a familiar moment for Mr. Trump’s advisers. The president did not mind being told “no” in private, and would sometimes relent. But he could not abide a public turnabout, a retreat. At those moments, he often exploded at whoever was nearby.

As Marine One waited on the South Lawn for Mr. Trump to begin his weekend trip to Palm Beach, Fla., Mr. McGahn insisted that administration lawyers had already promised the court that Mr. Trump would issue a new order. There was no alternative, he said.

“This is bullshit,” the president responded.

With nothing resolved, Mr. Trump, furious, left the White House. A senior aide emailed a blunt warning to a colleague waiting aboard Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland: “He’s coming in hot.”

Already mad at Mr. Sessions, who the day before had recused himself in the Russia investigation, Mr. Trump refused to take his calls. Aides told Mr. Sessions he would have to fly down to Mar-a-Lago to plead with the president in person to sign the new order.

Over dinner that night with Mr. Sessions and Mr. McGahn, Mr. Trump relented. When he was back in Washington, he signed the new order. It was an indication that he had begun to understand — or at least, begrudgingly accept — the need to follow a process.

Still, one senior adviser later recalled never having seen a president so angry signing anything.

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Soft Spot for ‘Dreamers’

As a candidate, Mr. Trump had repeatedly contradicted himself about the deportations he would pursue, and whether he was opposed to any kind of path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. But he also courted conservative voters by describing an Obama-era policy as an illegal amnesty for the immigrants who had been brought to the United States as children.

During the transition, his aides drafted an executive order to end the program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. But the executive order was held back as the new president struggled with conflicted feelings about the young immigrants, known as Dreamers.

“We’re going to take care of those kids,” Mr. Trump had pledged to Senator Richard J. Durbin during a private exchange at his Inauguration Day luncheon.

The comment was a fleeting glimpse of the president’s tendency to seek approval from whoever might be sitting across from him, and the power that personal interactions have in shaping his views.

In 2013, Mr. Trump met with a small group of Dreamers at Trump Tower, hoping to improve his standing with the Hispanic community. José Machado told Mr. Trump about waking up at the age of 15 to find his mother had vanished — deported, he later learned, back to Nicaragua.

“Honestly,” Mr. Machado said of Mr. Trump, “he had no idea.”

Mr. Trump appeared to be touched by the personal stories, and insisted that the Dreamers accompany him to his gift shop for watches, books and neckties to take home as souvenirs. In the elevator on the way down, he quietly nodded and said, “You convinced me.”

Aware that the president was torn about the Dreamers, Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, quietly reached out in March to Mr. Durbin, who had championed legislation called the Dream Act to legalize the immigrants, to test the waters for a possible deal.

After weeks of private meetings on Capitol Hill and telephone conversations with Mr. Durbin and Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican supportive of legalizing the Dreamers, Mr. Kushner invited them to dinner at the six-bedroom estate he shares with his wife, Ivanka Trump.

But Mr. Durbin’s hope of a deal faded when he arrived to the house and saw who one of the guests would be.

“Stephen Miller’s presence made it a much different experience than I expected,” Mr. Durbin said later.

Photo -- Jairo Reyes of Arkansas, left, and Karen Cuadillo of Florida, young undocumented immigrants shielded from deportation under an Obama-era policy, on Capitol Hill in September. Credit Tom Brenner/The New York Times

Confronting the ‘Deep State’

Even as the administration was engaged in a court battle over the travel ban, it began to turn its attention to another way of tightening the border — by limiting the number of refugees admitted each year to the United States. And if there was one “deep state” stronghold of Obama holdovers that Mr. Trump and his allies suspected of undermining them on immigration, it was the State Department, which administers the refugee program.

At the department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, there was a sense of foreboding about a president who had once warned that any refugee might be a “Trojan horse” or part of a “terrorist army.”

Mr. Trump had already used the travel ban to cut the number of allowable refugees admitted to the United States in 2017 to 50,000, a fraction of the 110,000 set by Mr. Obama. Now, Mr. Trump would have to decide the level for 2018.

At an April meeting with top officials from the bureau in the West Wing’s Roosevelt Room, Mr. Miller cited statistics from the restrictionist Center for Immigration Studies that indicated that resettling refugees in the United States was far costlier than helping them in their own region.

