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VOL. CLXVIII . . . No. 58,370© 2019 The New York Times Company$3.00

NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2019

Border Aid Bill Passes,
As Democrats Deliver
Check on Trump Policy
Children Returned to A Measure Restricts
How $4.5 Billion
Texas Shelter That
Can Be SpentSet Off an Outcry

JULIA LE DUC/ASSOCIATED PRESSHORROR AND HEARTBREAK The deaths of two migrants who were trying to cross the Rio Grande led to widespread anguish on Tuesday.

The bodies of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his 23-month-old daughter, Valeria, were found near Brownsville, Tex. Page A23.

Biden Reckons Mine Plan Was Stalled Until Trump Stepped Ininterior secretary was appointed
With a History
the new administration, the dePolicy Reversals Benefit topartment moved to re-examine
Of Filling Jails ELY, Minn. — In the waning a Copper Project in leases critical to the mine, eventuBy HIROKO TABUCHIand STEVE EDER

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
and ASTEAD W. HERNDONWASHINGTON — In September 1994, as President Bill Clinton
signed the new Violent Crime
Control and Law Enforcement Act
in an elaborately choreographedceremony on the south lawn of theWhite House, Joseph R. Biden Jr.
sat directly behind the president’slectern, flashing his trademark
grin.
For Mr. Clinton, the law was an
immediate follow-through on his
campaign promise to focus morefederal attention on crime prevention. But for Mr. Biden, the moment was the culmination of hisdecades-long effort to moreclosely marry the Democratic
Party and law enforcement, and totransform the country’s criminal
justice system in the process. Hehad won.
“The truth is,” Mr. Biden had
boasted a year earlier in a speechon the Senate floor, “every major
crime bill since 1976 that’s comeout of this Congress, every minor
crime bill, has had the name of theDemocratic senator from theState of Delaware: Joe Biden.”Now, more than 25 years later,
as Mr. Biden makes his third run
for the White House in a crowded
field of Democrats — many callingfor ambitious criminal justice reform — he must answer for hisrole in legislation that criminal
justice experts and his critics sayhelped lay the groundwork for themass incarceration that has devContinued on Page A18

months of the Obama administration, a Chilean conglomerate waslosing a fight with the UnitedStates government over a coppermine that it wanted to build near apristine wilderness area in Minnesota.
The election of President
Trump, with his business-friendly
bent, turned out to be a gamechanger for the project.
Beginning in the early weeks ofMr. Trump’s presidency, the administration worked at a high level to remove roadblocks to the proposed mine, government emails

the Wilderness
and calendars show, overrulingconcerns that it could harm theBoundary Waters, a vast landscape of federally protected lakes
and forests along the border withCanada.
Executives with the miningcompany, Antofagasta, discussed
the project with senior administration officials, including theWhite House’s top energy adviser,
the emails show. Even before anally restoring those that theObama administration had declined to renew. And the Forest
Service called off an environmental review that could have restricted mining, even though theagriculture secretary had told
Congress that the review wouldproceed.
AnInterior
Department
spokesman said it simply worked
to rectify “a flawed decisionrushed out the door” before Mr.
Trump took office. Several seniordepartment officials with previContinued on Page A21

By ARTURO RUBIO
and CAITLIN DICKERSON

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
and EMILY COCHRANE

CLINT, Tex. — At the squat,sand-colored concrete border station in Texas that has become thecenter of debate over President
Trump’s immigration policies, achaotic shuffle of migrant children
continued on Tuesday as morethan 100 were moved back into afacility that days earlier had been
emptied in the midst of criticism
that young detainees there werehungry, crying and unwashed.
The transfer came just days after 249 children originally housed
at the station in Clint, Tex., hadbeen moved to other facilities torelieve overcrowding. The continuing movement of children andconfusion over housing of the Border Patrol’s youngest detainees
pointed to an increasingly disorganized situation along the southern border and an agency struggling to maintain minimal humanitarian standards amid an unprecedented influx of migrantfamilies.
“We’ve dipped far below thestandard of care into the realms ofjust utter darkness,” said State
Representative Terry Canales ofTexas, a Democrat who contacted
Border Patrol officials to ask what
he and his staff could do to help.
“We’re in a dark place as a nation,and it just breaks my heart.”
In Clint, a farm town about 20
miles southeast of El Paso withfewer than 1,000 residents, there
was consternation and dismay
among residents at reports fromlawyers who visited the border
station recently, who said theyfound that children as young as 5months old had been housed withfilthy clothes, dirty diapers and inadequate food.
“Almost like a concentration
camp,” said Juan Martinez, whoworks at the Pride Fitness gym in
Clint and heard about what washappening at the nearby stationfrom news reports. “I mean,
they’re not killing them, butthey’re treating them like animals. They need basic hygiene.”
From across the country, donations of diapers and other supplies
began flowing in — thoughCustoms and Border Protection
agents said they could not accept
outside supplies and initially refused the growing stockpile. Morethan a dozen people drove into
South Texas from as far away as
the West Coast to deliver aid andlaunch protests.
Continued on Page A23

WASHINGTON — A divided
House voted Tuesday to send $4.5
billion in humanitarian aid to theborder to address horrific conditions facing a crush of migrants,
attaching significant rules on how
the money could be spent in thefirst action by Democrats to reinin President Trump’s immigration
crackdown.
But the package — which
passed by a vote of 230 to 195
nearly along party lines, only after
Democratic leaders toughened restrictions on the money to win
over liberal skeptics — faces atough path to enactment. A similar measure with many fewer
strings binding Mr. Trump has
drawn bipartisan support in theSenate. And the House bill faces aveto threat from White House advisers, who regard the Senate billas the surest way to speed theneeded aid to strapped agenciesdealing with the migrant influx.
Hours before the House billpassed, Mr. Trump said that he did

