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SATURDAY JULY 26, 2014 FREE DELIVERED EVERY SATURDAY A HEARST PUBLICATION ON THE WEB: THEZAPATATIMES.COM TO 4,000 HOMES JOHNSON TURNS OUT FOR CAMP TEXANS WIDE RECEIVER NOT HOLDING OUT 1B Federal officials by 2012 found the number of adults and famlies illegally entering the United States from El Salvador, Guatema- la and Honduras began to grow rapidly. The number of Central Ameri- can minors making the trip with- out their parents — who are af- forded greater protections under a 2008 U.S. anti-trafficking law — was a subset of the larger phe- nomenon, officials said. “It was more than it had been, but it wasn’t something that would cause you to sort of drop everything and say we’re in a cri- sis,” said a person familiar with internal deliberations. In Texas and in Central Amer- ica, officials viewed the situation with greater alarm. In April 2012, the first ladies of Mexico, Hondu- ras and Guatemala voiced their concerns at a conference in Wash- ington on unaccompanied minors. “The statistics are worrisome,” said Guatemala’s Rosa Maria Leal de Perez. Aweek later, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, wrote a blis- tering letter to Obama, citing a 90 percent increase over the previous year in the number unaccompa- nied minors arriving from Central America. If the president failed “to take immediate action to re- turn these minors to their coun- tries of origin and prevent and dis- courage others from coming here, the federal government is perpetu- ating the problem,” Perry wrote. “Every day of delay risks more lives. Every child allowed to re- main encourages hundreds more to attempt the journey.” Inside the Obama administra- tion, officials at the Department of Homeland Security were focusing most of their efforts on adults. Ja- net Napolitano, then secretary of homeland security, implored her counterparts in Mexico to in- crease border security to reduce MIGRANT CHILDREN Turning point for Central Am. minors was ’12 Editor’s note: This is part two of a three-part series on warnings of an influx of immigrant children in- to the United States. By DAVID NAKAMURA, JERRY MARKON AND MANUEL ROIG-FRANZIA THE WASHINGTON POST See CHILDREN PAGE 9A AUSTIN — Young adults who grew up in Texas’ foster care system recounted harrowing stories of abuse and emotion- al trauma Thursday for members of a legislative committee looking for ways to better protect such children. Some choked back tears during a hearing of the Texas House Select Com- mittee on Child Protection, and chairwo- man Dawnna Dukes said what she heard made foster care sometimes sound “like prison.” The state’s 17,000-child foster system has been under intense scrutiny since seven children died of abuse or neglect in fiscal year 2013. Another three died “in kinship care,” after being assigned to live with relatives. This year, one foster child has died, but officials are still investigating two siblings in foster care, ages 4 and 6, who drowned July 6 in Lake Georgetown, near Austin. An outside review found child protective caseworkers only spend 26 percent of their job meeting with youngsters and families. Lena Francis, now 20, testified that she was in foster care in Houston from birth until age 7 — then adopted. She said she was often locked in a dark room for hours and prohibited from eating or drinking. “These agencies, they don’t know what happens. And how can you report that because, at the end of the day, you’ve still got to go home with that person?” Francis said, her voice cracking. Francis said Texas should mandate drug testing for potential foster and adoptive parents, as well as institute ran- dom visits to homes where children are placed. “For the most part, we’re being abused,” Francis said. “I want people to be held accountable.” Roshaude Williams, 23, said he was in foster care until age 19 and lived in two- dozen homes around Texas. He said fos- ter parents put him on medications he didn’t need because state funding in- creased for youngsters with medical problems — and that he eventually at- tempted suicide by walking into traffic. “I guess it’s all right now, but I’ve had 20-something jobs,” Williams said. “I can’t hold one down.” John Specia, commissioner of the De- FOSTER CARE Stories horrify listeners ASSOCIATED PRESS See FOSTER CARE PAGE 9A WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is telling Cen- tral American presidents that the United States and the wider region share responsibil- ity to address an influx of mi- nors and families who are crossing the southwest border of the U.S. He says they all have to de- ter the flow of children across the border because the situa- tion is putting the children and their families at risk. Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met at the White House with the presidents of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Obama said children with- out a proper claim to stay will be returned to their countries. He said the U.S. will turn back border crossers not be- cause of a lack of compassion but because the U.S. is a nation of laws. Meanwhile, House Republi- cans tried to agree on their own proposed solution to the crisis at the Mexican border. IMMIGRATION OVERLOAD Asking for help Obama: US, region share responsibility for refugees By JOSH LEDERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS See IMMIGRATION PAGE 10A MISSION — Three heavily armed Texas patrol boats rounded a bend in the Rio Grande on a recent afternoon and came upon two young men paddling an inflatable raft full- speed ahead toward the Mexi- can shore. The state troopers and game wardens bobbed help- lessly in their boats as the men passed their raft and paddles up the bank to others, and a crew of troopers peeked through the tall reeds on the U.S. side for whatever load had just been de- posited. It was illustrated the limita- tions U.S. agencies face in deter- ring smugglers at the Texas border in the face of Gov. Rick Perry’s recent announcement to send as many as 1,000 National Guard troops down. Combined, the two gunboats from the state’s Department of Public Safety and one from the Parks and Wildlife Department carried 2,400 horsepower and 15 .30-caliber machine guns — in- disputably the most advanced craft on the Rio Grande. But they were foiled Thurs- day by an 8-foot raft and smug- glers’ scouts who track their movements from the moment the patrols hit water. A short time earlier when the patrol boats passed in the opposite di- rection, two men — likely scouts — had stood in the same BORDER SAFETY DANGEROUS RIVER JOB Texas Department of Safety Troopers patrol on the Rio Grande along the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday, in Mis- sion. Texas is spending $1.3 million a week for a bigger DPS presence along the border. 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Federal officials by 2012 foundthe number of adults and famliesillegally entering the UnitedStates from El Salvador, Guatema-

la and Honduras began to growrapidly.

The number of Central Ameri-can minors making the trip with-out their parents — who are af-forded greater protections under a2008 U.S. anti-trafficking law —was a subset of the larger phe-nomenon, officials said.

“It was more than it had been,but it wasn’t something thatwould cause you to sort of dropeverything and say we’re in a cri-

sis,” said a person familiar withinternal deliberations.

In Texas and in Central Amer-ica, officials viewed the situationwith greater alarm. In April 2012,the first ladies of Mexico, Hondu-ras and Guatemala voiced theirconcerns at a conference in Wash-ington on unaccompanied minors.

“The statistics are worrisome,”said Guatemala’s Rosa Maria Lealde Perez.

A week later, Texas Gov. Rick

Perry, a Republican, wrote a blis-tering letter to Obama, citing a 90percent increase over the previousyear in the number unaccompa-nied minors arriving from CentralAmerica. If the president failed“to take immediate action to re-turn these minors to their coun-tries of origin and prevent and dis-courage others from coming here,the federal government is perpetu-ating the problem,” Perry wrote.“Every day of delay risks more

lives. Every child allowed to re-main encourages hundreds moreto attempt the journey.”

Inside the Obama administra-tion, officials at the Department ofHomeland Security were focusingmost of their efforts on adults. Ja-net Napolitano, then secretary ofhomeland security, implored hercounterparts in Mexico to in-crease border security to reduce

MIGRANT CHILDREN

Turning point for Central Am. minors was ’12Editor’s note: This is part two of

a three-part series on warnings ofan influx of immigrant children in-to the United States.

