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<h1 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom">A Honduran man finds love in Mexico on his journey north to the United States</h1> </div> <div class="card-footer flex-container-row flex-mobile-column align-items-center "> <div class="byline-container flex-container-row align-items-center"> <div class="hidden-mobile spaced spaced-right spaced-sm"> </div> <div class="byline-timestamp-container flex-container-row flex-tablet-column flex-mobile-column align-items-center"> <div class="byline-wrapper"> <span class="byline byline-article">By <span class="uppercase">Wendy Fry</span> </span> </div> <span class="spaced spaced-right spaced-md hidden-mobile"></span> <div class="timestamp-wrapper "> <span class="timestamp timestamp-article "> Mar 09, 2019 </span> <span class="timestamp spaced spaced-sm spaced-left spaced-right ">|</span> <span class="timestamp timestamp-article "> 1:05 PM </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pb-container"> </div> </header><section id="left" class="left guttered width-100"><div class="wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-utilities-lead-art" data-pb-name="Lead Art" data-pb-curated="curated" id="f0lZoGUm79gNNq"> <div class="card card-captioned "> <div class="card-content"> <figure class=""><div class="full-width img-container aspect-ratio-no-aspect"> <img class="full-width" alt="A Honduran man finds love in Mexico on his journey north to the United States" src="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/XXcSOthYOBQBShuQXG5hD6o_FBE=/415x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c841d81/turbine/la-1552162172-ggqgczyawa-snap-image" data-src="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/Sl6BDhrsNw8zUW-5ZcG6m46vDeU=/1200x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c841d81/turbine/la-1552162172-ggqgczyawa-snap-image" data-src-small="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/XXcSOthYOBQBShuQXG5hD6o_FBE=/415x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c841d81/turbine/la-1552162172-ggqgczyawa-snap-image" data-src-medium="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/likapVaG0ymLGZacG4Xv9SsdRWE=/800x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c841d81/turbine/la-1552162172-ggqgczyawa-snap-image">
</div> <figcaption class="caption-text spaced spaced-top spaced-sm flex-container-row justify-space-between "><div> Pedro Cordova, from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Linda Romero Sánchez, from Ensenada, met while he was on his way to the United States as part of the last migrant caravan. (John Gibbins / San Diego Union-Tribune)</div> </figcaption></figure>
</div> </div> </div> <div class="wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-body" data-pb-name="Article Body (Elements)" data-pb-curated="curated" id="fd3eB92m79gNNq"> <div class=""> </div> <div class="collection collection-cards"> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p data-page="1">Fleeing a gang, Pedro Cordova joined thousands traveling north last fall from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. He endured tear gas, days without food and trekked thousands of miles to Tijuana in November. But it wasn’t the complicated U.S. immigration policy or active-duty troops deployed to the border that slowed Cordova’s northward journey.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>It was Linda Romero Sánchez, a 29-year-old from Ensenada. She’s the coordinator of the Movimiento Juventud 2000 shelter in Tijuana and a mother to three children.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>From the moment he laid eyes on her, right there on Avenida Constitución, less than a block from the U.S.-Mexico border, his journey <em>norte</em>: forgotten.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“I started passing by every day just to catch a glimpse of her,” Cordova said. “Her smile just fixed everything for me.”</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>There have been times when she’s had to put her body in between domestic violence victims and their abusers, and “show cartel members the door,” as she puts it.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“We didn’t get to sleep last night until after midnight,” Romero said with a yawn. “I didn’t even feed my own kids until after 10 p.m.”</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Tijuana shelters are once again crowded to the brink of crisis, and shelter workers are bracing for more arrivals as people are sent back under the new U.S. “Remain in Mexico” policy.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“Okay, breakfast is at 8:30 a.m. … There is a schedule to charge your phones … At 7 p.m., it’s bedtime for all the kids,” Romero explains to a new arrival — a young woman with long, curly hair, holding a toddler on her lap.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“Do not leave your child here and go somewhere. They must be taken care of by you at all times. When you take a shower, they go with you to bathe.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Once the paperwork is done, Romero slumps back down toward her desk, nearly drifting off, until something catches her eye from clear across the building.</p> </div>
</div> <div class="mobile- inline-ad hidden-desktop" data-inline-ad-count="4"> </div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>It’s Cordova, her new husband.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>As the 32-year-old Honduran navigates his way through rows of bright-colored tents where the migrants sleep, Romero comes back to life, sitting up straight at her desk and flashing a smile.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“When I see him, it’s like I have all my strength back with me,” she said.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Cordova arrived with the caravan of Central Americans in November, and the two had a whirlwind romance, quickly falling in love.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>They aren’t the only ones to have found love in the time of caravans. News reports document at least a dozen marriages between people who met amid the large numbers of people leaving Central America, a migration movement that garnered international news attention and prompted angry tweets from President Trump.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The pair celebrated their wedding Dec. 28, 2018, at Movimiento Juventud.(Romero didn’t want to leave the shelter for the whole day.)</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“It happened very fast. Everything happened so fast with our wedding,” she said. “I called my mom, and it was a big surprise.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>They tell their love story over the laughter of about a dozen children watching a movie in the shelter.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“I told her I would take care of her and I just wanted her by my side,” said Cordova, who now works in a partner shelter around the block to be closer to Romero.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Between the two of them, they have five children. Two are in Honduras, and Cordova doesn’t know when or if he will ever see them again.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“He cries about that sometimes,” Romero says.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Cordova said he has not yet applied for a permanent legal status in Mexico.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>He keeps his feelings guarded, but it’s easy to see how proud he is of her and how he fell in love with someone who dedicated her life to welcoming those who walked a similar path he did as a migrant.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>When the movie is interrupted by a fight over pan dulce, Cordova steps in to back up Romero, sending the offending youth off to his tent while she wraps her arms around and comforts the other.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Romero said they think about getting regular jobs to have more time with her kids and more money.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“But I like working with people who need me,” she said. “Someone has to have a heart or nothing will change.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>They both know how it feels to be desperate.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Cordova said he fled gang violence, leaving everything he has, even his children behind and he will never return to Honduras.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>About 10 years ago, Romero’s family fell on hard times and she came to Tijuana with her children looking for work. They struggled to find shelter.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“I knocked on door after door after door and no one would accept me,” she said.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Before that, she spent parts of her childhood, begging in the streets for change.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“My mom never said to me: ‘How are you feeling today? Do you want me to play with you? Do you want me to help you with your homework?’ ” she tearfully recalls.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Here, she’s able to make sure children get the love and comfort they all deserve, she says.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>They say love can conquer all.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>For Pedro and Linda, overcoming their pasts may be their biggest obstacle. Much like the forces driving thousands of Central Americans to flee northward, decades of policy is not easily undone.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The two are grappling with how to blend their very different families now stretched thousands of miles apart.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The future looks challenging too.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Recently, Linda didn’t have money to buy her 11-year-old daughter a birthday present. The migrants at Movimiento Juventud all chipped in together to buy a birthday cake.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Their family shares a one-room apartment; the kids sleep on <em>cobijas</em> on the floor, and there’s a baby on the way.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Linda says before she met Pedro she never liked her own name because in Spanish, “linda” means pretty.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“When I was in grade school, kids would tease me that it wasn’t for me,” she explains.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“The truth is she’s a beautiful woman with a wonderful heart,” Pedro counters.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>All they know is right now, in this moment, when Pedro looks at Linda, he sees the most beautiful woman he’s ever laid eyes on.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>And in Pedro, Linda found what was missing all her life. She finally has someone on her side, and with that, her beauty shines bright.</p> </div>
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<h1 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom">Massive Venezuela blackout raises tensions amid political and economic crises</h1> </div> <div class="card-footer flex-container-row flex-mobile-column align-items-center "> <div class="byline-container flex-container-row align-items-center"> <div class="hidden-mobile spaced spaced-right spaced-sm"> </div> <div class="byline-timestamp-container flex-container-row flex-tablet-column flex-mobile-column align-items-center"> <div class="byline-wrapper"> <span class="byline byline-article">By <span class="uppercase">Mery Mogollon</span> </span> </div> <span class="spaced spaced-right spaced-md hidden-mobile"></span> <div class="timestamp-wrapper flex-container-row align-items-center flex-mobile-column "> <div> <span class="timestamp timestamp-article "> Mar 08, 2019 </span> <span class="timestamp spaced spaced-sm spaced-left spaced-right hidden-tablet">|</span> <span class="timestamp timestamp-article hidden-tablet "> 4:10 PM </span> </div> <div> <span class="timestamp spaced spaced-sm spaced-left spaced-right hidden-mobile">|</span> <span class="timestamp">Caracas, Venezuela</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pb-container"> </div> </header><section id="left" class="left guttered width-100"><div class="wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-utilities-lead-art" data-pb-name="Lead Art" data-pb-curated="curated" id="f0MUVW5XrdhThr"> <div class="card card-captioned "> <div class="card-content"> <figure class=""><div class="full-width img-container aspect-ratio-no-aspect"> <img class="full-width" alt="Massive Venezuela blackout raises tensions amid political and economic crises" src="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/hBO0khzTvF2dsTBA0Kvh7y5Pqo0=/415x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c82f2e7/turbine/la-1552085731-6bgpiuy2em-snap-image" data-src="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/fcaWd-rzucCXlX5gvVxMrav75PI=/1200x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c82f2e7/turbine/la-1552085731-6bgpiuy2em-snap-image" data-src-small="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/hBO0khzTvF2dsTBA0Kvh7y5Pqo0=/415x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c82f2e7/turbine/la-1552085731-6bgpiuy2em-snap-image" data-src-medium="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/uiZkiyWKIyUvw-mSAa6LIwZiyfY=/800x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c82f2e7/turbine/la-1552085731-6bgpiuy2em-snap-image">
</div> <figcaption class="caption-text spaced spaced-top spaced-sm flex-container-row justify-space-between "><div>Relatives of a patient hold candles in a darkened clinic March 7 during a power outage in Caracas, Venezuela. The nationwide blackout lasted into the next afternoon. (Ariana Cubillos / Associated Press)</div> </figcaption></figure>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Electricity was finally being restored to parts of the country Friday afternoon after a breakdown in the national power grid hit nearly the entire nation.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Power outages occur frequently in the capital, Caracas, and the rest of the country, but this week’s blackout was one of the most serious in recent years.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>It hit at rush hour Thursday, trapping hundreds of people for hours in the Caracas subway and leaving countless others to find their way home on darkened streets and paths.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Carlos Manriquez was standing on a Caracas street Friday trying to find a way to get his 60-year-old sister to the hospital for her dialysis treatment.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The metro wasn’t running. There were no buses. Even if they made it, the 42-year-old said, there was no guarantee the hospital would have generators so his sister could get the treatment.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“How is it possible that our country has arrived in this situation — so dramatic, so sad — where we are so desperate?” Manriquez asked.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Zulay Garcia just wanted water for her boys, ages 2 and 4. The 32-year-old in Caracas’ Baruta neighborhood was trying to make a purchase but having no luck.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“It’s been more than 24 hours without services, water, telephone and electricity, and I need water for the children, food for the children,” she said, her frustration growing. “They want to charge me for water in dollars and I have no dollars.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>At the national level, the blackout quickly led to finger-pointing and accusations of sabotage among sitting President Nicolas Maduro, opposition leader and <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-venezuela-crisis-20190129-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">self-declared interim president</a> Juan Guaidó, and U.S. officials.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Communication Minister Jorge Rodriguez said a hydroelectric complex in eastern Venezuela had been sabotaged, saying an attacker or attackers “tried to leave the country without power for several days.” He did not specify the nature of the sabotage he was alleging.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Maduro was more pointed, writing on Twitter: "The electricity war declared and directed by the imperialist United States against our people will be overcome!"</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Critics say the Maduro government has let the electric power system fall into decline, a symptom of the country’s deteriorating infrastructure.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Guaidó, in a video on social media, blamed the outage on “corruption in Miraflores,” a reference to the presidential palace.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The U.S., which supports Guaidó’s claim to the presidency and his calls for Maduro’s resignation, also laid the blame at the sitting president’s feet.</p> </div>
