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Three presidential candidates formally accepted the nom-

inations of Mexico’s main political parties on Sunday, entering what is shaping up to be a crowded, six-person race to the July 1 election.

In dueling rallies in the capital, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Ricardo Anaya and Jose Antonio Meade addressed key domestic issues like violence, corrup-tion and the economy, and also relations with the United States.

Lopez Obrador of the leftist Morena party, the early front-runner in what is his third bid for the presidency, proposed to tackle insecurity by creat-ing a federal public security department and a national guard incorporating both police and military forces.

“Those who violate human rights will be rigorously punished,” he said, in allu-sion to abuses by Mexican security forces. “There will be no torture in our country.”

Lopez Obrador also criticized Trump adminis-tration plans for what he called an “unnecessary” wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. He vowed a friendly and cooperative relationship with Washington but said that “if con-struction of the wall we consider a violation of human rights is insisted upon, we will recur to the United Nations to defend the rights of Mexi-cans.”

Anaya, from the conservative

National Action Party, was sworn in as the candidate of a coalition with the left-lean-ing Democratic Revolution Party.

Clad in a dark blazer and white dress shirt, he paced the stage of a Mexico City auditorium like a tech executive announc-ing a new product as he made his pitch to supporters on violence, corruption and inequality.

To combat poverty, he proposed to grow the economy by boosting competi-tion and investment, and progressively increasing the minimum wage.

“The best social policy is economic policy, and well-paid jobs,” Anaya said.

He also promised respectful relations with the United States but said his gov-ernment would not let Washington take advantage of it.

“At the right time I will say personally to the president of the United States, and I will say it in his language so there will be absolutely no confusion ... Mexico will not pay a single cent for that wall,” Anaya said.

And at a packed stadium, Meade offi-cially became the first non-member presi-dential candidate for the governing Insti-tutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, in its nearly 90-year history.

Meade promised to create a “national registry of the needs of every person” which his government would follow up on if elected — things like scholarships, medicines and support for small busi-nesses and transportation.

Main party candidates formally join Mexico presidential race

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador holds his hand out to take an oath as he is named the presiden-tial candidate for the MORENA political party in Mexico City, Sunday, February 18, 2018. ON THE COVER: Supporters of Ricardo Anaya wave PRD party flags as they arrive for an event to name him the official presidential candidate of the Forward for Mexico coalition, which unites the Na-tional Action Party (PAN) and the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), at the National Auditorium

in Mexico City, Sunday, February 18, 2018.

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LATIN AMERICA: Main party candidates formally join Mexico presidential race

STATE: ICE lawyer in Seattle charged with stealing immigrant IDs

IMMIGRATION: Trump wants fewer immigrants bringing in family members

NATIONAL: Victim’s aunt calls for action, not prayers, after shooting

RELIGION: Influential evangelist Billy Graham dies at 99

POLITICS: A look at the Trump’s deadline for the DACA program

STATE: More flu expected in Washington

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SEATTLE, Washington (AP)

The chief counsel for U.S. Immi-gration and Customs Enforce-ment in Seattle has been charged

with stealing immigrants’ identities.Raphael A. Sanchez, who resigned from

the agency effective Monday, faces one count of aggravated identity theft and another of wire fraud in a charging docu-ment filed Monday in U.S. District Court.

Prosecutors with the Justice Depart-ment’s Public Integrity Section allege that Sanchez stole the identities of seven people “in various stages of immigration proceedings” to defraud credit card com-panies including American Express, Bank of America and Capital One.

Neither Sanchez nor his lawyer, Cassan-dra Stamm, immediately returned emails seeking comment Tuesday.

According to court rules, the type of charging document filed in Sanchez’s case — called an information — can be filed only when a defendant has agreed to waive his or her right to be indicted by a grand jury; it’s typically an indication that a plea agreement is in the works. The court’s cal-endar showed that Sanchez is due to enter a plea Thursday.