By DAVID NAKAMURA, JERRY MARKON AND MANUEL ROIG-FRANZIA

THE WASHINGTON POST

See CHILDREN PAGE 9A

AUSTIN — Young adults who grew upin Texas’ foster care system recountedharrowing stories of abuse and emotion-al trauma Thursday for members of alegislative committee looking for ways tobetter protect such children.

Some choked back tears during ahearing of the Texas House Select Com-mittee on Child Protection, and chairwo-man Dawnna Dukes said what she heardmade foster care sometimes sound “likeprison.”

The state’s 17,000-child foster systemhas been under intense scrutiny sinceseven children died of abuse or neglectin fiscal year 2013. Another three died“in kinship care,” after being assigned tolive with relatives.

This year, one foster child has died,but officials are still investigating twosiblings in foster care, ages 4 and 6, whodrowned July 6 in Lake Georgetown,near Austin. An outside review foundchild protective caseworkers only spend26 percent of their job meeting withyoungsters and families.

Lena Francis, now 20, testified thatshe was in foster care in Houston frombirth until age 7 — then adopted. Shesaid she was often locked in a dark roomfor hours and prohibited from eating ordrinking.

“These agencies, they don’t knowwhat happens. And how can you reportthat because, at the end of the day, you’vestill got to go home with that person?”Francis said, her voice cracking.

Francis said Texas should mandatedrug testing for potential foster andadoptive parents, as well as institute ran-dom visits to homes where children areplaced.

“For the most part, we’re beingabused,” Francis said. “I want people tobe held accountable.”

Roshaude Williams, 23, said he was infoster care until age 19 and lived in two-dozen homes around Texas. He said fos-ter parents put him on medications hedidn’t need because state funding in-creased for youngsters with medicalproblems — and that he eventually at-tempted suicide by walking into traffic.

“I guess it’s all right now, but I’ve had20-something jobs,” Williams said. “Ican’t hold one down.”

John Specia, commissioner of the De-

FOSTER CARE

Storieshorrify

listenersASSOCIATED PRESS

See FOSTER CARE PAGE 9A

WASHINGTON — PresidentBarack Obama is telling Cen-tral American presidents thatthe United States and thewider region share responsibil-ity to address an influx of mi-

nors and families who arecrossing the southwest borderof the U.S.

He says they all have to de-ter the flow of children acrossthe border because the situa-tion is putting the children andtheir families at risk.

Obama and Vice President

Joe Biden met at the WhiteHouse with the presidents ofHonduras, Guatemala and ElSalvador.

Obama said children with-out a proper claim to stay willbe returned to their countries.

He said the U.S. will turnback border crossers not be-

cause of a lack of compassionbut because the U.S. is a nationof laws.

Meanwhile, House Republi-cans tried to agree on theirown proposed solution to thecrisis at the Mexican border.

IMMIGRATION OVERLOAD

Asking for helpObama: US, region share responsibility for refugees

By JOSH LEDERMANASSOCIATED PRESS

See IMMIGRATION PAGE 10A

MISSION — Three heavilyarmed Texas patrol boatsrounded a bend in the RioGrande on a recent afternoonand came upon two young menpaddling an inflatable raft full-speed ahead toward the Mexi-can shore. The state troopersand game wardens bobbed help-lessly in their boats as the menpassed their raft and paddles upthe bank to others, and a crewof troopers peeked through thetall reeds on the U.S. side forwhatever load had just been de-posited.

It was illustrated the limita-tions U.S. agencies face in deter-ring smugglers at the Texasborder in the face of Gov. RickPerry’s recent announcement tosend as many as 1,000 NationalGuard troops down.

Combined, the two gunboatsfrom the state’s Department ofPublic Safety and one from theParks and Wildlife Department

carried 2,400 horsepower and 15.30-caliber machine guns — in-disputably the most advancedcraft on the Rio Grande.

But they were foiled Thurs-day by an 8-foot raft and smug-glers’ scouts who track theirmovements from the momentthe patrols hit water. A shorttime earlier when the patrolboats passed in the opposite di-rection, two men — likelyscouts — had stood in the same

BORDER SAFETY

DANGEROUS RIVER JOB

Texas Department of Safety Troopers patrol on the Rio Grande along the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday, in Mis-sion. Texas is spending $1.3 million a week for a bigger DPS presence along the border.

Photos by Eric Gay/pool | AP

Deterrenceis a goal,challenge

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMANASSOCIATED PRESS

See RIVER PAGE 10A

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Saturday, July 26St. John Neumann’s Ladies Altar

Society Rummage Sale. 7 a.m. to 1p.m. 102 W. Hillside. Clothes, kitchenwares, toys, books, linens, furnitureand much more available. Contact LilyCastillo at [email protected].

Auditions for tuition-free dancetraining program for boys. Noon to 2p.m. Laredo School ContemporaryDance, 5901 McPherson Road. Boysages 8-17 with some or no previoustraining and a strong desire to dance.For audition details and to confirm at-tendance, contact Jessica Zamarripa atlaredoscd.gmail.com.

5th Annual Cat Appreciation Day— Cat Contest. 3:30 p.m. to 6 pm.North PETCO. Cat Appreciation Dayproclamation at 3:30 p.m. Registrationfor Live categories and for unframedphoto categories from 3:30 p.m. to 4p.m. Judging and awards for registeredlive cats from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Judg-ing and awards for registered unframedcat photos from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. $10donation for each participating catego-ry. Contact Birdie at 286-7866.

Cigarroa High School Class of ’9420th year reunion. Contact VeronicaSanchez at [email protected].

Monday, July 28Commissioners Court meeting. 9

a.m. to noon. Zapata County Court-house. Contact Roxy Elizondo at 765-9920.

Monthly meeting of Laredo Par-kinson’s Disease Support Group. 6:30p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Laredo Medical Cen-ter, Tower B, First Floor CommunityCenter. Patients, caregivers and familymembers invited. Free info pamphletsavailable in Spanish and English. CallRichard Renner (English) at 645-8649or Juan Gonzalez (Spanish) at 237-0666.

Thursday, July 31Grief support group. Noon to

1:30 p.m. First United MethodistChurch, 1220 McClelland Ave. Free andopen to public. Contact Patricia Cisne-ros at 722-1674 or [email protected].

Los Amigos Duplicate BridgeClub. 1:15 p.m. to 5 p.m. Laredo Coun-try Club. Contact Beverly Cantu at 727-0589 for more information.

Spanish Book Club. 6 p.m. to 8p.m. Laredo Public Library – Calton.Contact Sylvia Reash 763-1810.

“The Calling” series of Bibletalks. 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. LaredoChurch of Christ Chapel, 1505 Calle delNorte, Suite 340. Contact Miguel Zuñi-ga at 286-9631 or mglzuñ[email protected].

Laredo A&M Mother’s Club’s an-nual membership drive and get-ac-quainted party. 6 p.m. CommerceBank, 5800 San Dario Ave. Club’s solegoal is to provide support for currentand future students attending TexasA&M University in College Station, aswell as to parents. Contact Diana T.E.Lopez at 236-9549, Veronica Villarrealat 744-6691 or any club member.