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<div><p>Women around the world expressed their demands for equality, respect and empowerment Friday to mark <topic id="EVFES00001086">International Women's Day</topic>. Here’s a look at events from around the globe.</p></div> <div><h2 class="benton-title section-title">Europe</h2></div> <div class="photoset"> <div class="diptych collage"> <figure><img src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-5c827fe7/turbine/la-fg-international-womens-day-pictires-2019-002/" alt="" title=""><figcaption class="visible-phone"> Women from the feminist movement 'Not One Less' dressed as handmaidens during a gathering in front of the Labour Ministry in Rome. (Filippo Monteforte / AFP / Getty Images) </figcaption></figure><figure><img src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-5c827fe7/turbine/la-fg-international-womens-day-pictires-2019-003/" alt="" title=""><figcaption class="visible-phone"> Female soldiers of the German Armed Forces distribute flowers to women near the Brandenburg Gate. (Felipe Trueba / EPA / Rex / Shutterstock) </figcaption></figure>
</div> <div class="clear"></div> <figcaption class="visible-desktop visible-tablet"> (Filippo Monteforte / AFP/Getty Images; Felipe Trueba / EPA/Shutterstock) </figcaption>
</div> <div class="clear"></div> <div><p>Women from the feminist movement “Not One Less” dressed as characters from “The Handmaid’s Tale,” left, during a gathering in front of the Labor Ministry in Rome, as female soldiers of the German armed forces distribute flowers to women near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin</p></div> <figure style="max-width:800px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-5c827fe7/turbine/la-fg-international-womens-day-pictires-2019-004/" alt="" title=""><figcaption> (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service) </figcaption></figure><div><p>The Russian Defense Ministry Press Service released this image of soldiers and ballerinas during a photo shoot in Yekaterinburg, Russia, to mark International Women's Day. When a Russian army recruitment office ordered a photo shoot to celebrate International Women's Day, it didn't feature any of the 45,000 women serving in the country's armed forces. Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrated International Women's Day with an over-the-top address in which he applauded Russian women as "beautiful, bright and charming."</p></div> <div class="photoset"> <div class="diptych collage"> <figure><img src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-5c82987c/turbine/la-fg-international-womens-day-pictires-2019-005/" alt="" title=""><figcaption class="visible-phone"> Women shout slogans during a protest rally marking International Women's Day in Ankara, Turkey. (EPA / Rex / Shutterstock) </figcaption></figure><figure><img src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-5c827fe7/turbine/la-fg-international-womens-day-pictires-2019-006/" alt="" title=""><figcaption class="visible-phone"> Participants of the 'Beauty run' take pictures in Minsk, Belarus. (Tatyana Zenkovich / EPA / Rex / Shutterstock) </figcaption></figure><div class="clear"></div> <div class="diptych collage"> <figure><img src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-5c827fe7/turbine/la-fg-international-womens-day-pictires-2019-007/" alt="" title=""><figcaption class="visible-phone"> Women shout slogans during a rally for gender equality and against violence in Pristina, Kosovo. (Armend Nimani / AFP/Getty Images) </figcaption></figure><figure><img src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-5c827fe7/turbine/la-fg-international-womens-day-pictires-2019-008/" alt="" title=""><figcaption class="visible-phone"> Women shout slogans during a rally for gender equality and against violence in Pristina, Kosovo. (Valdrin Xhemaj / EPA / Rex / Shutterstock) </figcaption></figure>
</div> <div class="clear"></div> <figcaption class="visible-desktop visible-tablet"> (Tatyana Zenkovich / EPA/ Shutterstock; Armend Nimani / AFP/Getty Images; Valdrin Xhemaj / EPA/Shutterstock) </figcaption>
</div> <div class="clear"></div> <div><p>Clockwise from top left; women chant slogans during a protest rally marking International Women's Day in Ankara, Turkey; participants of a “beauty run” take pictures in Minsk, Belarus; women shout slogans during a rally for gender equality and against violence in Pristina, Kosovo.</p></div> <div><h2 class="benton-title section-title">Asia</h2></div> <figure style="max-width:800px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-5c827fe7/turbine/la-fg-international-womens-day-pictires-2019-009/" alt="" title=""><figcaption> (Juni Kriswanto / AFP/Getty Images) </figcaption></figure><div><p>An Indonesian laborer, above, carries goods and gets paid $3.50 a day at a market in Surabaya as the country marks International Women's Day. Hundreds of activists marched to the presidential palace in Jakarta with banners and placards calling for more equality for Indonesian women.</p></div> <div class="photoset"> <div class="diptych collage"> <figure><img src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-5c82967e/turbine/la-fg-international-womens-day-pictires-2019-011/" alt="" title=""><figcaption class="visible-phone"> Bangladeshi women attend a candle light vigil to mark International Women's Day in Dhaka. (Munir Uz Zaman / AFP / Getty Images) </figcaption></figure><figure><img src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-5c827fe7/turbine/la-fg-international-womens-day-pictires-2019-012/" alt="" title=""><figcaption class="visible-phone"> Students paint their faces during an International Women's Day celebration at a college in Chennai, India. (Arun Sankar / AFP / Getty Images) </figcaption></figure>
</div> <div class="clear"></div> <figcaption class="visible-desktop visible-tablet"> (Munir Uz Zaman, Arun Sankar / AFP/Getty Images) </figcaption>
</div> <div class="clear"></div> <div><p>Women, left, attend a candlelight vigil to mark International Women's Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh. At right, students paint their faces during an International Women's Day celebration at a college in Chennai, India.</p></div> <div><h2 class="benton-title section-title">Africa and Middle East</h2></div> <div class="photoset"> <div class="diptych collage"> <figure><img src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-5c827fe7/turbine/la-fg-international-womens-day-pictires-2019-013/" alt="" title=""><figcaption class="visible-phone"> A woman washes clothes in a street on the International Women's Day in Guinea-Bissau. (Paulo Chun / Rex / Shutterstock) </figcaption></figure><figure><img src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-5c827fe7/turbine/la-fg-international-womens-day-pictires-2019-014/" alt="" title=""><figcaption class="visible-phone"> A woman attends a protest against femicide in Nairobi, Kenya. (Dai Kurkokawa / EPA / Rex / Shutterstock) </figcaption></figure><div class="clear"></div> <div class="diptych collage"> <figure><img src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-5c827fe7/turbine/la-fg-international-womens-day-pictires-2019-015/" alt="" title=""><figcaption class="visible-phone"> Members of the 'Women of the Wall' feminist organization react after facing ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting against them during for prayers inside the women's section of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City. (Abir Sultan / EPA / Rex / Shutterstock) </figcaption></figure><figure><img src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-5c827fe7/turbine/la-fg-international-womens-day-pictires-2019-016/" alt="" title=""><figcaption class="visible-phone"> Independent artists work on a mural on a barrier wall of the Ministry of Women's Affairs in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Rahmat Gul / Associated Press) </figcaption></figure>
</div> <div class="clear"></div> <figcaption class="visible-desktop visible-tablet"> (Paulo Chun, Dai Kurkokawa, Abir Sultan / EPA/Shutterstock; Rahmat Gul / Associated Press) </figcaption>
</div> <div class="clear"></div> <div><p>Clockwise from top left; a woman washes clothes in a street on International Women's Day in Guinea-Bissau; a protest against femicide in Nairobi, Kenya; artists work on a mural on a barrier wall of the Ministry of Women's Affairs in Kabul, Afghanistan; and members of the “Women of the Wall” feminist organization react after facing ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting against them during prayers inside the women's section of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City.</p></div> <div><h2 class="benton-title section-title">Australia</h2></div> <figure style="max-width:800px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-5c827fe7/turbine/la-fg-international-womens-day-pictires-2019-017/" alt="" title=""><figcaption> (William West / AFP/Getty Images) </figcaption></figure><div><p>Thousands march to mark International Women's Day in Melbourne.</p></div> <p class="interstitial_link"> <strong><a href="https://www.latimes.com/visuals/">For more visual journalism, please visit Framework »</a></strong> </p> </div> </div> <script>var render_tweets=function(){window.twttr.ready(function(twttr){$("*[data-tweet-id]").each(function(){var formID=$(this).closest("figure")[0];var _tweet=$(this);var options={conversation:"none",cards:"hidden"};if($(this).hasClass("conversation"))options["conversation"]="all";if($(this).hasClass("card"))options["cards"]="visible";var tweet_id=$(this).data("tweet-id");$(this).text("");if(tweet_id)twttr.widgets.createTweet(tweet_id,formID,{conversation:options["conversation"],cards:options["cards"],
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<h1 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom">Spain was seen as welcoming refugees, but in North Africa it is cracking down</h1> </div> <div class="card-footer flex-container-row flex-mobile-column align-items-center "> <div class="byline-container flex-container-row align-items-center"> <div class="hidden-mobile spaced spaced-right spaced-sm"> </div> <div class="byline-timestamp-container flex-container-row flex-tablet-column flex-mobile-column align-items-center"> <div class="byline-wrapper"> <span class="byline byline-article">By <span class="uppercase">Meg Bernhard</span> </span> </div> <span class="spaced spaced-right spaced-md hidden-mobile"></span> <div class="timestamp-wrapper flex-container-row align-items-center flex-mobile-column "> <div> <span class="timestamp timestamp-article "> Mar 08, 2019 </span> <span class="timestamp spaced spaced-sm spaced-left spaced-right hidden-tablet">|</span> <span class="timestamp timestamp-article hidden-tablet "> 7:05 AM </span> </div> <div> <span class="timestamp spaced spaced-sm spaced-left spaced-right hidden-mobile">|</span> <span class="timestamp">CEUTA, Spain</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pb-container"> </div> </header><section id="left" class="left guttered width-100"><div class="wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-utilities-lead-art" data-pb-name="Lead Art" data-pb-curated="curated" id="f0MUVW5XrdhThr"> <div class="card card-captioned "> <div class="card-content"> <figure class=""><div class="full-width img-container aspect-ratio-no-aspect"> <img class="full-width" alt="Spain was seen as welcoming refugees, but in North Africa it is cracking down" src="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/ST1VFKBprJyTfaEbV4UeTvYQws8=/415x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c7456d7/turbine/la-1551128269-e7o997ebeh-snap-image" data-src="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/Yre4BEd2IR9fbonbmyvH71hyYzE=/1200x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c7456d7/turbine/la-1551128269-e7o997ebeh-snap-image" data-src-small="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/ST1VFKBprJyTfaEbV4UeTvYQws8=/415x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c7456d7/turbine/la-1551128269-e7o997ebeh-snap-image" data-src-medium="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/7z_f86JKhyI7RwgPBPVDZ5_ygPw=/800x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c7456d7/turbine/la-1551128269-e7o997ebeh-snap-image">
</div> <figcaption class="caption-text spaced spaced-top spaced-sm flex-container-row justify-space-between "><div>Migrants celebrate after forcing their way into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Aug. 22, 2018. More than 100 migrants made their way into Ceuta after storming a barbed-wire border fence with Morocco. (Joaquin Sanchez / AFP/Getty Images)</div> </figcaption></figure>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>When 118 of them reached the other side, they hugged and yelped in disbelief. After journeying thousands of miles, after months of lying in wait in the forest for the perfect moment to cross, they had made it to Europe.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="quote" class="card card-pull-center collection-item"> <div class=" card-content pullquote spaced spaced-top spaced-right spaced-left spaced-md "> <p class="quote-text spaced spaced-bottom spaced-md">Spain has put in place a policy of externalization of border control to the Moroccans.</p> <div class="byline emdashed quote-author uppercase spaced spaced-bottom spaced-lg align-right"> Virginia Alvarez, researcher at Amnesty International Spain. </div> <hr class="spaced spaced-bottom spaced-xs">
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Spain’s government, praised in the last year as more welcoming of immigrants than others in Europe, has partnered with Morocco to stop migrants from crossing its borders, or sometimes even approaching — prompting outcry from human rights groups.</p> </div>