The charging document contained few specifics about the allegations, but did give one example: It said that in April 2016, Sanchez sent an email from his govern-ment account to his Yahoo account that included personal information pertain-ing to a Chinese national identified only as R.H. The information Sanchez sent included an image of R.H.’s U.S. perma-nent resident card, the biographical page of R.H.’s Chinese passport and a utility bill in R.H.’s name.

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IMMIGRATION

NEW YORK (AP)

When the U.S. government approved Ricardo Magpan-tay, his wife and young chil-

dren to immigrate to America from the Philippines, it was 1991. By the time a visa was available, it was 2005, and his chil-dren could not come with him because they were now adults.

More than a decade later, his children are still waiting.

Magpantay gets worried when he hears the White House is aiming to limit the relatives that immigrants-turned-citizens can sponsor, a profound change to a fun-damental piece of the American immigra-tion system.

“It is really frustrating and it is very dreadful for me, because after a long wait, if this will be passed, what will happen for them?” said Magpantay, a 68-year-old mechanical engineer in the Southern Cal-ifornia city of Murrieta. “I won’t be able to bring them forever.”

For the past 50-plus years, family reuni-fication has been central to U.S. immigra-

tion law. Those who become naturalized citizens can bring spouses and minor children and petition for parents, adult children and siblings to get their own green cards and become Americans in their own right, with their own ability to sponsor.

Many on opposing sides of the immigration debate have long felt the family reunifi-cation system needs reform. Immigration advocates want a reassessment of the quotas on how many people can come from a given country in a given year, which has created decades-long backlogs for citizens of some coun-tries.

Self-described “restrictionists,” includ-ing President Donald Trump, want a narrower, nuclear definition of family, making spouses and minor children the only relatives a citizen could sponsor. That’s a central plank of the sweeping immigration overhaul Trump has pro-

posed, a move that activists say could cut legal immigration in the U.S. by half.

Congress rejected competing bills last week meant to resolve the status of hun-dreds of thousands of young people brought to the U.S. illegally, including one plan that mirrored Trump’s overall immi-gration proposal. The lack of resolution on an issue that was pivotal to Trump’s election leaves it as potential tinderbox for the midterm congressional elections

this fall.In his State of the Union speech last

month, Trump referenced an attempted bombing by a Bangladeshi immigrant in New York in December as proof of the need to curtail what he and others term “chain migration” in favor of a more skills-based system.

Advocates of family reunification call the rhetoric around merit and skills a smoke screen.

“They’re being disingenuous — their goal is to reduce immigration overall,” said Anu Joshi, director of immigration policy at the New York Immigration Coalition. “This is just about cutting family, it’s a family ban.”Jeff DeGuia, 28, recalled that it took his

mother more than a decade to bring two sisters from the Philippines.

“There’s definitely this idea you are not really complete without your huge family,” said DeGuia, whose grandfather came to the United States for an engineer-ing job in the 1970s. His family settled in Chicago, though he and his brother now live in Southern California.

Trump wants fewer immigrants bringing in family members

In this Thursday, February 1, 2018 photo, Filipino American Jeff DeGuia, 28, holds up family pictures at Unidad (Unity) Park in Los Angeles,

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NATIONALVictim’s aunt calls for action, not prayers, after shooting

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP)

In an open letter addressed "Dear America," the aunt of a 14-year-old killed in a Florida school

shooting calls for action — not prayers — to put an end to gun violence.

Abbie Youkilis describes niece Jaime Guttenberg as intelligent and feisty with the world's best smile. She says she danced with beauty and grace, and "probably had been kind to the student who shot her."

Her emotional letter released Thurs-day labels politicians who fail to restrict access to guns as complicit, saying they and the National Rifle Association enabled Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old charged with killing Jaime and 16 others at a Parkland, Florida, high school Wednesday.

"My family does not want your hopes and prayers. We want your action. Join us in fighting the NRA. Join us in depos-ing any politician who cares more about campaign contributions than my beauti-

ful Jaime. Join us in support-ing leaders who will bravely fight for our children's lives," Youkilis writes.