Laredo Crime Stoppers BowlingTournament, in memory of Ramiro Bar-rera Jr. 5:30 p.m. Jett Bowl North. Fiveperson team $125. Free memorial tow-el. Contact 724-1876, email [email protected] or visit laredocrimestop-pers.org.

Saturday, Aug. 2Used book sale, hosted by First

United Methodist Church. 8:30 a.m. to1 p.m. 1220 McClelland Ave. Hardbackbooks are $1, paperback books 50cents, and magazines and children’sbooks 25 cents.

Tuesday, Aug. 5The Alzheimer’s support group

will meet Tuesday August 5th at 7pmin meeting room 2, building B of theLaredo Medical Center. The supportgroup is for family members and care-givers taking care of someone who hasAlzheimer’s.

Monday, Aug. 11Commissioners Court meeting. 9

a.m. to noon. Zapata County Court-house. Contact Roxy Elizondo at 765-9920.

Saturday, Aug. 23Annual Back to School Kid’s Fish-

ing Tournament. 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bra-vo Park Pond. Contact [email protected].

Monday, Aug. 25Commissioners Court meeting. 9

a.m. to noon. Zapata County Court-house. Contact Roxy Elizondo at 765-9920.

CALENDARASSOCIATED PRESS

Today is Saturday, July 26,the 207th day of 2014. Thereare 158 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in His-tory:

On July 26, 1775, BenjaminFranklin became America’sfirst Postmaster-General.

On this date:In 1788, New York became

the 11th state to ratify the U.S.Constitution.

In 1882, the Richard Wagneropera “Parsifal” premiered inBayreuth, Germany.

In 1908, U.S. Attorney Gen-eral Charles J. Bonaparte or-dered creation of a force ofspecial agents that was a fore-runner of the Federal Bureauof Investigation.

In 1912, the Edison Studiosproduction “What Happenedto Mary,” one of the first, ifnot very first, movie serials,was released with Mary Fullerin the title role.

In 1947, President Harry S.Truman signed the NationalSecurity Act, which establish-ed the National Military Es-tablishment (later renamedthe Department of Defense).

In 1953, Fidel Castro beganhis revolt against FulgencioBatista (fool-HEN’-see-oh bah-TEES’-tah) with an unsuccess-ful attack on an army bar-racks in eastern Cuba. (Castroousted Batista in 1959.)

In 1956, the Italian liner An-drea Doria sank off New Eng-land, some 11 hours after col-liding with the Swedish linerStockholm; at least 51 peopledied.

In 1971, Apollo 15 waslaunched from Cape Kennedyon America’s fourth mannedmission to the moon.

In 1989, Mark Wellman, a29-year-old paraplegic, reachedthe summit of El Capitan inYosemite (yoh-SEHM’-uh-tee)National Park after haulinghimself up the granite cliff sixinches at a time over ninedays.

In 1990, President GeorgeH.W. Bush signed the Ameri-cans with Disabilities Act.

Ten years ago: The Demo-cratic Party’s 44th nationalconvention opened in Bostonunder extraordinarily tight se-curity; a parade of speakersthat included former Presi-dent Bill Clinton castigatedGeorge W. Bush as a presidentwho had mishandled the econ-omy and bungled the war onterror.

Five years ago: Choreogra-pher and dancer Merce Cun-ningham died in New York atage 90.

One year ago: Ariel Cas-tro, the man who’d imprisonedthree women in his Clevelandhome, subjecting them to adecade of rapes and beatings,pleaded guilty to 937 counts ina deal to avoid the death pen-alty. (Castro later committedsuicide in prison.)

Today’s Birthdays: Ac-tress Marjorie Lord is 96. Ac-tor James Best is 88. Actress-singer Darlene Love is 73.Singer Brenton Wood is 73.Rock star Mick Jagger is 71.Movie director Peter Hyams is71. Actress Helen Mirren is 69.Rock musician Roger Taylor(Queen) is 65. Actress SusanGeorge is 64. Olympic goldmedal figure skater DorothyHamill is 58. Actor KevinSpacey is 55. Rock singer GaryCherone (sher-OWN’) is 53. Ac-tress Sandra Bullock is 50.Rock singer Jim Lindberg(Pennywise) is 49.

Thought for Today: “A lifespent making mistakes is notonly more honorable, butmore useful than a life spentdoing nothing.” — GeorgeBernard Shaw (born this datein 1856, died 1950).

TODAY IN HISTORY

DALLAS — Formerly conjoined twin boyscelebrated their first birthday Thursdaywith those who helped care for them at theDallas hospital where they were separated.

Emmett and Owen Ezell, who turned 1 lastweek, returned to Medical City Children’sHospital where they were separated last Au-gust. The twins, who shared a liver and in-testines when born, left the hospital for in-patient rehabilitation in April and finallywere able to go home in June.

“We dreamed of this day and this momentand them reaching this milestone but itwasn’t a reality,” said their mother, JenniEzell. “And we’ve made it through and we’relooking forward to many, many more birth-days.”

The boys breathe on their own but still re-

ly on feeding tubes. Their mother says theyboth were sitting up even before they left thehospital.

“Owen is about to start crawling, he’s so,so close. And I figure once he starts going,that one is going to be really close behindhim,” she said, pointing at Emmett. “They’redoing really well. They’re hitting the mile-stones that they need to be and we’re look-ing forward to the ones that are coming up.”

The boys, who weighed a combined 11pounds, 15 ounces at birth, now each weighabout 20 pounds.

Their father, Dave Ezell, said they aregrateful to those who cared for their sons atthe hospital.

“Every one of these people have gone outof their way to take care of these little boys.There aren’t words to express the gratitudethat we feel for these people,” he said.

AROUND TEXAS

Emmett Ezell, second from right, is kissed by his father, Dave, as his brother, Owen, is held by his mother, Jenni, as theyprepare for a group photo with caregivers at Medical City Children’s Hospital in Dallas on Thursday. The formerly conjoinedtwin boys returned to the hospital where they were surgically separated to celebrate their first birthday.

Photo by Associated Press

Twins celebrate birthdayASSOCIATED PRESS

2 men charged withleaving children in carHITCHCOCK — Two men

have been arrested after policesay they left two children insidea locked car for about 30 minutesoutside a Texas gas station.

Police removed the two chil-dren from the car. Police chiefClay Kennelly says the childrenwere unharmed but taken to ahospital as a precaution.

AAA: State retail gasolineprices slip 4 cents

IRVING — Texas and nation-wide retail gasoline prices haveslipped 4 cents this week amidlower crude oil costs.

AAA Texas on Thursday re-ported the average price at thepump statewide settled at $3.41per gallon.

Motorists across the U.S. arepaying an average $3.55 per gal-lon.

The survey found Amarillohas the cheapest gasoline in Tex-as this week at $3.32 per gallon.

About 200 dogs, catsseized from shelter

WOLFE CITY — About 200dogs and cats have been seizedfrom a North Texas animal shel-ter amid allegations of neglect.

Officials with the Texas SPCAand Hunt County on Wednesdayremoved the animals from theno-kill Frank Barchard (BAR’-churd) Memorial Shelter, inWolfe City.

2 sisters founddead in apartment

QUITMAN — Two young sis-ters have been found dead intheir East Texas apartment andan evidence tampering chargewas filed against a man who al-legedly was at the home.

Witnesses told police they sawa man running from the apart-ment and throwing items into atrash bin.