</div> <div class="desktop-nativo mobile-yieldmo inline-ad " data-inline-ad-count="2"> <span class="hidden-desktop"> <div class="wrapper clearfix col pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-ads-yieldmo" data-pb-name="Yieldmo Ad" data-pb-curated="curated" id=""> </div></span> <span class="hidden-mobile"><div class="wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-ads-nativo" data-pb-name="Nativo Ad" data-pb-curated="curated" id="fDA7P62OuoKgkr"> <div class="hidden-mobile"> <div id="17962" data-nativo-id-desktop="1081137" class="desktop-nativo-ad trb_ar_nt"></div> </div> </div></span> </div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“Spain has put in place a policy of externalization of border control to the Moroccans,” said Virginia Alvarez, a researcher at Amnesty International Spain. “And Morocco does not comply with human rights standards.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The forests outside Ceuta where migrants once waited to cross are quiet; those who’ve made it into the city are laying low for fear of deportation. And in the northern Moroccan city of Tangier, migrants waiting to cross the Strait of Gibraltar tell of police raiding homes and packing people on buses to the country’s south.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>As historically high-migrant destinations including Italy <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-europe-migrants-serbia-2017-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">closed their borders</a> to <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-hungary-europe-immigration-20180628-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refugees</a>, Spain became the most popular route into Europe. Last year, 57,000 people crossed illegally into Spain, according to Frontex, the European Union’s border and coast guard agency — surpassing 23,000 crossing into Italy and 56,000 <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-greece-refugee-camp-20170905-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">into Greece</a> and Cyprus.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The surge in migration <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-migrants-rescued-20180506-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to Spain</a> — including a <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-spain-migrant-ship-20180611-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boat holding more than 600 immigrants</a> turned away by Italy and Malta in June — prompted the nation to open a temporary refugee camp in Cadiz.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>But human rights groups argue that Europe and especially Spain, which has struggled to accommodate the new arrivals, are outsourcing border policing to Morocco.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Last year, the European Union pledged about $159 million to Morocco in order to contain migration into Spain. In 2018, Moroccan officials intercepted 89,000 attempts to illegally cross into Spain, according to the country’s interior ministry.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="image" class="card card-pull-center card-captioned collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <figure class=""><div class="full-width img-container "> <img class="b-lazy full-width" alt="A razor-wire-topped border fence separates the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco." data-src="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/OLta0LuKpFvfw7oz_U2as0W4pSY=/1400x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c75e9f7/turbine/la-1551231470-baoctdqzkg-snap-image" data-src-small="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/NAJcNzFF4_6AqwAdr-5BeJ5GRkg=/415x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c75e9f7/turbine/la-1551231470-baoctdqzkg-snap-image" data-src-medium="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/FbwoiWi0F2uPWJ6oR2JGh2nydEY=/800x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c75e9f7/turbine/la-1551231470-baoctdqzkg-snap-image" src="/pb/resources/images/tinygif.gif">
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Morocco is building new encampments for officers patrolling its border with Ceuta, an autonomous city with its own government like Spanish regions such as Catalonia or Basque Country. The Moroccans work in tandem with the Spanish civil guard, which monitors the fence’s cameras and motion sensors to detect potential border crossers.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>And across the country last year, Moroccan police swept up thousands of immigrants in home raids, according to data collected by Amnesty International.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>In many cases, police send immigrants to the south of Morocco instead of back to their home countries.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“They're treating them like they are their owners, like [the immigrants] are sheep,” said Santiago Agrelo Martinez, the archbishop of Tangier. “They can put them and take them wherever they want.”</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Thirty miles southwest of Ceuta, in Tangier, five Senegalese immigrants share the bottom floor of a building in the quiet neighborhood of Souani. Every month, they pool $460 for the<strong> </strong>two-bedroom flat tucked away in an alley off a street lined with orange trees and restaurants.<strong> </strong></p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Their living situation is unusual, said Cheikh Mbaye, who has lived in the flat for three years and plans to return to Senegal; many<strong> </strong>immigrants save their money to pay smugglers, and instead cram into smaller apartments with 20 or 30 other people.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Mbaye and the others chose to live in Souani because the risk of a police raid is lower compared with other neighborhoods.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“Each day [the police] come to break into the houses of the migrants who are here, to catch them and take them away to Tiznit,” a city in southern Morocco, said Mbaye, 30.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Lamine Diop, 25, sat on a faded red cushion as he recounted the four times he had been detained and sent to Tiznit. One early morning, police broke down the door to an apartment where he had been staying with more than 25 other immigrants. He was handcuffed, taken to a detention center, then bused to Tiznit. Then he headed north again.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Ndeye Marieme Diop, 28, who is not related to Lamine Diop, has also been deported several times. She lived in Saudi Arabia and Casablanca before paying smugglers 500 euros for a place to stay in Tangier while she waited to cross into Spain. Her father had died and she considered it her responsibility as the oldest child to find a way to earn money for her family, including her 7-year-old child.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>In October, police broke down the door of her apartment, and she, too was sent to Tiznit,<strong> </strong>she said.<strong> </strong>When she returned to Tangier, she met Mbaye, who offered her a more stable place to stay.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Both Marieme and Lamine Diop<strong> </strong>said they planned to pay smugglers for a boat trip across the Strait of Gibraltar, a nine-mile stretch where the meeting of the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea creates powerful and dangerous crosscurrents<strong>.</strong></p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Thousands made the attempt last year. Many didn’t make it. On Jan. 12, 53 migrants drowned when their boat capsized in the Alboran Sea.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Immigrants are increasingly choosing a sea route to Spain, according to a government official in Ceuta not authorized to speak on the topic. Spain would not deport immigrants rescued at sea, the official said.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>But the country is<strong> </strong>quick to deport immigrants when they cross by land<strong>. </strong>For years officials have used a controversial practice known as “pushbacks” to immediately return immigrants to Morocco from the two historically Spanish-controlled cities in northern Africa, Melilla and Ceuta.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>In 2018, 1,977 immigrants arrived illegally<strong> </strong>in Ceuta, according to the Spanish government’s delegation in the city, a decrease from previous years.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="image" class="card card-pull-center card-captioned collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <figure class=""><div class="full-width img-container "> <img class="b-lazy full-width" alt="Police watch over some of the hundreds of migrants that managed to get past the border fence in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave bordering Morocco, in July 2018." data-src="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/1-IaPXREWhSe7rGvYpHv5BpbbaY=/1400x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c7458f3/turbine/la-1551128811-4vk6nxya2k-snap-image" data-src-small="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/QG8jel5iGzzCEz-_yXplqkMQsV8=/415x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c7458f3/turbine/la-1551128811-4vk6nxya2k-snap-image" data-src-medium="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/CqS-Ti3qiOREXpBI4nrRxwx8mPc=/800x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c7458f3/turbine/la-1551128811-4vk6nxya2k-snap-image" src="/pb/resources/images/tinygif.gif">
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p data-page="2">But after 800 migrants stormed the border in July, Spain reactivated a 1992 agreement with Morocco allowing for express deportations of migrants to their point of entry — effectively legalizing the rapid deportations already taking place. So when the 118 sub-Saharan migrants crossed the Ceuta fence in August, the policy was in place.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“They rarely have a genuine chance to apply for asylum,” said Judith Sunderland, associate director for Human Rights Watch’s Europe and Central Asia division. “They whole point of these readmissions agreements is a quick agreement for returns.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Spanish officials say the migrants were told of the opportunity to apply for asylum but declined. The central government in Madrid received 100 applications for asylum in Ceuta last year, the majority from Algerians.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The Spanish government has defended its practices at the Moroccan border, saying the immigrants who tried to enter Ceuta in July and August were violent, throwing acid and quicklime at police at the border.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“Legally, it’s a very distinct situation from the migrants who we sometimes have to rescue,” Spanish Vice President Carmen Calvo said in August, calling what happened at the Ceuta border “unacceptable.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Inside the city’s fences, Spanish officials are grappling with a different immigration problem: More than 300 unaccompanied Moroccans younger than 18 are estimated to live in Ceuta.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Some entered legally with their parents and stayed. Others hid under trucks or sneaked through the border with the thousands of Moroccans who cross into Ceuta each day to work.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Though they can stay at a crowded center for minors, many sleep between the concrete blocks of a jetty near the port.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>A new proposal from the regional government of Melilla would give unaccompanied minors a deadline of three months before they are sent to their home countries or to other immigrant centers in Spain. One evening, standing on a curb near the port’s western wall, a group of Moroccan immigrants discussed the proposal, worried a similar one could take effect in Ceuta.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Taufek Liaduni, 17, said he wanted to get out of Ceuta as soon as possible. Taufek dropped out of school at 14 and was unable to find work in Tétouan, his hometown. Two months ago, he crossed into Ceuta underneath a trailer, clutching its metal underside and breathing in fumes for an hour as it idled in traffic.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>He sleeps under the jetty, braving the cold sea air and the occasional rat that scrambles into his sleeping space. During the day, he wanders the city center asking for food and money. By night, he stakes out the port, waiting for the perfect moment to clamber over into a boat bound for the Iberian Peninsula.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“There’s no other way,” Taufek said.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Some of the city’s residents complain about the immigrants and unaccompanied minors. Posters on the 3,000-member Facebook group “Citizen Insecurity Ceuta” accuse immigrants of committing crime and call for tighter<strong> </strong>border security.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>But some in Ceuta<strong> </strong>are more sympathetic to the immigrants.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Jose Berrocal lived on his family’s farm at the border with Morocco until he moved into the city center five decades ago, when he was 15 years old. Back then there was no border fence, and people wishing to cross the border could do so easily.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Now, he said from behind the counter of his tobacco shop, everything has changed. His cousins still live on the farm, near where the migrants stormed into Ceuta in August. Spanish civil guard members patrol the road leading to the farm, and no unauthorized visitors are allowed.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Berrocal spoke of the migrants as he handed a customer change:<strong> </strong>“They’re just trying to find a way to make a living. I understand that.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item card-border-bottom card-border-bottom-thick card-border-bottom-dark"> <div class=" card-content "> <p><strong>Bernhard is a special correspondent.</strong></p> </div>
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</div> <figcaption class="caption-text spaced spaced-top spaced-sm flex-container-row justify-space-between "><div>Iraqi paramilitary members carry the coffins of fellow fighters during a funeral Thursday in their hometown of Tuz Khurmatu. They were killed a day earlier in an ambush outside Mosul. (Marwan Ibrahim / AFP/Getty Images)</div> </figcaption></figure>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Iraqi authorities quickly identified the culprit: Islamic State.</p> </div>
</div> <div class="desktop-nativo mobile-yieldmo inline-ad " data-inline-ad-count="2"> <span class="hidden-desktop"> <div class="wrapper clearfix col pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-ads-yieldmo" data-pb-name="Yieldmo Ad" data-pb-curated="curated" id=""> </div></span> <span class="hidden-mobile"><div class="wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-ads-nativo" data-pb-name="Nativo Ad" data-pb-curated="curated" id="f00i1Eat1FLgkr"> <div class="hidden-mobile"> <div id="17163" data-nativo-id-desktop="1081137" class="desktop-nativo-ad trb_ar_nt"></div> </div> </div></span> </div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The attack, one of the deadliest since Iraq declared military victory over the extremist group in December 2017, was the clearest sign yet that the war isn’t over.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>It has merely shifted to a new phase: Islamic State is trying to mount a comeback, and the Iraqi military is trying to root out sympathizers and sleeper cells still embedded in the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-islamic-state-caliphate-detainees-20190217-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">extensive territory</a> the group once controlled.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>By many accounts, the government is failing to contain a budding insurgency, the sort of resilient, underground enemy that has outlived governments around the world.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Stripped of its territory — which once encompassed a third of both Iraq and Syria — Islamic State has reverted to its roots, using small, self-contained teams of operatives to conduct small-scale attacks and assassinations and rebuild its smuggling and ransom operations.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“We’re not talking about the networks they used to have. Now it’s cells of five or six people,” said Shamkhi Mansour, a colonel in the intelligence branch of Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Service.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Iraqi military officials, security experts and the U.S. government said that Iraq has failed to develop the extensive intelligence network that would offer the best chance of rooting out the militants.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“We had a victory in that we kicked out Daesh from cities, but we’ve failed in pursuing them in the rural areas and ferreting them out,” said Hisham Hashimi, a counter-terrorism advisor to the government, using a derisive Arabic acronym for Islamic State.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The Pentagon’s inspector general <a href="https://media.defense.gov/2019/Feb/05/2002086500/-1/-1/1/FY2019_LIG_OIRREPORT.PDF" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported last month</a> that Iraq lacked reconnaissance assets, intelligence personnel and surveillance capabilities needed to counteract the group, which advocates an extreme version of Sunni Islam.