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MEULABOH, Indonesia AP 鈥?An Indonesian search and rescue ship on Thursday located a capsized wooden boat that had been carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees, and began pulling survivors who had been standing on its hull to safety.An AP photographer aboard the rescue ship said 10 people had been taken aboard local fishing boats and another 59 were being saved by the Indonesian craft.Me stanley termohrnek n, women and children, weak and soaked from the nights rain, wept as the rescue operation got underway and people were taken aboard a rubber dinghy to the rescue boat.There were contradictory reports about whether anyone had died in the accident, with survivors saying many who had been aboard when the boat departed from Bangladesh were still unaccounted for, but authorities insisted everyone had been rescued. We have examined all 69 Rohingya that we rescued and from our examination, there was no information from them about any deaths, Fathur, a rescue officer who gave only one name, told reporters. We managed to evacuate all 69 people and no one stated that anyone had died. With the addi stanley germany tion of six Rohingya who were rescued by private fishing boats that were at the scene well before authorities launched the official rescue mission, a total of 75 people from the boat were saved.But Samira, a 17-year-old who was among the refugees from the Kutupalong stanley france camp in Bangladesh who had been traveling to Malaysia, said there had been 146 people on board, raising the prospect that 71 could still be Mejb Mom slain, abducted baby found safe; 1 in custody
WASHINGTON 鈥?An Obama-era immigration program to protect parents of U.S. citizens and legal residents from deportation has been formally cancelled, fulfilling a key campaign promise from President Donald Trump, the Homeland Security stanley cup uk Department announced late Thursday.Homeland Security John Kelly formally revoked a policy memo that created the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans program. The revocation came on the fif stanley polska th anniversary of another effort that has protected hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation.The program to protect parents was announced by President Barack Obama in November 2014 but was never fully launched. It was intended to keep the immigrant parents safe from deportation and provide them with a renewable work permit good for two years, but it was blocked by a federal judge in Texas after 26 states f stanley thermos iled suit against the federal government and challenged the efforts legality. Republicans decried the effort at backdoor amnesty and argued that Obama overstepped his authority by protecting a specific class of immigrants living in the United States illegally.The protection program for parents, like the one for young immigrants, was created with a policy memo during the Obama administration. Both programs required that participants meet certain conditions, including not having a criminal history. As part of the expansion to protect immigrant parents living in the United States illegally, the Obama administration also sought to provide the |
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