Police arrested Thomas WayneLiles of Quitman on a charge oftampering with or fabricatingphysical evidence.

State needs extra year fornew teacher evaluationsAUSTIN — Texas will need an

extra year to unveil a new teach-er evaluation system that’s re-quired as the state seeks relieffrom some curriculum standardsmandated by No Child Left Be-hind.

State Education Commission-er Michael Williams wrote theU.S. Education Department onWednesday saying a pilot evalua-tion program would be delayed12 months.

Military museum getspart of old nuke bombPAMPA — A military museum

in the Texas Panhandle has ac-quired part of an inactive nucle-ar bomb on hand during theCold War.

Pantex Plant crews onWednesday helped unload anempty B53 nuclear weapons caseat the Freedom Museum USA inPampa.

— Compiled from AP reports

Toddler crashes car, runshome to watch cartoonsMYRTLE CREEK, Ore. — Po-

lice say a toddler crashed a Jeepinto an Oregon home, then ranback to his home to watch car-toons.

Authorities say the 3-year-oldboy who was wearing only adiaper climbed into the JeepTuesday evening and knocked itout of gear. Witnesses say itrolled down the street, throughan intersection and into thehouse, causing minor damage.

KPTV reports an officer foundthe boy on a couch watching TVas if nothing had happened.

He said his parents weren’thome and another relative wassleeping. Police cited 22-year-oldBrennan Pennington for failingto supervise a child.

7th Circuit sets hearingon gay marriage ban

INDIANAPOLIS — Lawyers

will argue the constitutionalityof gay marriage bans in Indianaand Wisconsin in about a month.

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court ofAppeals announced Friday thatit has rescheduled arguments forboth states’ appeals of federalcourt decisions for Aug. 26.

Federal judges in Indiana andWisconsin overturned eachstate’s gay marriage ban in sep-arate rulings. When both statesappealed, the 7th Circuit Courtcombined the cases and set asidethe previous hearing date.

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND THE NATION

A woman dressed as the character Katniss Everdeen from the movie, "The Hun-ger Games: Catching Fire," poses in front of Comic-Con Thursday in San Diego.Fans with passes to the pop-culture spectacular flocked to the event Thursday.

Photo by Associated Press

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MCALLEN — When the trucklurched, Danny Sims knew itwasn’t good.

In the rearview mirror hecould see pieces from one histrailer’s tires flying into the air.The car behind him swerved toavoid the trailer’s fender, takenout by the blown tire. The spiral-ing piece of tin mashed itselfagainst an eighteen-wheeler’sgrill farther back.

It was the first of two tires hewould lose that night.

Sims pulled over. The trailer’sside, painted with the Global Sa-maritan Resources logo, was nowalso marked with black streaks.

Sims is the executive directorfor Global Samaritan Resources.The trailer he was towing carrieda full load of cots, used clothingand baby supplies, all of it boundfor the Harvey Drive Church ofChrist in McAllen. Their finaluse would be determined byfaith-based groups responding tothe recent surge of Central Amer-icans crossing the U.S.-Mexicanborder illegally.

Despite the delay, there werestill people at Harvey Drive wait-ing to greet Sims’ group hourslater. More than 20 people beganstacking the cargo inside a back-room of the church’s activity cen-ter. Later, Sims’ group set up cotsin another room, reserved for aBoy Scout troop, and beddeddown for the night.

Over breakfast the next morn-ing, Abel Alvarez, the church’sminister, described the effect ofthe increase of immigrants cross-ing the border.

“I think three years ago, the(annual) numbers were 17,000 to20,000,” he told the Abilene Re-porter-News. “Right now they’veprocessed over 50,000, and we’reexpecting maybe another 90,000by the end of the year.”

All that just since Oct. 1, 2013.“It’s mind-boggling,” Alvarez

said.Most are women traveling with

their children, but other childrenof varying ages are traveling solo.All of them come from the North-ern Triangle of Honduras, Guate-mala and El Salvador.

“It’s mostly Honduras. Wehaven’t had anybody from Mexi-

co,” said Leticia Benavides, whooversees the project operationsfor Sacred Heart CatholicChurch’s immigration assistancecenter. She said the church be-came involved in early June.

“We estimated about 200 peo-ple every day for that first week,”said Benavides.

Twice-daily buses filled withfamilies released by the U.S. Bor-der Patrol are dropped off at thechurch. But where the unaccom-panied immigrant children aretaken, no one seemed to know.

Alvarez said not having accessto those children is becoming anissue with the faith community.

“They need pastoral care andwe’re asking to be let in,” hesaid, adding they’ve so far had noluck.

At Sacred Heart, workers gath-er immigrants’ information incase family members call lookingfor them. Then, the workers seeto the immigrants’ needs.

“They’re fed, we provide themclean clothes, offer them a show-er and have volunteer doctorswho see them for minor things,”said Benavides.

The church is two blocks fromthe bus station. Immigrants usedto collect there, their tickets paid

by family members, until over-crowding forced them out. That’swhen volunteers started takingthem into their homes, and thenSacred Heart.

“We had a lady here from thecenter, we called her El Angel, be-cause at one time she had ninefamilies at her house,” said Bena-vides.

Immigrants may only stay afew hours until they catch a busto wherever they planned to trav-el. Those arriving later in the dayspend the night, sleeping on cotsin air-conditioned tents behindthe church.

While Catholic Charities of theRio Grande Valley is running theoperation, all faiths are welcometo work in it. Alvarez has some-one from his church there andseveral others are being trained.

“It’s amazing, one of the high-lights of this whole operation isthe way we collaborate,” Bena-vides said.

To pay for passage to the U.S.,families raise money any waythey can, including borrowingmoney from relatives or going in-to debt by payment plans withguides who take immigrants partof the way to the border.

Climbing atop the infamous

freight train known as La Bestia— The Beast — has been themost notorious way for immi-grants crossing Mexico to theAmerican border.

It’s also known as The DeathTrain because so many have beenmaimed or killed boarding it.The train normally doesn’t stopfor the immigrants; those peoplemust jump on a moving train.

On July 10, La Bestia derailedin the state of Oaxaca, stranding1,300 immigrants. Rain and over-loading was blamed; it was thethird immigrant train derailmentin southern Mexico in a month.

Mexican authorities a few dayslater ruled, in the interest of safe-ty, they were going to prohibitpeople from riding the trains. Itmay explain the lower immigrantnumbers last week, Benavidessaid.

Immigration is a sore subjectin America. Some label immi-grants entering the country with-out documents as criminals,while others point to Emily Laza-rus’ 1883 poem inscribed underthe Statue of Liberty welcoming“the homeless, tempest-tost (sic).”

But like any political problem,this one has many layers. Themost visible, people crossing the

border, is only the most obvious.“The drug cartels have been

able to collapse any kind of ruleof law,” Alvarez said. He pointedto the valley’s bordering state ofTamaulipas and the Mexican gov-ernment’s ineffectiveness there.

“They don’t run that state, thecartel does,” he said. “So how canI fault some little country in Cen-tral America, who doesn’t have 10cents to rub together?”

Earlier this month, the com-mander for U.S. Southern Com-mand, Marine Corps Gen. JohnKelly, wrote in a column for Mil-itary Times that Northern Trian-gle drug cartels “have left near-broken societies in their wake.”Money fueling the violence, hesays, comes directly from the U.S.illicit drug trade.