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Instead, Iraqi forces have resorted to rounding up large numbers of Sunnis and holding sham trials of Islamic State suspects, a strategy that costs the Shiite-dominated government vital support and could increase support for the extremists.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>According to activists and security personnel, tens of thousands of people across the country have been wrongly accused of supporting Islamic State because their names are similar to those of wanted militants. There has also been little allowance made for the many people who supported the extremists less out of ideological conviction than out of fear for their lives.<strong> </strong></p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Iraqis caught in the dragnet can languish for months in crowded jails while police visit their neighborhoods to investigate. In many cases, according to three security officers, the police extort bribes to clear people of wrongdoing.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Iraq is all too familiar with the dangers of this strategy.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Nouri Maliki, a Shiite Muslim who served as Iraq’s prime minister from 2006 to 2014, used it against Islamic State.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>At the time, the group was operating clandestinely, forging links in rural areas with Sunni leaders sympathetic to its cause, attempting to lay the groundwork for a massive takeover.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Hoping to stomp out any support, Maliki transformed security services into death squads that oppressed Sunni-dominated areas. His <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-iraq-mosul-maliki-20150817-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approach backfired</a>.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>In mid-2014, when Islamic State militants began seizing Iraqi territory and building a caliphate, many Sunnis welcomed them as liberators.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Many Iraqis insist that history is unlikely to repeat itself.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>In former Islamic State strongholds such as Mosul, the second-largest city in Iraq, it’s difficult to find anybody who speaks favorably about the group.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“There is not a single citizen in Mosul who respects Daesh,” said Bashir Hussein Fathi, a politician there. “I haven’t seen a single citizen complimenting them.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“Even those who were considered good people and who joined the group — now people speak of them badly,” he said. “It’s become a black spot on someone’s character.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>He said residents were cooperating more with security services to pinpoint Islamic State infiltrators, especially after the government reactivated local police groups.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Maj. Gen. Saad Allaq, head of Iraq’s military intelligence directorate, lauded residents in Islamic State areas who “had a primary role in bringing us information against Daesh.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>But he and others said the government was not spending enough funds to cultivate new sources.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>In one case described by a security expert who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the subject, the Iraqi government nearly missed the chance to cultivate a high-level defector from Islamic State. The U.S.-led coalition in the region finally stepped in and paid $2 million for his cooperation.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Another problem is that with seven different intelligence services operating in the country, all working with no clear jurisdiction, there is a greater chance of important information getting lost.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>A Mosul-based special forces colonel who spoke on the condition that he not be named blamed the issue on a lack of trust among the different security services.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“In America they combined databases and increased coordination over two buildings falling,” he said, referring to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“We haven't done this over whole cities falling.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Perhaps most worrisome, Islamic State has started operating more openly in rural areas southwest of Mosul, including Hatra, the Hamrin Mountains and the deserts of Anbar.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“We should be having military operations in those remote regions, but there aren’t even reconnaissance flights,” said Mansour, the colonel.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The problem is set to become worse. With Islamic State losing its final bastions in Syria, Iraq has already taken back tens of thousands of its own citizens who had joined the militants.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>More are expected to return, including many <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-isis-father-20190305-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">children steeped in Islamic State’s murderous ideology</a> and forced to take up arms in its “Cubs of the Caliphate” program.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p data-page="2">Preventing the militants from gaining a bigger foothold will also require the government to address <a href="https://www.latimes.com/visuals/framework/la-me-fw-mosul-bomb-defuser-20170422-htmlstory.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more basic concerns</a>.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Beset by budgetary concerns, the government has provided little compensation and neglected responsibilities such as lifting rubble and even removing corpses.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“People want a good relationship with the government,” said Fathi, the politician. “But it has offered them no plan for people to be patient or to at least know what will happen to them.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item card-border-bottom card-border-bottom-thick card-border-bottom-dark"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“The problem is that the government doesn’t keep its promises.”</p> </div>
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<h1 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom">Chinese tech giant Huawei sues the U.S. in Texas in pushback against security risk claims</h1> </div> <div class="card-footer flex-container-row flex-mobile-column align-items-center "> <div class="byline-container flex-container-row align-items-center"> <div class="hidden-mobile spaced spaced-right spaced-sm"> </div> <div class="byline-timestamp-container flex-container-row flex-tablet-column flex-mobile-column align-items-center"> <div class="byline-wrapper"> <span class="byline byline-article">By <a class="uppercase" aria-label="Robyn Dixon" href="/la-bio-robyn-dixon-staff.html#nt=byline" rel="author"><span class="uppercase">Robyn Dixon</span></a> </span> </div> <span class="spaced spaced-right spaced-md hidden-mobile"></span> <div class="timestamp-wrapper flex-container-row align-items-center flex-mobile-column "> <div> <span class="timestamp timestamp-article "> Mar 07, 2019 </span> <span class="timestamp spaced spaced-sm spaced-left spaced-right hidden-tablet">|</span> <span class="timestamp timestamp-article hidden-tablet "> 3:20 PM </span> </div> <div> <span class="timestamp spaced spaced-sm spaced-left spaced-right hidden-mobile">|</span> <span class="timestamp">Beijing</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pb-container"> </div> </header><section id="left" class="left guttered width-100"><div class="wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-utilities-lead-art" data-pb-name="Lead Art" data-pb-curated="curated" id="f0MUVW5XrdhThr"> <div class="card card-captioned "> <div class="card-content"> <figure class=""><div class="full-width img-container aspect-ratio-no-aspect"> <img class="full-width" alt="Chinese tech giant Huawei sues the U.S. in Texas in pushback against security risk claims" src="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/nYvMR-9wLERXfuMLgDK26fUq5ZM=/415x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c8173e7/turbine/la-1551987681-nb92se052i-snap-image" data-src="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/7lrAfK7koFfEO5t0MPvbepWeDBc=/1200x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c8173e7/turbine/la-1551987681-nb92se052i-snap-image" data-src-small="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/nYvMR-9wLERXfuMLgDK26fUq5ZM=/415x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c8173e7/turbine/la-1551987681-nb92se052i-snap-image" data-src-medium="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/JJCuogt5wNsBAMigBjBq0vS4GqY=/800x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c8173e7/turbine/la-1551987681-nb92se052i-snap-image">
</div> <figcaption class="caption-text spaced spaced-top spaced-sm flex-container-row justify-space-between "><div>A Huawei logo is displayed at a shop in Shenzhen, China, on Thursday. (Kin Cheung / Associated Press)</div> </figcaption></figure>
</div> </div> </div> <div class="wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-body" data-pb-name="Article Body (Elements)" data-pb-curated="curated" id="f0aYpgiXrdhThr"> <div class=""> </div> <div class="collection collection-cards"> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p data-page="1">Huawei is suing the U.S. government over a law banning federal agencies from using its equipment, the latest maneuver in the Chinese tech giant’s global offensive against American pressure and criticism that it poses a national security risk.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The White House says Beijing could exploit the technology to carry out cyberspace intrusions and espionage, and Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo recently warned European partners not to use Huawei to equip 5G networks.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>But Huawei, desperate to protect its share of a crucial market, has been fighting back.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The lawsuit filed in federal court in Plano, Texas — home to Huawei’s U.S. headquarters — targets a U.S. ban on government agencies using its equipment or dealing with third parties that use its equipment.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>"The U.S. Congress has repeatedly failed to produce any evidence to support its restrictions on Huawei products,” Guo said at a news conference in Shenzhen, China.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, last week, Huawei boasted it had already signed up 64 countries for 5G equipment. Governments in important markets such as Britain, Germany, Canada and India are still deciding, and some telecommunications firms in France, Japan, Germany and Britain have expressed concerns about using Huawei technology in their 5G networks.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Huawei has been trying to shrug off its reputation for having a closed, opaque corporate culture. In Brussels this week, the company launched a cybersecurity transparency center. It has taken to social media and recently launched the English-language website Huawei Facts with an “Open Letter to the U.S. Media,” saying, “Don’t believe everything you hear. Come and see us.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Huawei has also been wooing journalists, according to Reuters, which reported that 10 of its senior staffers were offered salaries of up to $200,000 to jump ship and work for Huawei’s public relations department.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>It took out a full-page ad in New Zealand newspapers after that country barred its equipment from 5G networks. And it paid for a sponsored column by cybersecurity analyst Henry B. Wolfe published by the New York Times’ T Brand Studio calling on Australia to reverse a similar ban.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The company has urged its foreign employees to post glowing comments about Huawei, to send the company headquarters any positive commentary they can find online and to share the Huawei Facts website and Twitter handle with clients, customers and partners.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Last week, a slick video featuring schoolchildren singing “Huawei Is Beautiful” circulated on Chinese social media; the company said the video was made by supporters on the internet without its participation. Huawei “appreciates customers' attentions and concerns,” a company statement said.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>In his news conference at Huawei’s Chinese headquarters, Guo, who serves in the company’s rotating chairmanship, accused U.S. agencies of hacking Huawei servers and stealing emails and source code.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The allegation that the National Security Agency hacked Huawei’s servers in 2007 surfaced in 2014, based on documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Huawei is not the first company the U.S. government has barred over national security concerns. In September 2017, government agencies were barred from using software from the Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab. The company sued, but its case was dismissed.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p><a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-china-huawei-20190129-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chinese</a> Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said Thursday that he was unaware of Huawei’s legal action against the U.S. government but that it was “totally reasonable and totally understandable.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Concern about Huawei is based partly on a 2017 Chinese law requiring Chinese companies to cooperate with that country’s national security agency.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei has said he would rather close the company than compromise clients’ security or give national security officials access to data.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>But European Commission Vice President Andrus Ansip has said that Huawei being subject to China’s national security authorities was troubling. He said at a news conference last month that the task was not to look for evidence of past breaches by Huawei but to assess the risk of a future threat, Reuters reported.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull — who led the government when it barred Huawei and another Chinese company, ZTE, from participating in its 5G rollout — gave much the same assessment Tuesday during a <a href="https://www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/media/address-to-the-henry-jackson-society-london">speech</a> in London.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“It is important to remember that a threat is the combination of capability and intent,” he said. “Capability can take years, decades, to develop and in many cases won’t be attainable at all. But intent can change in a heartbeat.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Australia is part of the “Five Eyes” network with which the U.S. shares intelligence, including Britain, Canada and New Zealand. Turnbull said pressure from Washington played no part in Australia’s decision on Huawei.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Huawei has been at the center of accusations of intellectual property theft from U.S. companies, a core grievance in the U.S.-China trade war. In January, U.S. prosecutors indicted the company in two cases — over allegations of intellectual property theft and fraud over hidden dealings with Iran. They accused Ren of repeatedly lying to U.S. officials over business dealings in Iran in breach of U.S. sanctions.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, Ren’s daughter, was <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-china-huawei-meng-wanzhou-20181209-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> in Canada in December and has been indicted by the U.S. on charges of fraud over business dealings in Iran. She faces a May 8 extradition hearing in Vancouver in a case that has outraged Chinese officials. Meng is suing Canadian authorities over what she alleges were breaches of her rights during her arrest.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The vehemence of Chinese officials’ reaction to Meng’s arrest has raised questions about the closeness of company executives to state officials.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p data-page="2">China’s pressure on Canada to release Meng was swift and intense. Chinese authorities arrested two Canadians, whom it has accused of stealing state secrets, and boosted the 15-year drug sentence of another Canadian to the death penalty. Authorities this week banned imports of Canadian canola seeds by a major supplier.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>He raised <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-china-trump-canada-20181212-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comments</a> by President Trump, who said in December that he would be willing to intervene in the Meng case if it helped secure a trade deal.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>New Zealand, which banned Huawei from its rollout of a 5G network, and Australia have seen recent actions from China that some suspect may have been in retaliation.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>A New Zealand commercial airliner was turned back on its way to China for “technical reasons” because it lacked registration, Australian coal shipments to a Chinese port were delayed for “quality checks” and an Australian <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-china-writer-arrested-20190124-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writer</a> was arrested in China.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item card-border-bottom card-border-bottom-thick card-border-bottom-dark"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Meanwhile, news came that Australia’s Parliament had been hacked by a “sophisticated state actor,” although the country’s identity has not emerged.</p> </div>