Mr. Miller was visibly displeased, according to people present, when State Department officials pushed back, citing another study that found refugees to be a net benefit to the economy. He called the contention absurd and said it was exactly the wrong kind of thinking.

But the travel ban had been a lesson for Mr. Trump and his aides on the dangers of dictating a major policy change without involving the people who enforce it. This time, instead of shutting out those officials, they worked to tightly control the process.

In previous years, State Department officials had recommended a refugee level to the president. Now, Mr. Miller told officials the number would be determined by the Department of Homeland Security under a new policy that treated the issue as a security matter, not a diplomatic one.

When he got word that the Office of Refugee Resettlement had drafted a 55-page report showing that refugees were a net positive to the economy, Mr. Miller swiftly intervened, requesting a meeting to discuss it. The study never made it to the White House; it was shelved in favor of a three-page list of all the federal assistance programs that refugees used.

At the United Nations General Assembly in September, Mr. Trump cited the Center for Immigration Studies report, arguing that it was more cost-effective to keep refugees out than to bring them into the United States.

“Uncontrolled migration,” Mr. Trump declared, “is deeply unfair to both the sending and receiving countries.”

Photo -- Border wall prototypes in San Diego. The disorganization that marked Mr. Trump’s earliest actions on immigration have given way to a more disciplined approach that has yielded concrete results. Credit Jenna Schoenefeld for The New York Times

More Disciplined Approach

Cecilia Muñoz, who served as Mr. Obama’s chief domestic policy adviser, said she was alarmed by the speed with which Mr. Trump and his team have learned to put their immigration agenda into effect.

“The travel ban was a case of bureaucratic incompetence,” she said. “They made rookie mistakes. But they clearly learned from that experience. For the moment, all of the momentum is in the direction of very ugly, very extreme, very harmful policies.”

By year’s end, the chaos and disorganization that marked Mr. Trump’s earliest actions on immigration had given way to a more disciplined approach that yielded concrete results, steered in large part by Mr. Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general. As secretary of homeland security, he had helped unleash immigration officers who felt constrained under Mr. Obama. They arrested 143,000 people in 2017, a sharp uptick, and deported more than 225,000.

Later, as White House chief of staff, Mr. Kelly quietly persuaded the president to drop his talk of Mexico paying for the wall. But he has advocated on behalf of the president’s restrictionist vision, defying his reputation as a moderator of Mr. Trump’s hard-line instincts.

In September, a third version of the president’s travel ban was issued with little fanfare and new legal justifications. Then, Mr. Trump overruled objections from diplomats, capping refugee admissions at 45,000 for 2018, the lowest since 1986. In November, the president ended a humanitarian program that granted residency to 59,000 Haitians since a 2010 earthquake ravaged their country.

As the new year approached, officials began considering a plan to separate parents from their children when families are caught entering the country illegally, a move that immigrant groups called draconian.

At times, though, Mr. Trump has shown an openness to a different approach. In private discussions, he returns periodically to the idea of a “comprehensive immigration” compromise, though aides have warned him against using the phrase because it is seen by his core supporters as code for amnesty. During a fall dinner with Democratic leaders, Mr. Trump explored the possibility of a bargain to legalize Dreamers in exchange for border security.

Mr. Trump even told Republicans recently that he wanted to think bigger, envisioning a deal early next year that would include a wall, protection for Dreamers, work permits for their parents, a shift to merit-based immigration with tougher work site enforcement, and ultimately, legal status for some undocumented immigrants.

The idea would prevent Dreamers from sponsoring the parents who brought them illegally for citizenship, limiting what Mr. Trump refers to as “chain migration.”

“He wants to make a deal,” said Mr. Graham, who spoke with Mr. Trump about the issue last week. “He wants to fix the entire system.”

Yet publicly, Mr. Trump has only employed the absolutist language that defined his campaign and has dominated his presidency.

After an Uzbek immigrant was arrested on suspicion of plowing a truck into a bicycle path in Lower Manhattan in October, killing eight people, the president seized on the episode.

Privately, in the Oval Office, the president expressed disbelief about the visa program that had admitted the suspect, confiding to a group of visiting senators that it was yet another piece of evidence that the United States’ immigration policies were “a joke.”

Even after a year of progress toward a country sealed off from foreign threats, the president still viewed the immigration system as plagued by complacency.

“We’re so politically correct,” he complained to reporters in the cabinet room, “that we’re afraid to do anything.”