Kelly cited U.N. statistics label-ing Honduras as the world’s mostviolent nation, with a rate of 90murders for every 100,000 people.By contrast, recognized warzones, such as the Democratic Re-public of the Congo in 2012, rated28 murders per 100,000.

“I know that the stories thatwe hear over and over again is,‘We’re fleeing the violence,”’ Be-navides said. “We hear, ‘Ourneighbor’s child was kidnapped,he was just 7 and was killed.”’

Alvarez echoed the stories.“Families are saying, ‘Let’s

send whoever we can and get outof here,”’ he said. He called it ahumanitarian crisis with parentswanting their children to have abetter life.

“Not a better life,” he amend-ed. “Just life.”

But calling them refugees hasnot been welcomed. Alvarez hasheard it from all quarters.

“Hey, we have laws for a rea-son, these people ought to goback,” goes the argument.

“That resonates with me,” hesaid. “But if I lived in a situationwhere I thought my kids were go-ing to get murdered on the street,I’d do whatever I could to getthem out of there.”

He cited Leviticus in the Bibleas a guiding light.

“The last section is about be-ing a good neighbor to the peoplearound you,” he said.

Sims said his primary reasonfor coming to McAllen was to as-sess the situation and see whereGSR could help.

Nonprofit serves churches serving migrants

An illegal immigrant family is processed while behind them tables of clothing for children and adults are set out for their useat Sacred Heart Catholic Church, in McAllen.

Photo by Ronald W. Erdrich/The Abilene Reporter-News | AP

By RONALD W. ERDRICHABILENE REPORTER-NEWS

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NEW YORK — This week, two Americansserving in the Israel Defense Forces werekilled in Gaza. Max Steinberg, from Los An-geles, was 24. Sean Carmeli, 22, came fromTexas. Both were Lone Soldiers — Israel’sterm for troops with no immediate familyliving in Israel. I used to be one of them.

In July 1997, when I was 23, I moved to Is-rael from Chicago and joined the 188th Ar-mored Brigade. I was one of two Lone Sol-diers in the platoon. Six months later I de-ployed to Lebanon for operations againstHezbollah.

For me, serving in the IDF was the culmi-nation of an upbringing that included Jew-ish day school, summers at Camp Ramah, anIsrael teen-tour, and countless Israeli ex-change students who slept in our basement.After all those years learning about Hitlerand Haman, concentration camps and po-groms, I was enthralled by the idea of theHero Jew who fought back. I decided it wasunfair to call Israel my homeland unless I,too, helped defend it.

But everyone has their own reasons forvolunteering as a Lone Soldier. In Carmeli’scase, his parents are Israeli. Steinberg, onthe other hand, had never even been to Is-rael until he was 22. His 10-day Birthrighttrip sparked a sense of belonging that com-pelled him to serve. Tim Bailey was the oth-er Lone Soldier in my unit. He was raisedBaptist, but on his 18th birthday his mothertold him she’d been Jewish when he wasborn, which made Tim a Jew in the eyes ofJewish law. Joining the army was part ofTim’s search for his own identity.

Whatever motivates us, the one thingLone Soldiers have in common, is that we’remotivated. Lone Soldiers request combatunits in greater proportion than native Is-raelis, according Garin Tzabar, an organiza-tion that helps American Lone Soldiers ac-climate to the IDF. (Why emigrate to be a pa-per-pusher?) Often, we choose the most elite(read: dangerous) units, like Golani — an in-fantry brigade that was home to Sean andMax.

Army life is tough for anyone, but theLone Soldier faces extra challenges. Thereare international phone bills to pay. Laundryto wash during a Sabbath furlough. The lackof family is especially difficult on weekends,when most soldiers go home to doting moth-ers who spoil them with home-cooked meals.The Lone Soldier, on the other hand, returnsto an empty apartment or a rented room onkibbutz.

Hardest of all, at least for me, is the cul-tural difference. As any Lone Soldier quicklylearns, Israelis aren’t just Jews who happento live in a different country. Israelis have ano-nonsense, in-your-face character thatwould make even the most brazen New York-er shudder. Israelis shout, argue and speaktheir minds — good qualities when you livein a pressure-cooker country like Israel, butshocking to a polite Midwesterner like me.

Nor do Israelis apologize. Ever. Because toapologize is to admit you’re vulnerable —and no one wants to be vulnerable in theMiddle East. On my first visit to the Induc-tion Center, I received my dog tags and no-ticed that my last name, instead of “Chas-noff,” had been engraved “Shitznitz”. “Youmisspelled my name!” I cried out to the sol-dier making the dog tags.

“So don’t die,” he said.Welcome to the Israeli Army.These days, Israelis appreciate the sacri-

fices Lone Soldiers make. But it took thedeath of one of our own for that to happen.His name was Michael Levin. Michael wasraised in Philadelphia and went to Camp Ra-mah, like me. After high school he studied inIsrael and decided to join the army for rea-sons similar to mine.

When Michael, all of 125 pounds, showedup at the Induction Center, the army toldhim to go home. So in a display of true Is-raeliness, Michael scaled a fence, snuck intothe Induction Center and earned himself aspot in the paratroopers. Two years later, hewas killed in a firefight during the summerof 2006 war with Hezbollah. Today, the Mi-chael Levin Lone Soldier Center in Jerusa-lem is a dormitory, hangout and all-aroundresource center for Lone Soldiers, and a re-minder to Israelis that some of its best sol-diers come from afar.

People ask me if I’d do it all over again. Ihad a rough go in the army, particularly inLebanon, when Hezbollah attacked us fromfarms and schools, knowing we’d hesitate tofire back. Those moments, I questioned mydecision to join. In basic training, when Inearly died in a training accident, my faithin the IDF was shaken.

But to be blunt — that is, to be Israeli —my answer is, yes. I’d do it again. The cam-araderie was incredible, and I feel connectedto Israel in a way that can only happen whenyou serve. I bet that if you could ask them,Max and Sean would do it all over again, too.

Chasnoff is a comedian and author of “The188th Crybaby Brigade,” a memoir about histour-of-duty as a tank gunner in the IsraeliArmy.

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DOONESBURY | GARRY TRUDEAU

Terrorism isn’t what itused to be. Disruptive tech-nology is at work, and terror-ism is much more threaten-ing than it was.

The long-running, terroristwars of the last century —like those of the Palestinians,the Basques in Spain, or theKurds in Turkey — were rela-tively contained, both in thefields of operation and the po-litical motivations.

The new face of terrorismis more awful, more random,and has little of the politicalpurpose of terrorism of thepast, however terrible its con-sequences were.

A new generation of robotsis coming, which will makeremotely controlled terrorisma real threat throughout theworld. Add to that threat theprofound difference in terror-ist motivation.

Yesterday’s terrorism,though heinous, could claimhigh purpose: It was whole-sale terrorism with politicalgoals to be attained by mur-der and destruction of civil-ian targets. Today’s terror-ism, by contrast, is increas-ingly retail, motivated byhatred and revenge. Often,the motivation is more reli-gious than nationalistic. The9/11 attacks were the harbin-ger of this new terrorism.

Now take blind, irrationalhatred, as in the Middle East,mix it with killer-robots tech-

nology, and you have a hugeglobal threat.