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<h1 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom">Thailand bans political party that nominated ex-princess for prime minister</h1> </div> <div class="card-footer flex-container-row flex-mobile-column align-items-center "> <div class="byline-container flex-container-row align-items-center"> <div class="hidden-mobile spaced spaced-right spaced-sm"> </div> <div class="byline-timestamp-container flex-container-row flex-tablet-column flex-mobile-column align-items-center"> <div class="byline-wrapper"> <span class="byline byline-article">By <a class="uppercase" aria-label="Shashank Bengali" href="/la-bio-shashank-bengali-staff.html#nt=byline" rel="author"><span class="uppercase">Shashank Bengali</span></a> and <span class="uppercase">Poypiti Amatatham</span> </span> </div> <span class="spaced spaced-right spaced-md hidden-mobile"></span> <div class="timestamp-wrapper flex-container-row align-items-center flex-mobile-column "> <div> <span class="timestamp timestamp-article "> Mar 07, 2019 </span> <span class="timestamp spaced spaced-sm spaced-left spaced-right hidden-tablet">|</span> <span class="timestamp timestamp-article hidden-tablet "> 7:40 AM </span> </div> <div> <span class="timestamp spaced spaced-sm spaced-left spaced-right hidden-mobile">|</span> <span class="timestamp">Bangkok</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pb-container"> </div> </header><section id="left" class="left guttered width-100"><div class="wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-utilities-lead-art" data-pb-name="Lead Art" data-pb-curated="curated" id="f0MUVW5XrdhThr"> <div class="card card-captioned "> <div class="card-content"> <figure class=""><div class="full-width img-container aspect-ratio-no-aspect"> <img class="full-width" alt="Thailand bans political party that nominated ex-princess for prime minister" src="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/W9Jf7thG2Yb0WznbO9bvLOB9HEI=/415x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c80f656/turbine/la-1551955536-cza3j5vmhs-snap-image" data-src="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/0MP6d2qS6Yh7L5tshRHfb4psioI=/1200x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c80f656/turbine/la-1551955536-cza3j5vmhs-snap-image" data-src-small="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/W9Jf7thG2Yb0WznbO9bvLOB9HEI=/415x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c80f656/turbine/la-1551955536-cza3j5vmhs-snap-image" data-src-medium="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/LsVTIDJMyRTHroyLsIZeIO-4hX8=/800x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c80f656/turbine/la-1551955536-cza3j5vmhs-snap-image">
</div> <figcaption class="caption-text spaced spaced-top spaced-sm flex-container-row justify-space-between "><div>Thai Raksa Chart Party leader Preechapol Pongpanich, center, arrives at the Constitutional Court in Bangkok, March 7, 2019. (Lillian Suwanrumpha / AFP/Getty Images)</div> </figcaption></figure>
</div> </div> </div> <div class="wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-body" data-pb-name="Article Body (Elements)" data-pb-curated="curated" id="f0aYpgiXrdhThr"> <div class=""> </div> <div class="collection collection-cards"> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p data-page="1">Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Thursday banned the political party that nominated a former princess to run for prime minister, dealing a blow to opposition forces vying to defeat allies of the military-led government in the first election since a 2014 coup.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The court ruled that the Thai Raksa Chart party’s nomination of Ubolratana Mahidol, the eldest child of Thailand’s revered late king and sister to its current monarch, undermined the monarchy and was “hostile to the democratic system.”</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The party will be dissolved and its executives barred from politics for 10 years, judges said.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“It is necessary for the Thai monarchy to stay above politics and stay neutral in politics,” Taweekiat Meenakanit, one of the judges, said in a verdict broadcast live on television. “Do not allow any opportunities for the Thai monarchy to be used for political purposes.”</p> </div>
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</div> <figcaption class="caption-text spaced spaced-top spaced-sm flex-container-row justify-space-between "><div>Thai Princess Ubolratana Mahidol, shown in a 2013 appearance in Santa Monica to promote Thailand as a filming destination, was not in the Constitutional Court for Thursday's hearing on the dissolution of the party that nominated her for prime minister. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)</div> </figcaption></figure>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The ruling was not a surprise. The party’s <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-thailand-princess-20190208-story.html">decision last month</a> to nominate the 67-year-old Ubolratana — a UCLA master’s graduate who relinquished her royal title when she married an American in 1972 but is still treated as royalty by Thais — stunned the nation and broke with a more than century-old tradition of the royal family avoiding elected office.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>It also raised the prospect of the return of Thaksin Shinawatra, the telecommunications tycoon and former prime minister who is linked to Thai Raksa Chart and lives in exile to avoid corruption charges that he says are politically motivated.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Thaksin is regarded as a dangerous upstart by the military — which ousted him from office in 2006 — and by supporters of the royal family, who regard him as insufficiently deferential to the monarchy.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The nomination of a royal to lead a Thaksin-linked party suggested a rapprochement that could have ended more than a decade of political clashes between rival Thai political factions that have occasionally <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/14/world/la-fg-0515-thailand-protests-20100515">turned deadly</a>.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>But the nomination was <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-thailand-princess-20190209-story.html">short-lived</a>. The party withdrew her candidacy after her brother and Thailand’s current monarch, King Maha Vajiralongkorn, called it “extremely inappropriate.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Election officials formally canceled her nomination days later and asked the Constitutional Court to punish the party, which led to Thursday’s ruling.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The ex-princess did not appear for the verdict but responded on Instagram, where photos on her private account indicated she was in Berlin. Followers commented that the party had been dissolved, to which Ubolratana responded: “It is sad and depressing.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Human rights groups denounced the verdict, saying it would diminish the fairness of the March 24 election that the Thai military has held up as a sign of the country’s return to democratic rule.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“This decision highlights the Thai authorities’ abuse of judicial powers to restrict the peaceful association and expression of the political opposition,” Amnesty International’s Thailand campaigner, Katherine Gerson, said in a statement.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“This far-reaching measure raises strong concerns about the human rights to freedom of association and expression in the period leading to the elections.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Two parties associated with Thaksin have previously been banned, and his sister Yingluck was removed as prime minister in <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-thailand-coup-20140523-story.html">2014</a>, the most recent of more than a dozen coups in Thailand’s modern history.</p> </div>
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<h1 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom">Would you risk your life for a truffle? In Iraq’s desert, the hunt mixes superstition and danger</h1> </div> <div class="card-footer flex-container-row flex-mobile-column align-items-center "> <div class="byline-container flex-container-row align-items-center"> <div class="hidden-mobile spaced spaced-right spaced-sm"> </div> <div class="byline-timestamp-container flex-container-row flex-tablet-column flex-mobile-column align-items-center"> <div class="byline-wrapper"> <span class="byline byline-article">By <span class="uppercase">Nabih Bulos</span> </span> </div> <span class="spaced spaced-right spaced-md hidden-mobile"></span> <div class="timestamp-wrapper flex-container-row align-items-center flex-mobile-column "> <div> <span class="timestamp timestamp-article "> Mar 07, 2019 </span> <span class="timestamp spaced spaced-sm spaced-left spaced-right hidden-tablet">|</span> <span class="timestamp timestamp-article hidden-tablet "> 3:00 AM </span> </div> <div> <span class="timestamp spaced spaced-sm spaced-left spaced-right hidden-mobile">|</span> <span class="timestamp">EKEYRAN, IRAQ</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pb-container"> </div> </header><section id="left" class="left guttered width-100"><div class="wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-utilities-lead-art" data-pb-name="Lead Art" data-pb-curated="curated" id="f0MUVW5XrdhThr"> <div class="card card-captioned "> <div class="card-content"> <figure class=""><div class="full-width img-container aspect-ratio-no-aspect"> <img class="full-width" alt="Would you risk your life for a truffle? In Iraq’s desert, the hunt mixes superstition and danger" src="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/DmczzSqK-lZ87xlEimp3vBbU3iU=/415x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c79a0bb/turbine/la-1551474871-4gvj6fziaf-snap-image" data-src="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/nWYgczRRM-lg2BBCM6Tz79KMCXw=/1200x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c79a0bb/turbine/la-1551474871-4gvj6fziaf-snap-image" data-src-small="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/DmczzSqK-lZ87xlEimp3vBbU3iU=/415x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c79a0bb/turbine/la-1551474871-4gvj6fziaf-snap-image" data-src-medium="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/klUr1lSKrwEksVwI28BfvmOpNRE=/800x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c79a0bb/turbine/la-1551474871-4gvj6fziaf-snap-image">
</div> <figcaption class="caption-text spaced spaced-top spaced-sm flex-container-row justify-space-between "><div>In Nuqrat al Salman, a southern Iraqi town that was the site of Saddam Hussein's most remote prison, truffle merchants ply their trade in dedicated markets. (Nabih Bulos / Los Angeles Times)</div> </figcaption></figure>
</div> </div> </div> <div class="wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-body" data-pb-name="Article Body (Elements)" data-pb-curated="curated" id="f0aYpgiXrdhThr"> <div class=""> </div> <div class="collection collection-cards"> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p data-page="1">To reach Ekeyran, a place so desolate no one has bothered to put it on a map, you must abandon the bustle of Baghdad for a 173-mile jaunt to the city of Samawah, dodge camel caravans while driving over to Al Salman district — onetime home to <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2006/dec/30/world/fg-hussein30" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saddam Hussein</a>’s harshest prison — then find a Bedouin guide to drive you two more hours deep into the uncharted desert plains near the Iraqi-Saudi border.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>There, buffeted by roaring winds amid near-freezing temperatures, you too can slowly wander the barren landscape, knife in hand as you scour the ground for hours in search of the almost cruelly obscure signs hinting at your quarry.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>What is it you seek? The inauspicious-looking <em>bonne bouche</em> known as the desert truffle.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Delicate, subtle, light yet satisfying, the desert truffle has much of the magic of its more prestigious (and rarer) European counterpart.</p> </div>