T.J. KIRKPATRICK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

HARD-LINER PICKED Mark Mor-gan will lead Customs andBorder Protection. Page A22.
not like some of the restrictions
that lawmakers were seeking toplace on the humanitarian funding, but that he badly needed theresources.
“There are some provisions, I
think, that actually are bad forchildren,” Mr. Trump said in an interview for a coming book about
his immigration policies. “Thereare a couple of points that I wouldlike to get out of it, but I also haveto get the money to be able to takecare of children and families.”
While the House debated, theadministration again overhauled
the leadership responsible for border policies, naming an immigration hard-liner and former Fox
News contributor as acting commissioner of Customs and Border
Continued on Page A22

Mueller to Testify to Congress,
Setting Up a Political Spectacle
TIM GRUBER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMESOne of the largest untapped copper deposits lies in and around Minnesota’s Boundary Waters.
By NICHOLAS FANDOSU.S. Companies Sell Tech to Huawei Despite Ban
By PAUL MOZUR
and CECILIA KANG

Special Section
The first Democratic debate isWednesday. How do the candidates differ? The Times got answers from almost all of them.

SHANGHAI — United Stateschip makers are still selling millions of dollars of products toHuawei despite a Trump administration ban on the sale of American technology to the Chinese
telecommunications giant, according to four people with knowledge of the sales.
Industry leaders including Inteland Micron have found ways toavoid labeling goods as Americanmade, said the people, who spoke

Deals Expose Difficultyof Enforcing a Policyon the condition they not be
named because they were not authorized to disclose the sales.
Goods produced by Americancompanies overseas are not always considered American-made.
The components began to flow toHuawei about three weeks ago,the people said.
The sales will help Huawei con-tinue to sell products such as
smartphones and servers, and underscore how difficult it is for the
Trump administration to clamp
down on companies that it considers a national security threat, likeHuawei. They also hint at the possible unintended consequencesfrom altering the web of trade relationships that ties together theworld’s electronics industry andglobal commerce.
The Commerce Department’s
move to block sales to Huawei, by
putting it on a so-called entity list,
set off confusion within the ChiContinued on Page A10

WASHINGTON — Robert S.
Mueller III, the former special
counsel, has agreed to testify inpublic before Congress next
month about his investigation into
Russia’s election interference andpossible obstruction of justice byPresident Trump, House Democrats announced on Tuesdaynight.
Coming nearly three months after the release of Mr. Mueller’s report, two back-to-back hearings
on July 17 before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees promise to be among themost closely watched spectaclesof Mr. Trump’s presidency, withthe power to potentially reshape
the political landscape around his
re-election campaign and a possible impeachment inquiry by theNEW YORK A27-29

INTERNATIONAL 4-11

NATIONAL A12-26

BUSINESS B1-9

Friendly Villages Torn Apart

A New Press Secretary

Scrutiny for Nissan’s C.E.O.

Another Toll Increase Looms

A rape case involving a 7-year-old girland a video of Arabs and Jews at awedding have driven a wedge between
two West Bank communities. PAGE A8Stephanie Grisham, Melania Trump’s
communications director, will replace
Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
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Months after Carlos Ghosn was arrested, Nissan’s chief executive, Hiroto
Saikawa, is facing questions about hisown competence and probity. PAGE B1

The Port Authority of New York andNew Jersey wants to raise tolls onbridges and tunnels and add a $4 fee toairport carfares.
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Doubts About Cryptocurrency

ARTS C1-8

Gambia Confronts Its Past
A former president has been accused ofrape, and others are coming forward todescribe crimes and abuse.
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SPORTSWEDNESDAY B10-14

A Soccer Origin Story
A 1971 game is recognized as the first
women’s international match, and thepioneers remember it well.
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Battle for a Nevada Preserve
The Air Force wants to expand a training zone, closing parts of a wildlife refuge with ancient petroglyphs. PAGE A12

Facebook said it had signed 27 partners
to its Libra project. But executives atsome of those companies said theywere approaching it warily.
PAGE B1

Fed Chief Focuses on Risks
Jerome H. Powell underlined the Federal Reserve’s insulation from politics
and kept the door open for interest-rate
cuts at a time of uncertainty.
PAGE B3

Democrat-controlled House.
Mr. Mueller, a strait-laced former F.B.I. director who has spoken publicly only once about hiswork as special counsel, had resisted taking the witness stand.
He knows he is certain to facequestions from both sides of apitched political fight. Many Democrats are eager to employ him tobuild a case against Mr. Trump,and Republicans are just as eager
to vindicate the president. His
448-page written report, Mr.
Mueller asserted, should speak
for itself.
In the end, though, the two committees issued subpoenas compelling Mr. Mueller to speak, and heaccepted.
The chairmen of the panels,
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FOOD D1-8

Seeing Themselves on TV

10 Nigerian Recipes

Watching a few episodes of the new
HBO show “Euphoria,” two young
recovering addicts recognized somevery familiar behaviors.
PAGE C1

Yewande Komolafe, who grew up in
Lagos, shares some recipes. Above,braised goat leg and rice.
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EDITORIAL, OP-ED A30-31

Eli Broad

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