In May, the United NationsConvention on Certain Con-ventional Weapons conveneda first-ever meeting of expertsin Geneva to discuss LethalAutonomous Weapons Sys-tems, which could be thestart of a wave of anonymouskilling across continents andoceans.

These new robotic weap-ons can do everything that ahuman with a bomb or im-provised explosive can do.The old brake on terrorism— that the terrorist would becaught or, more likely, bekilled in the attack — couldbe over. The age of the arm-chair terrorist is at hand.

We have all seen the car-nage from a simple bombmade from fuel oil and fertil-izer. Now add to that the pos-sibility that bombs and otherweapons could be made andstored for future detonationusing mobile phone technolo-gy; or that remotely operatedvehicles could drive down astreet with machine gunsblazing.

Then there are drones. TheUnited States has pioneeredthe highly sophisticated Pred-ator — remotely piloted vehi-

cles that can destroy a targetacross continents and oceanswith precision. But non-lethaldrones are doing all sorts ofwork, from examining pipe-lines to determining theviews from potential sky-scrapers in New York.

Not only will tomorrow’sterrorists have farther reach,but they will also have the In-ternet to create chaos. Imag-ine a Web whisper about adrone armed with biologicalor chemical agents flyingover a big city, its effectsmagnified by public panic.Likewise, a drone armedwith a dirty nuclear weaponits impact is likely to be quitelimited, but the public panicover radiation could cause se-vere incident.

Israel may have been morepanicked over the appearanceof a drone from Gaza thanthe rockets that the IronDome missile system tookout. A slow-moving drone atrooftop level might one daybe a greater threat than a fu-sillade of high-flying rockets.

The late James Schlesin-ger, a former Defense secreta-ry and CIA director, liked todiscuss the British Empireand how it had held togetherwith me. Because I had

grown up in a British colony,he thought I could tell him.

The answer is a combina-tion of economics, psychologyand formation before theworldwide proliferation ofsmall arms and explosives. Itwas fundamental after the In-dian Mutiny of 1857-58 thatweapons be kept strictly inthe hands of the British. Afri-can regiments and police, forexample, were seldom armed,and then only for special pur-poses.

Schlesinger emphasizedthat all arms developmentsdemanded further develop-ments, because your enemywould soon catch up withyou. This has happenedthroughout history: The Brit-ish invented the tank inWorld War I, the Germansperfected it in World War IIand overran Europe with itsPanzer divisions.

Those who hate the Westmay use its own technologiesto attack it at random withremote-controlled weapons,mobile phones, Google maps,and vehicles invented inAmerica. Disruptive technol-ogies are coming to terrorism— and that’s a horror.

Llewellyn King’s e-mail [email protected]

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Armchair terrorists bringingus remote control terrorismBy LLEWELLYN KING

HEARST NEWSPAPERS The new face of terrorism is more awful, more random,and has little of the political purpose of terrorism of thepast, however terrible its consequences were.

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TWISP, Wash. — About300 homes — twice as manyas previously estimated —have burned in the largestrecorded wildfire in Wash-ington state history, a coun-ty sheriff said Friday.

Officials had placed thenumber of homes destroyedat 150 in north-centralWashington’s Carlton firecomplex. But OkanoganCounty Sheriff Frank Rog-ers said he knew that fig-ure would rise becausecrews hadn’t been able toreach some of the burnedareas.

The updated estimatecame after Rogers and hisdeputies drove 750 miles ofroadway through the black-ened area, surveying thedevastation.

“It’s every road. Everyroad lost something,” Rog-ers said. “It looks like amoonscape; there’s nothingleft. There’s hundreds ofdead livestock. It’s horrify-ing.”

At nearly 400 squaremiles, the lightning-causedCarlton Complex haseclipsed the 1902 YacoltBurn, which killed 38 peo-ple and consumed about 373square miles, or 238,920acres, in southwest Wash-ington. The Carlton Com-plex has been blamed forthe death of a man who ap-peared to suffer a heart at-tack while trying to protecthis property.

Fire crews have reportedgood progress in the lastfew days, with coolerweather and rain helping

in getting the fire a littlemore than half contained.But officials were con-cerned that hotter, drierweather and wind gusts inthe forecast could increasefire activity.

The fire has been burn-ing in the scenic MethowValley, a popular area forhiking and fishing about180 miles northeast of Seat-tle. The fire destroyed 30homes in the town of Pate-ros, one of the worst-hit ar-eas.

Power was finally re-stored to parts of the valley,including Twisp and Win-throp, on Friday, eight daysafter the fire burned twokey utility lines. But manypeople in outlying areas re-mained without electricity,Rogers said.

Gov. Jay Inslee on Fridayextended a burn ban fordry eastern Washington forone more week. The banhad been set to end Friday.

“While fire crews havemade significant progressover the past week in bring-ing the fires under control,weather conditions are stilla concern and we need tocontinue erring on the sideof safety,” Inslee said. “Re-sources are still stretchedthin and we want every-thing we have focused oncontaining the remainingfires and helping impactedfamilies.”

He also said that thestate would waive permitrequirements for anyone inthe affected areas whowants to use extra-largegenerators because they re-main without power.

Sheriff: 300homes gone inWash. wildfire

Fire is described as the largest inWashington state history

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LONG BEACH, Calif. —Prosecutors decidingwhether to charge a Cali-fornia man who says hefatally shot a violent bur-glar in the back in an al-ley as she fled his homeface a difficult decisionbecause the case falls in agray area involving self-defense, a legal expertsaid Friday.

Long Beach homeownerTom Greer, 80, told a TVstation he began firing af-ter his collarbone wasbroken during an assaultby the woman and a manthat Greer discovered inhis home.

Long Beach policeChief Jim McDonnell saysthe homeowner shot at 28-year-old Andrea Miller inan alley.

Greer said he fired atthe burglars inside andoutside his home, eventhough the female burglartold him not to shoot be-cause she was pregnant.

“The lady didn’t run asfast as the man, so I shother in the back twice,”Greer told KNBC-TV out-side his house. “She’sdead ... but he got away.”

An autopsy will deter-mine if Miller was actual-ly pregnant, Los AngelesCounty coroner’s spokes-man Ed Winter said.

Gus Adams, 26, her sus-pected accomplice, waslater booked on suspicionof residential burglaryand murder and was be-ing held on bail of justover $1 million. The mur-der charge is possible be-cause Adams is accused ofparticipating in a felonythat led to a death, policeChief Jim McDonnell said.

The case was referredon Friday to prosecutors

who will have to decidewhether to charge Adamsand Greer. A decisionmight not come untilMonday.

Under California law,homeowners have a rightto protect themselves withdeadly force inside theirhomes and in the immedi-ate vicinity — such as apatio — if they feel theyare in imminent danger ofgreat bodily injury ordeath, said Lawrence Ro-senthal, a former federalprosecutor and who teach-es law at Chapman Uni-versity.

But this case enters agray area because Greer,by his own account,chased the burglars andfired at them outside hishome as they were flee-ing, Rosenthal said.

Prosecutors will have todecide if the evidenceshows the immediatethreat had subsided bythe time Greer firedagain, or if he still couldreasonably fear for hislife.

“As a technical matter,

this would be a homicide,possibly second-degreemurder or voluntary man-slaughter, but that doesn’tmean that you shouldcharge everything that’stechnically an offense,”Rosenthal said.