</div> <div class="desktop-nativo mobile-yieldmo inline-ad " data-inline-ad-count="2"> <span class="hidden-desktop"> <div class="wrapper clearfix col pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-ads-yieldmo" data-pb-name="Yieldmo Ad" data-pb-curated="curated" id=""> </div></span> <span class="hidden-mobile"><div class="wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-ads-nativo" data-pb-name="Nativo Ad" data-pb-curated="curated" id="fFFgxI1lvJLgkr"> <div class="hidden-mobile"> <div id="13322" data-nativo-id-desktop="1081137" class="desktop-nativo-ad trb_ar_nt"></div> </div> </div></span> </div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Because Iraqi food has all the subtlety of a stampede — consider <em>kahi</em>, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-iraq-kahi-breakfast-snap-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a flaked pastry soaked in cardamon-infused syrup and clotted cream</a> — you might think truffles would be ill-suited for such a cuisine.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>You’d be wrong.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Everything about the truffle exemplifies the food-as-challenge aspect of so many ingredients in the Iraqi cookbook.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>And for those who prize the desert truffle — and many do, sometimes at the risk of their lives — finding it means nothing less than a quest for treasure, one that mixes equal parts timing, superstition and danger.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>First the timing. To get truffles, you need water, a fair amount of it too. But it all depends on when the first rain begins to fall.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Storms in October, November, even as late as December can herald a good harvest. Anything after, says Nofal Saleh, a mustachioed 35-year-old Bedouin, is just too late.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Saleh, who has long roamed Iraq’s south for <em>kama, </em>as truffle is known in Syria and Iraq, is perched one winter day in the passenger seat of a van, scanning the horizon. He’s swathed in a fur-lined <em>abaya, </em>a long cloak, and black-and-white <em>kaffiyeh </em>headdress to protect him from the elements. He points to what appears to be a random spot on the road, a signal to veer off into the desert.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>As the van bumps over the harsh terrain, Saleh points to what looks like one indistinguishable area after another, yet he produces a Bedouin name for each as he marks a path heading ever closer to the Saudi border.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>He counts off fingers as he begins a detailed litany of good and bad truffle seasons stretching back to 2004.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“This year the first rains fell on the 20th of October,” he says. “Pretty good.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The storms are also where superstition comes in. Thunder and lightning are said to boost the alchemy of the truffle, a species of mushroom that grows in different types all across the arid and semiarid areas around the Middle East and zones around the Mediterranean.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The most common truffle type here is <em>terfezia, </em>an off-white, sponge-surfaced variety that looks rather like the rocks dotting much of the flat sand and gravel plains of Iraq’s south. That hard terrain perhaps explains the need for meteorological fireworks. Thunderclaps crack the surface of the ground like an eggshell, some say, allowing the microscopic spores to spread below the sand to flourish.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Science, however, gives a less fanciful explanation, asserting that thunderstorms generate water-soluble nitrogenous compounds. They fall with the rain and encourage growth.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Timing is also essential for the harvest. The season is fleeting, lasting a mere three months in the arid lands of Iraq and Syria. But woe be to those who dally, warns Saleh.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“By late March it becomes disgusting,” he says, wrinkling his nose at the remembrance of past truffle hunts gone bad. “It has worms in it and smells like a rotting corpse.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Saleh continues scanning the seemingly<strong> </strong>unchanging landscape, then suddenly announces it is time to stop. He takes a moment to adjust his robes, wrapping them around himself in preparation for the elements. He opens the door, and the pressurized quiet of the cabin gives way to a growling wind.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>How do you know your quarry lurks under the surface, without the benefit of truffle-sniffing dogs or pigs, which are considered unclean by Islam? With great difficulty, at least for the untrained eye.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>One clue is the appearance of cracks in the soil, indicating the truffle is bulging its way toward the surface. Another is the appearance of a certain grass, called <em>aneyd</em> by the Bedouins here. If you see it, they say, truffles are nearby.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>This observation is also borne out by research, with studies finding that desert truffles, like most of their ilk, form symbiotic relationships with certain plants and can be found close to their roots.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Unfortunately, <em>aneyd</em> looks almost identical to another weed.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>That is one explanation as to why, after walking the uninterrupted plains, squinting at the ground, you may find yourself sans truffle.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>None of this slows Asaad Jabaali, who is leaning against the wind, his robes flapping. The 23-year-old pounces on one promising spot, then another.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Once all the clues converge, he squats over the prospective site, brandishing a long kitchen knife to cut a quick circle around the spot. He works the surface with both hands to reveal the rotund outlines of the truffle. He gently works the knife at an angle underneath the truffle, and pops it out.</p> </div>
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</div> <figcaption class="caption-text spaced spaced-top spaced-sm flex-container-row justify-space-between "><div>Truffle season is fleeting, lasting a mere three months in the arid lands of Iraq and Syria. (Nabih Bulos / Los Angeles Times)</div> </figcaption></figure>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>It gets a quick examination, with Jabaali dusting the truffle off before plopping it in a ragged-looking cloth pouch and continuing his search.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>But harvesting can also be where the danger comes in, for the finest truffles are found where foragers face extreme threats. One such danger zone is the Iraqi-Saudi border, where in December, Saleh says, overzealous Iraqi guards shot what they thought was a smuggler but was actually a truffle forager.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“The truffles there are huge, the size of a pomegranate,” says Saleh, a hint of awe in his voice. “But only the guards are benefiting from them now.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>To the southeast you might encounter <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2002/aug/05/world/fg-kurdmine5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">land mines</a>, vestiges from the war with Iran. In the western Iraqi province of Anbar, home to the reddish, smaller iteration of desert truffle known as <em>hargi</em>, truffle hunters had to contend with the threat from <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-iraq-qaim-2018-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Islamic State</a>.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>But for many, the danger is worth it, especially if market forces are on their side.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p data-page="2">In dedicated markets stretching from<strong> </strong>Al Salman<strong> </strong> to <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-iraq-baghdad-revival-20190127-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Baghdad</a>, hunters and merchants arrive before daybreak to peer at squat stacks of truffles piled on blankets and brimming in baskets alongside the street.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>They engage in rapid-fire auctions, where quality truffles command prices as low as 8,000 Iraqi dinars per kilogram (roughly $3 a pound) all the way up to more than $10 a pound in Baghdad and nearly $25 when exported.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Depending on the area, a good forager can get anywhere from 2 to 4 kilos in a day, according to Jabaali, who shouts, straining to make himself heard above the constant roar of the wind.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Like many others here, Jabaali traveled with his family from other provinces,<strong> </strong>setting up tents<strong> </strong>for weeks on end in a collective effort to get truffles. He no doubt had in mind the story of one family that managed to sell $11,000 worth of truffles in three months — a princely sum here.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Nearby is a lone tent, pelted off-white by the sand. It houses some nine members of Jabaali’s clan, some of them even now spread out on the plains. A pickup truck awaits the haul for a trek to the market.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>If you’ve found the truffle, and survived the harvest, you still have to clean it.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>There are boundless theories, many contradictory, as to the best manner to clean the crevices of sand. The commonality is that each method is thankless: Nobody compliments you for doing it well, and everyone frowns if sand crunches against their teeth.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>One way is to soak the truffles in ice-cold water to push the sand from the cracks, then use a toothbrush to painstakingly tease out every last bit<em>. </em></p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Press too hard and you’ll bruise the skin and turn the insides to mush. Brush too lightly and your meal may not be ready until next season.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p><strong></strong>Once the rinse water runs clear and the truffles are clean (relatively), you can finally begin to prepare your truffle-focused feast.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Protein-rich <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2006/may/15/world/fg-truffles15" target="_blank" rel="noopener">truffles</a> make a decent substitute for meat. And <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3854548/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">studies</a> have indicated they are high in antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Countless websites, inevitably, expound on truffles’ rejuvenating effect on the male libido. Here, unfortunately, science does not concur, with a number of papers refuting such wishful theories.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>One evening in Baghdad, chef Saleh Ubaidi, a massive man who once played on the Iraqi national basketball team, prepares three truffle dishes at his unassuming barbecue chicken joint.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The first iteration involves frying the truffles with turmeric and crispy onions. He offers a guest a taste as the truffles turn shiny gold and redolent with the spices.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>He then turns to a skewer, alternating pieces of truffle and animal fat. These, Ubaidi says, are destined for the charcoals. “They’ll be just like Turkish delight,” he says of the texture.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The third involves boiling the truffles, then using the yellow-tinted water to boil rice and infuse it with delicate flavor.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The effort — from long drive to wind-scoured hunt, to laborious cleaning — is rewarded with a light meal, with the truffles asserting themselves as more substantive mushrooms, with the chewiness of tofu.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Of course there will be sand in your mouth. But, as most truffle aficionados will tell you, it is worth it.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>You don’t go that far into the desert to complain about sand.</p> </div>
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<h1 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom">Michael Pompeo tries a little diplomacy on Iowa farmers</h1> </div> <div class="card-footer flex-container-row flex-mobile-column align-items-center "> <div class="byline-container flex-container-row align-items-center"> <div class="hidden-mobile spaced spaced-right spaced-sm"> </div> <div class="byline-timestamp-container flex-container-row flex-tablet-column flex-mobile-column align-items-center"> <div class="byline-wrapper"> <span class="byline byline-article">By <a class="uppercase" aria-label="Tracy Wilkinson" href="/la-bio-tracy-wilkinson-staff.html#nt=byline" rel="author"><span class="uppercase">Tracy Wilkinson</span></a> </span> </div> <span class="spaced spaced-right spaced-md hidden-mobile"></span> <div class="timestamp-wrapper flex-container-row align-items-center flex-mobile-column "> <div> <span class="timestamp timestamp-article "> Mar 07, 2019 </span> <span class="timestamp spaced spaced-sm spaced-left spaced-right hidden-tablet">|</span> <span class="timestamp timestamp-article hidden-tablet "> 3:00 AM </span> </div> <div> <span class="timestamp spaced spaced-sm spaced-left spaced-right hidden-mobile">|</span> <span class="timestamp">Washington</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pb-container"> </div> </header><section id="left" class="left guttered width-100"><div class="wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-utilities-lead-art" data-pb-name="Lead Art" data-pb-curated="curated" id="f0MUVW5XrdhThr"> <div class="card card-captioned "> <div class="card-content"> <figure class=""><div class="full-width img-container aspect-ratio-no-aspect"> <img class="full-width" alt="Michael Pompeo tries a little diplomacy on Iowa farmers" src="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/fMklyKEED3-X_H2tnxYRUjH4RjI=/415x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c804349/turbine/la-1551909702-gxvxvwop7v-snap-image" data-src="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/R7gKmdpOIzzTdaGgUijH20uFNsY=/1200x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c804349/turbine/la-1551909702-gxvxvwop7v-snap-image" data-src-small="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/fMklyKEED3-X_H2tnxYRUjH4RjI=/415x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c804349/turbine/la-1551909702-gxvxvwop7v-snap-image" data-src-medium="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/34Y_eVcWHJv7JDCzj-lnw16FYY8=/800x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c804349/turbine/la-1551909702-gxvxvwop7v-snap-image">