Matthew Rosenberg and Maggie Haberman contributed reporting.



“... A PARTICIPANT ON THIS JANUARY 2018 CONFERENCE CALL ANNOUNCED THAT HIS "INFLATABLE DOLL IS A LESBIAN." AIN’T AMERICA GREAT???

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It took the White House 22 minutes to figure out how to enable the "listening only" feature on a conference call on Thursday in which senior administration officials announced that President Trump would continue to waive nuclear program-related sanctions, keeping the deal intact.

"This White House can't even run a f*cking conference call," a reporter on an unmuted phone line angrily exclaimed to the entire call. "They don't know how to mute their line."

"It's the illegitimate media that doesn't know how to conduct themselves. They can't mute their f*cking phones," an unidentified official said. "Mute your phones."

Another White House official repeatedly attempted to quiet the noisy line "so the people in charge" could talk.

"I think if everyone had half a brain and common sense and muted their phones, this wouldn't be a problem," she yelled in an apparent fit of frustration.

"Hello? Hello?," one reporter interjected, some 15 minutes after the slated start of the call. "Has the call started?"

"This is Kim Jong Un calling for Donald Trump," another reporter joked as tensions flared.

"All participants are now in listen-only mode," the operator finally announced, much to the relief of everyone on the call. The call began at 1:07 p.m.

A State Department official announced at the end of the call that the technical difficulties prevented the senior administration officials from taking any questions from reporters.

The White House has struggled with facilitating background briefings on conference calls before.

In July 2017, during another background call on the administration's Iran policy, a participant on the call announced that his "inflatable doll is a lesbian."

Last May, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney hosted a call that quickly devolved into a scene out of an episode of the HBO series "Veep," in which crying babies, hacking coughs, and the tune of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" were heard on the line.

"This is going to be a disaster," Mulvaney stated before opening the floor for questions to over sixty reporters who had dialed into the conference call.

CBS News' Kathryn Watson contributed to this story.

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“ONE SAID THE CALDWELLS "MADE ME THINK ABOUT NOT ONLY STANDING UP FOR MYSELF, BUT STANDING UP FOR OTHERS AND FIXING MISTAKES THAT WERE MADE IN THE WORLD." ARE YOU A BYSTANDER? ARE YOU EVEN AWARE OF WHAT THE “BYSTANDER EFFECT” IS? LOOK IT UP IN GOOGLE.

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Students who took couple's honeymoon story to heart take action

POCONOS, Pa. - At the Mount Airy Resort in the Poconos of Pennsylvania, reverend Gilbert Caldwell and his wife, Grace, arrived recently for their second honeymoon. They were greeted warmly -- a sharp contrast to their first visit, 60 years earlier.

In 1957 they were married in North Carolina, then drove eight hours only to be turned back for being black.

"First they pretended I didn't have a reservation, where I actually brought a copy," Gilbert said. "Then of course they said, 'but if we said yes, our guests would be very unhappy.'"

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They had to stay at a black-owned hunting lodge instead.

"Men with these big guns," Grace said. "Not what we were planning on."

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Prodded partly by that experience, Gilbert immersed himself in the civil rights movement, working side by side with Martin Luther King Jr.

Today, he speaks about the movement, which is how he ended up at Bear Tavern Elementary in Titusville, New Jersey, last year. He told the honeymoon story, as he'd done a hundred times before. But for whatever reason, a group of fifth graders really took it to heart.

"At the end of the story I was like, 'that's just terrible,'" one student said. "It was really heartbreaking," added another. "I feel like this is the worst thing that someone could do to someone."

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Students were touched by the Caldwells' story, and decided to do something about it. CBS NEWS

Even months after the Caldwells' visit, the kids are still affected, which is why each fifth grader wrote a letter to Mount Airy. One said the Caldwells "made me think about not only standing up for myself, but standing up for others and fixing mistakes that were made in the world."

In closing, the kids requested an all-expense-paid honeymoon redo -- which they got.

"It makes me feel really good inside because we know that even though we're just kids, we made an impact on the world," one student said.

"It was really magnificent to know that kids cared that much," Grace said.

The original Mount Airy was torn down years ago, so the couple went to a new building with new owners, who were so impressed with the kids that they wanted to help make it right. Obviously, this does not make up for decades of racial injustice. But it's a step, and a sign, that we can get there.

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