“The problem here isthat all this happens veryfast and his legal right touse force probably endedjust a few seconds beforehe did use deadly force. Sothe question is should youcharge somebody on thebasis of what really was aseries of split-second deci-sions when he’s just beenrobbed and physically as-saulted?”

Miller and Adams, whohad histories of similarcrimes, were unarmed,McDonnell said.

Greer had been burglar-ized three times beforeand believed the samesuspects were responsible.

He returned homeshortly after 9 p.m. Tues-day to find the pair in hishome. Police said bothsuspects attacked him,hitting him with their

fists and ultimately body-slamming him to the floorand breaking his collar-bone, McDonnell said.Miller continued to hithim, McDonnell said,while Adams went to asafe and tried to pry itopen.

When Miller left him toalso work on the safe,Greer was able to get toanother room where hegrabbed a gun and return-ed to open fire on the sus-pects, police said.

They fled through thegarage and into an alley,and Greer chased them,firing again, McDonnellsaid.

McDonnell would notsay whether Miller wasshot in the back as Greersaid. He also declined tosay how many shots werefired and whether eitherof the suspects was hit in-side the house before flee-ing.

No phone listing wasavailable for Greer and hecould not be reached forcomment by The Associat-ed Press.

Authorities target victim, 80

Sgt. Israel Ramirez with the Long Beach Police Department addresses the media Thursday, in LongBeach, Calif. Police could arrest an 80-year-old man who shot a fleeing, unarmed burglar.

Photo by Sean Hiller/The Press-Telegram | AP

Homicideconsidered after

burglar killedASSOCIATED PRESS

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los usados por las Damas dela Sociedad del Altar de St.John Neumann, de 7 a.m. a1 p.m., en terrenos de laiglesia, 102 W. Hillside. Ha-brá ropa, artículos de coci-na, juguetes, libros, blancos,muebles, entre otras cosas.

07/26— Quinto día An-nual de Apreciación de losGatos – Concurso de Gatos,en la tienda PETCO, 2450Monarch Dr., de 3:30 p.m. a6 p.m. Donación, 10 dólarespor cada categoría dondeparticipe la mascota. Las ga-nancias se destinarán a im-plementar un programa paraatrapar, castrar o esterilizar,y regresar, en Laredo. Deta-lles en el (956) 286-7866.

07/26— Exhibición “Des-cubre a los Dinosaurios” enLaredo Energy Arena, de 10a.m. a 8 p.m. Evento tienecosto. Visite learena.com pa-ra más información.

07/26— Audiciones paraformar parte del programagratuito para bailarines (va-rones) de 8 a 17 años deedad por parte del LaredoSchool of ContemporaryDance. Cita es de 12 p.m. a2 p.m. en 5901 McPhersonRd. Ste 12-13A. Informes enel (956) 220-1532.

07/26— El PlanetarioLamar Bruni Vergara de TA-MIU, estará proyectando“Star Signs” a las 3 p.m.;Black Holes” a las 4 p.m.; y“Pink Floyd: Dark Side of theMoon” a las 5 p.m. Costo deadmisión general es de 4dólares para niños y 5 dóla-res adultos.

07/26— La empresa Li-berty Tax Service, 1102 NMeadow, esquina con Chi-huahua, invita a un semina-rio gratuito sobre el tema“Impuestos para Auto Em-pleo” relacionados a conse-jos para libros de contabili-dad, de 7 p.m. a 9 p.m. In-formes llamando al (956)717-1040 y (832) 275-5727.

07/26— LTGI y TAMIUpresentan ‘My Fair Lady’, alas 8 p.m. en el Teatro delCenter for the Fine and Per-forming Arts de TAMIU. Cos-to: 20 dólares; 15 dólarespara estudiantes con ID yadultos mayores. Informesen el (956) 319-8610.

07/26— “The Little Mer-maid Jr” de Disney se pre-senta en Laredo Little Thea-ter, 4802 Thomas Avenue, alas 8 p.m. Costo: 10 dólares,adultos, y 5 dólares, niños.

07/26— Reunión de laGeneración ’94 de CigarroaHigh School, a llevarse a ca-bo hoy y el sábado 26 dejulio. Contacte a VerónicaSánchez a [email protected] paramás información.

07/27— Carrera de bici-cleta, organizada por Nopa-looza MTB Race Team Rebe-lution, se realizará en elRancho Morales, por MinesRoad. Habrá desde categoríainfantil hasta profesional.Amenizarán los Jolly Ran-chers, y se ofrecerá entrete-nimiento, regalos, bebidas ycomida. Costos: División U16(niños), 10 dólares; resto delas divisiones, 30 dólares.Inscríbase visitando bikereg-.com. Carrera iniciará a las8:30 a.m.

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WASHINGTON— El presidenteBarack Obama instará a los manda-tarios de Honduras, El Salvador yGuatemala a que traten de dismi-nuir la afluencia de niños no acom-pañados que huyen de sus países aEstados Unidos aunque el Congresosiga profundamente dividido conrespecto a algunas iniciativas presu-puestales para frenar la crisis en lafrontera.

La reunión del viernes se produ-ce mientras el gobierno considerala creación de un programa pilotoque ofrecería el estatus de refugia-dos a los jóvenes hondureños. Fun-cionarios de la Casa Blanca dijeronque el plan incluiría una investiga-ción de los antecedentes de los jóve-

nes en su país para determinar sicalifican, o no, como refugiados.

El programa sólo incluye y seiniciaría en Honduras pero podríaser ampliado para incluir otros paí-ses de Centroamérica, dijeron fun-cionarios de la Casa Blanca.

La Casa Blanca dice que los re-quisitos que establece de Ley de In-migración y Ciudadanía para otor-gar el estatus de refugiado seríanlos mismos para los jóvenes hondu-reños y añadió que el objetivo es di-suadir a quienes no califican comorefugiados antes de que inicien elpeligroso viaje.

Los funcionarios dieron esta in-formación a los periodistas antes dela reunión de Obama bajo la condi-ción de que no fueran identificados.

Dos de los tres mandatarios cen-troamericanos han dicho que desco-nocen el plan.

“Este tema lo estamos tratandolos tres países de forma conjunta.No miraría la razón por la cual sedé un trato a unos y un trato aotros", dijo el presidente guatemal-teco Otto Pérez Molina a periodistasen la Organización de los EstadosAmericanos. “Aquí hemos estadodando un mensaje en la misma lí-nea el presidente de Honduras, el deEl Salvador y mi persona, y espera-mos que también la solución paraeste problema sea recíproco paralos tres países”.

Los tres líderes centroamerica-nos visitaron la mañana del viernesel Banco Interamericano de Desa-rrollo, cuyo presidente Luis Enri-que Moreno les ofreció apoyo técni-co para diseñar un plan de largoplazo que combata las causas es-tructurales de la crisis, con apoyode otros gobiernos e instituciones.

Los congresistas estadounidensesestán estudiando varias adicionespresupuestales del gobierno por3.700 millones de dólares para en-viar a los niños no acompañados devuelta a sus países de origen conmayor rapidez. Pero no parece pro-bable que resuelvan sus diferenciasantes de que vuelvan a sus distritoselectorales a finales la próxima se-mana cuando inicie su receso deagosto.