</div> <figcaption class="caption-text spaced spaced-top spaced-sm flex-container-row justify-space-between "><div>Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo, top right, visits Future Farmers of America and Johnston High School students Monday in Johnston, Iowa. (Associated Press)</div> </figcaption></figure>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo had barely touched down at Joint Base Andrews from Vietnam after a diplomatic stop in Manila, when he boarded another flight — for Des Moines. Even the several radio and television interviewers he met with there earlier this week were a little surprised he had made the trip.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Pompeo alluded to the unlikely appearance when he opened his remarks to the Iowa branch of the Future Farmers of America.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Pompeo described his visit as partly a mission to inspire people in fly-over country to become future diplomats. What was clearly more important, however, was the more immediate and politically charged part of his mission: talking about trade and reassuring an agricultural sector battered by President Trump’s <a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-us-china-trade-trump-tariffs-20190222-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trade war with China</a> that everything will, eventually, be OK.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“We flew in last night, and believe me, it was a breath of fresh air to be out of Washington, D.C.,” Pompeo told the Iowa Farm Bureau in another appearance Monday. “And I know firsthand too how farmers are the backbone of America, how food security matters so much, and what you all do, the people of Iowa do, to help deliver that every place in the world.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>It is unusual — though not unheard of — for a secretary of State to spend as much time on domestic speaking engagements as Pompeo does, and even more unusual for the subjects to be domestic ones, in his case trade and farming. Those are matters normally handled by the Cabinet secretaries for Commerce and Agriculture, or the president’s trade representative.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Madeleine Albright, who was secretary of State in President Clinton’s second term, also did speaking tours in the U.S. She was primarily promoting internationalism, however, drumming up support at home for foreign policy and for cooperation among nations globally.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Pompeo, in contrast, has demonstrated he is looking inward while his portfolio is one that looks outward. Formerly a Republican congressman from Kansas, he is likely eyeing a return to politics, maybe even a presidential bid in 2024. He recently was urged by senior Republicans to run for the Senate from his home state, and considered it, but declined.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>For now, then, Pompeo is among the most loyal members of Trump’s Cabinet, eager to do the president’s bidding whether in Kansas or Kuwait.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Later this month, he will deliver the keynote address for the State Department’s Road to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit Heartland Event in Overland Park, Kan. He has given several dozen interviews to local-level radio and television stations all over the country, sometimes by teleconference, and especially in the Midwest — while shutting out most Washington-based diplomatic correspondents.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“President Trump has been determined to get Iowa farmers a fair shake,” Pompeo told broadcast host Doug Wagner on Cedar Rapids’ <a href="https://600wmtradio.iheart.com/featured/wmt-morning-show/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WMT Radio</a>, in a show that airs between 5 and 9 a.m. — the popular drive time.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Describing China as a duplicitous trading partner, Pompeo said, “This effort to get a full, comprehensive trade deal, is to fix that, to make it fair, to fix this historic wrong, and I am very hopeful in the coming weeks we’ll get that positive outcome.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Over at <a href="https://whoradio.iheart.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WHO Radio</a> in Des Moines, the hosts of the “Van and Bonnie in the Morning” show also welcomed Pompeo.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“Well, Bonnie, I always said it’d be a cold day when the United States secretary of State would call us and want to be on ‘Van and Bonnie in the Morning,’” co-host Van Harden said.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“You got it,” Harden said. “It’s minus 1.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Pompeo gave them a similar pitch about Trump’s trade policies ultimately helping out Iowan and Kansan farmers, if they’ll just be patient.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“I do want to talk about agriculture, making sure that Iowa farmers and, frankly, Kansas farmers, too, have a chance to compete on a fair, level playing field,” he said.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Farmers in states that supported Trump in 2016, including Iowa, have been hit hard by the retaliatory tariffs that U.S. trading partners have imposed in reaction to the president’s tariffs on their exports. Trump’s trade war with China — previously soybean farmers’ main customer — has especially hurt U.S. agriculture, driving down sales and market prices. For the industry in the Midwest and Great Plains states, it’s the worst crisis since the 1980s — a worrisome fact for the administration.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Trump last year imposed levies on the importation of scores of Chinese products, such as TVs, chemicals, steel and solar panels. China retaliated by imposing tariffs on imports of U.S. agricultural commodities including soybeans, grain sorghum and pork. Soybean exports to China have plummeted by more than 90%.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Trump appointed Pompeo, formerly his CIA director, as secretary of State almost a year ago <a href="https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-tillerson-ousted-20180313-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to replace Rex Tillerson</a>, former chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp., who frequently clashed with the president. Originally from California, Pompeo spent many years in Kansas and, while his business involved aircraft manufacturing, he makes frequent reference to time on a family farm.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Trump clearly relies on Pompeo, one of the few experienced politicians in his orbit, to perform many tasks. As the president has begun his campaigning for reelection, the secretary of State’s jobs apparently include allaying the concerns of Trump’s core supporters in rural America.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“We deliver consistent, stable, affordable, high-yield, high-quality food products all around the world,” Pompeo told the Iowa Farm Bureau, adding that foreign competitors spread myths and lies about U.S. products to protect their own farmers.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item card-border-bottom card-border-bottom-thick card-border-bottom-dark"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“The State Department has an obligation to fix that, too, and that goes for every place in the world.”</p> </div>
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<h1 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom">He was deported for a crime he committed at 19. Now a 30-year-old Cambodian refugee is back home in California</h1> </div> <div class="card-footer flex-container-row flex-mobile-column align-items-center "> <div class="byline-container flex-container-row align-items-center"> <div class="hidden-mobile spaced spaced-right spaced-sm"> </div> <div class="byline-timestamp-container flex-container-row flex-tablet-column flex-mobile-column align-items-center"> <div class="byline-wrapper"> <span class="byline byline-article">By <span class="uppercase">Charles Dunst</span> </span> </div> <span class="spaced spaced-right spaced-md hidden-mobile"></span> <div class="timestamp-wrapper flex-container-row align-items-center flex-mobile-column "> <div> <span class="timestamp timestamp-article "> Mar 06, 2019 </span> <span class="timestamp spaced spaced-sm spaced-left spaced-right hidden-tablet">|</span> <span class="timestamp timestamp-article hidden-tablet "> 12:25 PM </span> </div> <div> <span class="timestamp spaced spaced-sm spaced-left spaced-right hidden-mobile">|</span> <span class="timestamp">Phnom Penh, Cambodia</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pb-container"> </div> </header><section id="left" class="left guttered width-100"><div class="wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-utilities-lead-art" data-pb-name="Lead Art" data-pb-curated="curated" id="f0MUVW5XrdhThr"> <div class="card card-captioned "> <div class="card-content"> <figure class=""><div class="full-width img-container aspect-ratio-no-aspect"> <img class="full-width" alt="He was deported for a crime he committed at 19. Now a 30-year-old Cambodian refugee is back home in California" src="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/K-MPkGGmjTkcsdeGtRAie04qz9Q=/415x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c7e1385/turbine/la-1551766398-4pk1lyt7w5-snap-image" data-src="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/0RIzs9Nf1xzd-PBcb0dvVBxtuyo=/1200x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c7e1385/turbine/la-1551766398-4pk1lyt7w5-snap-image" data-src-small="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/K-MPkGGmjTkcsdeGtRAie04qz9Q=/415x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c7e1385/turbine/la-1551766398-4pk1lyt7w5-snap-image" data-src-medium="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/PWMcMyQWFxbZd7gLVdHmQOOIUWY=/800x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c7e1385/turbine/la-1551766398-4pk1lyt7w5-snap-image">
</div> <figcaption class="caption-text spaced spaced-top spaced-sm flex-container-row justify-space-between "><div>Veasna Meth, outside a Phnom Penh bar, is one of the first Cambodian deportees to be allowed to return home to the U.S. after a key Supreme Court ruling. (Charles Dunst / For The Times)</div> </figcaption></figure>
</div> </div> </div> <div class="wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-body" data-pb-name="Article Body (Elements)" data-pb-curated="curated" id="f0aYpgiXrdhThr"> <div class=""> </div> <div class="collection collection-cards"> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p data-page="1">The hip-hop hit “A Lot,” by the rapper 21 Savage, boomed through the speakers at Phnom Penh’s Cool Lounge, the rapid-fire verses spilling from the bar onto the Cambodian capital’s hectic streets.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“Been through some things, but I couldn’t imagine my kids stuck at the border,” rapped the British-born artist who was recently detained in the U.S. on suspicion of overstaying his 2006 visa.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The lyrics and the Atlanta-based rapper’s story, perhaps foreign to most Cambodians, resonated with the bar’s clientele, which included some of the more than 700 Cambodians deported from the United States over criminal convictions since a 2002 repatriation agreement.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>During his second term, President Obama prioritized <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-immigration-criminals-20161114-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removing migrants with criminal convictions</a>. The <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-immigration-enforcement-20170221-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump administration</a> has since ramped up deportations, including of <a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-asian-deportations-20180125-htmlstory.html">Cambodians</a> and Southeast Asians, expanding the list of targets and the acts for which they can be removed, some for cases more than a decade old.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Veasna Meth, 30, spent the last five years apart from family members in Sacramento, including wife Sandy Ho and their children — son Jorden, 12, and 1-year-old Lily.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Now Meth is one of the first Cambodians to be allowed to return after the 2018 Supreme Court decision in Sessions vs. Dimaya, which struck down part of a broad federal immigration <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-supreme-court-immigration-20180417-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">law that mandated the removal of noncitizens</a>, including longtime green-card holders, who were convicted of a “crime of violence.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The court determined that the statute’s language was vague, voiding the deportation order of a Philippine man who had twice pleaded guilty to breaking into an unoccupied California house.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>As a 19-year-old, Meth and his friends broke into an empty house. In 2008, he pleaded guilty to residential burglary, then served one year in prison. A court initially ruled that it was not a “crime of violence” and therefore not an aggravated felony under the federal law, which would have required the cancellation of his green card.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>But in 2013, the Department of Homeland Security appealed the decision and won, raising Meth’s conviction to an aggravated felony that invalidated his green card.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Meth said that, months later, immigration authorities came to his mother’s house, asking where he was. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent eventually called him, posing as a parole officer.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“They said they wanted me to sign some paper. And I was like, ‘OK, I’m at work, you wanna meet me here?’ ” he recalled. “Twenty minutes later, three cars showed up.”</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Authorities picked him up from his job as a fabricator, where he made signs and boxes out of acrylic, and in January 2014 deported him.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>His story is <a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-cambodian-deportees-20171103-story.html">typical of Cambodian deportees</a>, the overwhelming majority of whom arrived in the U.S. as children, their parents having fled the country in the 1970s when the Khmer Rouge began its genocidal campaign that killed nearly 2 million people.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Some deportees were born in refugee camps in Thailand or, like Meth, the Philippines; most had lived in the U.S. for decades and obtained green cards. Many, like Meth, had never been to Cambodia before they were deported and had few if any relatives still living there.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Meth emigrated to the U.S. as a 5-month-old and grew up in California, in low-income communities in Long Beach, Modesto and Stockton, often surrounded by gang violence.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>He said he and his parents didn’t understand the importance of pursuing U.S. citizenship, believing his permanent residency to be genuinely permanent.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>After arriving in Cambodia, Meth for the first time met his aunt, the only member of his family remaining in the country. And although he speaks Khmer, he can’t read or write in Cambodia's language.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Native Cambodians, he said, view deportees as suspicious foreigners. “They don’t like us with tattoos,” he said in a California accent as West Coast rap played over the speakers at the Cool Lounge. “They say that we're the bad guys.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Learning to live in Cambodia “was a culture shock,” he said. “And then depression, because my son was still young and my wife was there by herself.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Ho, an accountant who visited him in Cambodia nearly every year, had to support their family on her own.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“I’m just in disbelief how the system worked and my husband was wrongfully deported,” Ho said. “Like literally, at that point, what do I do?”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Meth was living alone, without a Cambodian identification card required for him to work legally. His situation became even more complicated when he suffered a serious motorcycle crash that left him paralyzed for months — a common occurrence in Cambodia, where road accidents are the <a href="https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/road-crashes-leading-cause-death)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leading cause of death</a>.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Friends and family raised money for his surgery, but the dearth of quality medical providers in Cambodia stunted his recovery, leaving him with a pronounced limp and unable to lift heavy objects.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Other deportees have been less fortunate: Sophorn San of Providence, R.I., who arrived in Cambodia in December, died in a gruesome motorcycle crash last month.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>While recovering from his crash, Meth contacted the legal aid organization Asian Americans Advancing Justice — Asian Law Caucus. In May, one month after the Supreme Court decision, lawyers filed a motion to reconsider Meth's deportation.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="quote" class="card card-pull-center collection-item"> <div class=" card-content pullquote spaced spaced-top spaced-right spaced-left spaced-md "> <p class="quote-text spaced spaced-bottom spaced-md">We all dream of bringing deportees home. Veasna is hopefully just the beginning.</p> <div class="byline emdashed quote-author uppercase spaced spaced-bottom spaced-lg align-right"> Kevin Lo, one of Veasna Meth’s lawyers </div> <hr class="spaced spaced-bottom spaced-xs">