Gun rights advocates have distorted the Second Amendment right to bear arms beyond rational inter-pretation, she says.

"Why is your hunting hobby more important than my niece's life?" Youki-lis writes. "Why should my niece have been sacrificed at the altar of your 'freedoms?'"

Youkilis describes Jaime's parents as loving and over-protective. Fred Guttenberg said in a Facebook post that he is "trying to figure out how my family gets through this."

And Youkilis says she intends to politicize the issue, as ninth-grader Jaime would have wanted her to do.

"This is political and now this is per-sonal. If not now, when? If not us, who?

If we don't finally ACT, the sickness of gun violence will kill us all," she writes.

Florida's Republican-dominated Legislature likely won't do much, if anything, to limit access to guns. After the Pulse nightclub shooting that left 49 dead, Republicans filed bills to allow guns at state university campuses and airports. Republicans refused to hear Democrats' bills that would restrict gun access, including a ban on assault rifles.

The focus of Republican Gov. Rick Scott and Republican legislators after last Wednesday's shootings was on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill and boosting school security, but there was no talk about restricting gun access.

"You don't take cars off the road because someone got drunk, used one and killed someone," Rep. Jose Oliva, who is in line to be the next Florida House speaker, told reporters

Wednesday evening.

This undated photo provided by Abbie Youkilis shows her niece, Jaime Guttenberg. Guttenberg was a student at Marjory Stoneman

Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and was killed during a shooting at the school on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018.

RELIGION

MONTREAT, North Carolina (AP)

The Rev. Billy Graham, the mag-netic, movie-star-handsome preacher who became a singu-

lar force in postwar American religious life, a confidant of presidents and the most widely heard Christian evangelist in history, died Wednesday at 99.

“America’s Pastor,” as he was dubbed, had suffered from cancer, pneumonia and other ailments and died at his home in North Carolina.

More than anyone else, Graham built evangelicalism into a force that rivaled liberal Protestantism and Roman Catholi-cism in the U.S. His leadership summits and crusades in more than 185 countries and territories forged powerful global links among conservative Christians and threw a lifeline to believers in the commu-nist bloc.

He was a counselor to U.S. presidents from Dwight Eisenhower to George W. Bush. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civil-

ian honor. When the Billy Graham Museum and Library was dedicated in 2007 in Charlotte, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton attended.

“When he prays with you in the Oval Office or upstairs in the White House, you feel he’s praying for you, not the presi-dent,” Clinton said at the cer-emony.

In addition to his public appearances, Graham reached millions of people through television, radio, newspaper columns, films about evan-gelical themes and global net-works on satellite television. His message was not complex or original, but his conviction won audi-ences around the world.

“The Bible says,” was his catchphrase. His unquestioning belief in Scripture turned the Gospel into a “rapier” in his hands, he said.

A tall, striking man with thick, swept-

back hair, stark blue eyes and a firm jaw, Graham was a commanding presence in the pulpit, with a powerful baritone voice.

When he made his last crusade, in New York in 2005, he had preached in person to more than 210 million people around the world.

Graham was born on November 7,

1918 at his family’s dairy farm near Charlotte, North Caro-lina. He had a fundamentalist education, under which true believers were to reject Chris-tians who had the least differ-ence regarding the Scriptures. But as his crusades gained the support of a growing range of Christian confessions, he began to reject that point of view.

He then joined the emerg-ing movement of New Evan-gelism, which rejected funda-mentalism to relate to society in general.

“The ecumenical move-ment has expanded my point of view and I recognize that

God has his people in all churches,” he said in the early 1950s.

In 1995, his son Franklin was elected leader of his ministry.

Graham will be laid to rest with his wife Ruth in the Billy Graham Museum and Library.

Influential evangelist Billy Graham dies at 99

File photo dated June 26, 2005, of the Reverend Billy Graham in New York City.