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The high court’s 5-4 ruling was the result of an unlikely alliance between its liberal justices and Neil M. Gorsuch, President Trump’s first appointee to the court. In a partially concurring opinion, Gorsuch wrote that the statute’s vagueness left “judges to their intuitions and the people to their fate.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Immigration advocates hailed the ruling, saying it would spare thousands of legal residents from deportation. But the Trump administration has pushed back against individual cases.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p data-page="2">Department of Homeland Security lawyers opposed Meth’s repatriation, according to court documents reviewed by The Times. Contacted for this article, a representative referred to an earlier statement by the department that the Supreme Court ruling “allows our nation to be a safe haven for criminals and makes us more vulnerable as a result.”</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>But in November, an immigration judge sided with Meth, declaring his removal order “erroneous” and restoring his green card.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Advocates hope the Dimaya ruling will open doors for the return of other noncitizens.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“We all dream of bringing deportees home,” said Kevin Lo, one of Meth’s lawyers. “Veasna is hopefully just the beginning.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>But others warn that immigration judges retain vast discretion and can refuse for any reason to reopen cases, even those involving the “crime of violence” convictions addressed by the court. Individual cases such as Meth’s do not set a precedent, they say.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Bill Herod, the American founder of the Khmer Vulnerability Aid Organization, a Phnom Penh-based assistance group for deportees, urged Cambodians removed from the U.S. not to get their hopes up.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“Those considering legal action permitting their return to the U.S. will have our cooperation,” he said in a statement. “But as the process may be lengthy and uncertain, we hope this will not interfere with the hard work they are now doing in building new lives of freedom and responsibility in Cambodia.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="image" class="card card-pull-center card-captioned collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <figure class=""><div class="full-width img-container "> <img class="b-lazy full-width" alt="Veasna Meth holds the hand of his wife, Sandy Ho, upon his arrival at San Francisco Airport late last month. They are flanked by his lawyers Melanie Kim and Kevin Lo." data-src="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/1GG29copVxsoWzyxhEbfubtS3II=/1400x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c801978/turbine/la-1551898994-fapzx0hxhh-snap-image" data-src-small="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/uqNbni_Z2HPpC6yUUtQlN5CAMqQ=/415x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c801978/turbine/la-1551898994-fapzx0hxhh-snap-image" data-src-medium="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/iCmk5sRjm0ZmKbdGBjg1tc5xM9Y=/800x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c801978/turbine/la-1551898994-fapzx0hxhh-snap-image" src="/pb/resources/images/tinygif.gif">
</div> <figcaption class="caption-text spaced spaced-top spaced-sm flex-container-row justify-space-between "><div>Veasna Meth holds the hand of his wife, Sandy Ho, upon his arrival at San Francisco Airport late last month. They are flanked by his lawyers Melanie Kim and Kevin Lo. (Kevin Lo)</div> </figcaption></figure>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Meth never thought he would get back to the U.S. and seemed in disbelief even days before his flight.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“Coming here, it’s always in the back of my mind that I want to go home,” he said. “While you keep going with your life, you try something.… If it work out, it work out. It doesn’t matter how long it take.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Meth sat at the Cool Lounge with a group of friends munching on takeout Mexican food, a cuisine that reminded them of California. The bar draws a large clientele of deportees — its owner was also sent back from the U.S. — and Meth was struggling to shake a kind of survivor’s guilt.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“You’re here for a certain time and then you bond, you become brothers because that’s all you got,” he said. “I’m blessed, man. It’s hard to explain the feeling because, at the end of the day, I got friends here with kids and no chance of going home.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p><strong></strong>On Feb. 27, Meth departed Phnom Penh for San Francisco, carrying physical and emotional scars from Cambodia: He wore a shirt depicting San, the deportee killed in the recent crash, flanked by graffitied angel wings.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“I’m excited to see my kids and to be back on American soil,” Meth said in a text message after landing. “I don’t quite know how to express it, but I just want to go outside and kiss the ground or something.”</p> </div>
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<h1 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom">For one father, the battle to destroy Islamic State could end up killing his own children</h1> </div> <div class="card-footer flex-container-row flex-mobile-column align-items-center "> <div class="byline-container flex-container-row align-items-center"> <div class="hidden-mobile spaced spaced-right spaced-sm"> </div> <div class="byline-timestamp-container flex-container-row flex-tablet-column flex-mobile-column align-items-center"> <div class="byline-wrapper"> <span class="byline byline-article">By <span class="uppercase">Nabih Bulos</span> </span> </div> <span class="spaced spaced-right spaced-md hidden-mobile"></span> <div class="timestamp-wrapper flex-container-row align-items-center flex-mobile-column "> <div> <span class="timestamp timestamp-article "> Mar 05, 2019 </span> <span class="timestamp spaced spaced-sm spaced-left spaced-right hidden-tablet">|</span> <span class="timestamp timestamp-article hidden-tablet "> 7:05 PM </span> </div> <div> <span class="timestamp spaced spaced-sm spaced-left spaced-right hidden-mobile">|</span> <span class="timestamp">Irbil, Iraq</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pb-container"> </div> </header><section id="left" class="left guttered width-100"><div class="wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-utilities-lead-art" data-pb-name="Lead Art" data-pb-curated="curated" id="f0MUVW5XrdhThr"> <div class="card card-captioned "> <div class="card-content"> <figure class=""><div class="full-width img-container aspect-ratio-no-aspect"> <img class="full-width" alt="For one father, the battle to destroy Islamic State could end up killing his own children" src="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/CNFcfNmfKjyWLmW7NaU4c9b2zAw=/415x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c7f22fc/turbine/la-1551835896-91om3o1o3m-snap-image" data-src="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/liImSMdiAxBDkNLD1oYNuakF78c=/1200x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c7f22fc/turbine/la-1551835896-91om3o1o3m-snap-image" data-src-small="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/CNFcfNmfKjyWLmW7NaU4c9b2zAw=/415x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c7f22fc/turbine/la-1551835896-91om3o1o3m-snap-image" data-src-medium="https://www.latimes.com/resizer/C7fP-2hUrEuY7vEfdqCF5vji11g=/800x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c7f22fc/turbine/la-1551835896-91om3o1o3m-snap-image">
</div> <figcaption class="caption-text spaced spaced-top spaced-sm flex-container-row justify-space-between "><div>A woman carries her injured child as she walks to members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces from the Islamic State group's last holdout of Baghouz, in eastern Syria, on March 4, 2019. (Bulent Kilic / AFP/Getty Images)</div> </figcaption></figure>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>He had traveled thousands of miles from his home near Miami and spent a frustrating week in Irbil trying to score meetings with diplomats, military commanders, militiamen, activists, aid workers, journalists or anyone else who might be able to help him.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Room 202 of the Classy Hotel was the closest Shikder, 38, had gotten to his two children since March 2015, when his wife took them, left Florida and traveled to Syria to join Islamic State.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>At the time, the extremist group controlled a sprawling territory encompassing a third of both Syria and Iraq. The self-declared caliphate has since been reduced to a few houses and tents in Baghouz, a dust-swept Syrian village 200 miles southwest of Irbil.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>And somewhere out there were 8-year-old Yusuf and his 4-year-old sister, Zahra.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Life in Florida seemed blessed.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Shikder worked in information technology. His wife, Rashida Abdul Hamid, was a stay-at-home mother. They would go to a spot near the fishing bridge in North Miami Beach from where they could watch the waves, and became regulars at their favorite Arabic restaurant.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Both were U.S. citizens from Bangladesh — her family had moved to Orlando when she was a year old, and he arrived in 2007 after studying in Canada — and both were devout Muslims.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>On March 15, 2015, Shikder boarded a plane for what he thought would be “a trip of a lifetime.” He was flying to Saudi Arabia to do <em>umrah</em>, an abbreviated version of the pilgrimage to Mecca required of all Muslims.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Once he arrived, Shikder sent his wife photographs and videos, along with messages asking her about what gifts to bring back for the family. But there was no response.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>After nine worry-filled days, he called her parents, who broke the news about his wife and children.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>They had left on a flight to Istanbul, Turkey, three hours after him. His wife’s sister Aisha had gone with them. From Turkey, they made their way to the city of <a href="http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-syria-raqqah-2017-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Raqqa</a>h, then the de facto capital of Islamic State in Syria.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Shikder immediately contacted the FBI, then raced back to Miami.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“It was like the whole sky fell down on me,” he said. “Until Rashida did this, she was my everything. I shared everything with her.”</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>There was no word of his family until almost a month later, when a strange number appeared on his cellphone. A man with a British accent came on the line, asked for him, and told him his wife and children were now in “Dawlat al Islam” — Islamic State.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The man berated Shikder for not joining them there and threatened that if he didn’t do so in a month his marriage would be annulled and children taken away.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Shikder stalled for time. He said he wanted to come but that he had to take care of his sick mother at home.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>About a week later, his wife contacted him on the messaging app Viber.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“We were both crying,” Shikder recalled. “I said ‘Rashida, what did I do to you in this life for you to do this to me?’”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>She apologized that everything had happened so fast, he said.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Her attraction to Islamic State was something he would never understand. He begged her to return, but she said her passport had been taken away.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>They continued to communicate over the months that followed, but Shikder never felt he could speak freely. He knew Islamic State members were nearby.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“It was very, very difficult,” he said. “Sometimes when we were talking I wanted to be angry, as a husband and as a father to my lovely children…. I wanted to tell her to come back, but I couldn’t say it.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>But after nearly a year and a half, the militants were no longer convinced of his sincerity.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>In June 2016, his wife filed Case No. 13020 in Raqqah’s sharia court using her nom de guerre, Umm Yusuf al Amreekiyah, which means “Mother of Yusuf the American woman.”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>She wanted her marriage annulled because her husband “lives in the land of infidels, and does not want to emigrate,” according to a court document later obtained by Shikder.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>The judge granted the annulment on June 10, 2016.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Abdul Hamid quickly remarried and in 2017 gave birth to a daughter, Safya.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>By then, Islamic State was steadily losing territory. Eventually Abdul Hamid and her three children wound up retreating with the militants to eastern Syria.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>At least that is what Shikder’s sister-in-law Aisha told him in online messages.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Then early this year, she sent another message: The mother of his children was dead, killed in a shelling or airstrike that had disfigured Yusuf and Zahra.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Over the last few weeks, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-syria-islamic-state-20190219-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thousands of families had streamed out of Baghouz to flee the violence</a>. They have emerged wraith-like from the desert, gaunt and covered in dust. They travel to Kurdish internment camps hundreds of miles away.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Many children don’t make it. Since December, according to the United Nations, more than 50 younger than 5 have died en route or shortly after reaching Hol — a camp that shelters more than 50,000 people — and hundreds more have been hospitalized for severe malnutrition and diarrhea.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Shikder spoke to the U.S. consul in Irbil and reached out to the office of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio asking to cross into Syria to look for his children.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“They said it’s not safe, but I said that [Islamic State] is already defeated,” he said. “What does it mean that I can’t search for my own children?”</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Last week, Shikder thought his nightmare had finally ended; an aid group told him Yusuf and Zahra had been found. He ran out to shopping centers in Irbil to buy them warm clothes.</p> </div>
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</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>He sent messages pleading for the release of all remaining children. But he never heard back.</p> </div>
</div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>“I’m just watching TV and seeing all these people, all these children, and they’re coming out with their father and mother,” he said. “My children have no one.”</p> </div>
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