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POLITICS

WASHINGTON (AP)

President Donald Trump is still trying to pressure Congress to pass immigration legislation by

March 5. Thanks to the federal courts, the impact of his deadline is less threat-ening than it was originally, at least for now.

The Senate on Thursday rejected com-peting bills protecting “Dreamers,” a sign of how difficult it will be for lawmakers to pass legislation in this election year, let alone by March 5, that would protect the young immigrants from deportation.

A look at that date’s significance and what’s facing hundreds of thousands of Dreamers wondering what comes next:

THE BEGINNINGIn September, Trump said he was

ending President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. He said Obama had exceeded his executive powers when he created DACA.

Yet Trump also gave lawmakers until March 5 to send him legislation renewing

the program, which at last count gives 690,000 Dreamers the tem-porary ability to live and work in the U.S. Dreamers are younger immigrants who arrived in the country illegally as children.

COURTS STEP INIn recent weeks, federal judges

in San Francisco and New York have made Trump’s deadline tem-porarily moot.

They’ve issued injunctions ordering the Trump adminis-tration to keep DACA in place while courts consider legal chal-lenges to Trump’s termination of the program. The judicial process could take months.

THE ADMINISTRATION’S MOVESU.S. Citizenship and Immigration Ser-

vices has said it is still accepting applica-tions to renew DACA status for people whose two-year eligibility expires. That includes renewals for applicants whose permits expire after March 5.

But top administration officials have sent mixed messages about what will

happen after March 5.Trump has said he has the right to push

the deadline later and might be willing to do that. But Homeland Security Sec-retary Kirstjen Nielsen has described that as possibly unconstitutional.

And while Trump has offered legisla-tion giving 1.8 million Dreamers a chance for citizenship, he’s attached strings most Democrats aren’t accepting. Those include an immediate $25 billion to build

his proposed border wall with Mexico.SO FOR NOW ...Until the Supreme Court rules defin-

itively on the case, Congress is feeling less pressure to act quickly. And Dream-ers can continue renewing their status.

But there’s a catch. While the lower courts’ rulings allow recipients to reapply for DACA protections, those applications take months to adjudi-cate. During that time, applicants aren’t allowed to work and could be detained and put in deportation proceedings.

CONGRESS TO THE RESCUE?That’s hard to imagine, since the

Senate decisively rejected Trump’s and other bills Thursday protecting Dream-

ers and taking other immigration steps. House leaders still haven’t lined up enough support to pass their own legis-lation.

One possibility: A measure that would extend DACA for a year and give Trump a year’s worth of money for his wall. That might end up in a bill financing govern-ment agencies that Congress plans to consider by late March.

A look at the Trump’s deadline for the DACA program

In this December 6, 2017, file photo, demonstrators hold up balloons during an immigration rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and Temporary Protected

Status (TPS), programs, near the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

STATE

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Preliminary data released estimates the 2017-2018 flu

vaccine to be 36 percent overall effective at prevent-ing flu illness. Washington’s health officials want every-one to know it isn’t too late to get a flu shot since flu activity is still expected to be high for several more weeks.

This year is a reminder of how unpre-dictable and serious flu can be. Every flu season is different based on many factors including the circulating viruses and how well the flu shot protects against those viruses.

“Washington has seen a lot of the H3N2 strain of flu, which causes more severe illness in young children and those over 65 years old,” said Washing-ton state’s Communicable Disease Epi-demiologist Dr. Scott Lindquist. “This year’s vaccine protects against H3N2,

but that strain of the virus is known to change frequently throughout the season, making the vaccine less effective against the virus. Protection is higher against other strains included in the vaccine and can help flu illness be milder and shorter for those who still get sick.”

The Department of Health urges everyone aged six months and older, including pregnant women, to knock out flu with a flu shot. Visit KnockOutFlu.org for places to get your vaccine, weekly flu activity updates, and frequently asked questions and concerns about the flu vaccine.

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