Más de 57.000 menores han llega-do a Estados Unidos desde octubre,en su mayoría de Honduras, Guate-mala y El Salvador. El trío de nacio-nes se ha convertido en una de lasregiones más violentas del mundoen los últimos años, con franjas delos tres países bajo el control de tra-ficantes de drogas y pandillas queroban, violan y extorsiona a susciudadanos con entera impunidad.

NACIONAL

Reunión gestoresPOR JOSH LEDERMAN Y

LUIS ALONSO LUGOASSOCIATED PRESS

PÁGINA 6A Zfrontera SABADO 26 DE JULIO DE 2014

MEXICO — Seis pre-suntos miembros del cri-men organizado murie-ron en tiroteos en Ta-maulipas, informaron lasautoridades estatales.

El gobierno de Tamau-lipas indicó en un comu-nicado de prensa quecinco de las personas fa-llecieron tras enfrenta-mientos entre grupos ri-vales, y otro más en untiroteo de hombres arma-dos con marinos.

La mayoría de los en-frentamientos ocurrió enla municipalidad de Va-lle Hermoso, cercano a lafrontera con Texas, don-de las autoridades locali-zaron los cuerpos de cin-co hombres con edadesde entre 30 y 40 añosquienes fueron asesina-dos en el estacionamien-to de una tienda de con-veniencia.

En otro hecho, tam-bién en Valle Hermoso,hombres armados ataca-ron a marinos que patru-llaban la zona y tras untiroteo murió uno de losagresores.

Los enfrentamientosocurrieron la noche delmartes y el gobierno deTamaulipas las dio a co-nocer la noche del miér-coles. Ninguna de las víc-timas ha sido identifica-da y tampoco a quégrupo del crimen organi-zado pertenecerían.

Tamaulipas es un esta-do en el que en los últi-mos años se han regis-trado enfrentamientosentre los carteles rivalesdel Golfo y Los Zetas.

SEGURIDAD

Muerenseis

durantecombates

Incidentesocurrieron en

Valle Hermoso,México

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El auge energético queestá trayendo más nuevosempleos y prosperidad alas comunidades en la re-gión de Eagle Ford Shale,también está dejando mástráfico, personal de trabajoy camionetas a las carrete-ras locales. En un esfuerzopara reducir los accidentesen las áreas donde se haincrementado el tráfico, elDepartamento de Trans-portes de Texas (TxDOT,

por sus siglas en inglés)recuerda a los conductoresa “Manténgase seguro.Conduzca Inteligentemen-te”, en las áreas de trabajoenergético, este verano.

“La actividad petroleraha creado un volumen sinprecedentes de tráfico enmuchas partes de nuestroestado”, dijo el TenienteGeneral Joe Weber, direc-tor ejecutivo de TxDOT.“Es más importante quenunca que los conductorespongan total atención a la

carretera. También debenobedecer las leyes de tráfi-co y bajar la velocidadcuando transiten por co-munidades con actividadpetrolera”.

En colaboración con laindustria de gas y petró-leo, las comunidades loca-les y fuerzas del orden lacampaña de TxDOT “Man-téngase seguro. ConduzcaInteligentemente” tiene co-mo objetivo reducir el nú-mero de accidentes y fata-lidades en la región de Ea-

gle Ford Shale. Paraayudar a multiplicar loshábitos de conducción se-gura, TxDOT ha colocadomás señalética vial en lasáreas petroleras. Estas se-ñales recordarán a los re-sidentes locales y viajerosel “Darles Espacio a losTrailers”, “Conducir aho-ra, Enviar Mensajes Des-pués”, “De Verdad, Dete-nerse Significa Detener-se”, entre otros.

En 2013 se reportaron3.450 accidentes de tráfico

en el área de Eagle FordShale, que resultó en lesio-nes graves para los involu-crados e incluso en fatali-dades, un incremento de 7por ciento sobre el númerodel año pasado. El resulta-do fue de 238 fatalidadesen un área de 26 condadosalrededor del área de Ea-gle Ford Shale que vandesde Laredo hasta Hunt-sville.

Para más informaciónpuede llamar al (512) 463-8700.

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TxDOT exhorta a conducir con seguridadESPECIAL PARA TIEMPO DE ZAPATA

Un equipo del Estado de Ta-maulipas, ha sido acreedor altítulo Nacional Pre Infantil en

la categoría de 9 y 10 años, despuésde ganar al equipo de Sonora, en elparque anfitrión de la Liga “TreviñoKelly”, en Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mé-xico, el martes.

Fue en la novena entrada que elequipo de Reynosa se impuso con unmarcador de 2 carreras a una, señalaun comunicado. Sonora hizo su úni-ca carrera en la primera entrada porconducto de Luis Serna mientrasque los niños tamaulipecos lo hicie-ron en el cierre del sexto episodio através de Marlon Rodríguez y CésarMonjarraz.

El pitcher ganador fue Isaac Mi-randa con salvamento de Ever Sosaen el séptimo episodio en donde lossonorenses buscaban la carrera delempate pero los lanzamientos de So-sa, impidieron la igualada para darlea Tamaulipas un logro deportivo na-cional en México.

Al evento acudieron equipos re-presentativos de San Luis Potosí, Ba-ja California Norte, Baja CaliforniaSur, Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Coa-huila A y B., Distrito Federal, Duran-

go, La Laguna, Nayarit, Nuevo León,Puebla, Veracruz, Sonora y Tamauli-pas, todos estados mexicanos.

El torneo fue realizado en honor al

Alcalde de Reynosa, José Elías Leal,como manera para agradecer el apo-yo al deporte en este municipio, sos-tiene un comunicado.

REYNOSA, MÉXICO

TÍTULO NACIONAL

En la imagen los niños integrantes del equipo de Reynosa, México, que ganó el título Nacional Pre Infantil en la categoría de 9 y 10 años,mostrando sus medallas y el trofeo de primer lugar, tras su victoria el martes por la tarde.

Foto de cortesía | Gobierno de Tamaulipas

Se corona equipo de categoría 9-10 añosESPECIAL PARA TIEMPO DE ZAPATA

En la imagen los niños integrantes del equipo de Reynosa, México, que ganó el título Na-cional Pre Infantil en la categoría de 9 y 10 años, después de anotar la segunda carreraque les diera la victoria frente al equipo de Sonora el martes por la tarde.

Foto de cortesía | Gobierno de Tamaulipas

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SATURDAY, JULY 26, 2014 Nation THE ZAPATA TIMES 7A

MEDIA, Pa. — A psychi-atric patient ranted abouta hospital gun ban beforeopening fire at the subur-ban medical complex, kill-ing his caseworker andgrazing his psychiatrist be-fore the doctor pulled outhis own weapon and firedback, authorities said Fri-day.

Dr. Lee Silverman emp-tied his chamber, strikingpatient Richard Plotts sev-eral times. Plotts by thenhad shot the caseworker inthe face and fired severalshots at Silverman, includ-ing one that grazed histemple and another thatstruck his thumb, officialsaid.

Plotts had 39 unspentbullets on him when hewas wrestled to the groundat Mercy Fitzgerald Hospi-tal in Darby, authoritiessay — and police believehe had planned to usethem.

“I believe that if the doc-tor did not have a firearm,(and) the doctor did notutilize the firearm, he’d bedead today, and I believethat other people in thatfacility would also bedead,” Delaware CountyDistrict Attorney JackWhelan said Friday.

Plotts, 49, was sedatedbut in stable condition af-ter surgery Thursday fromhis gunshot wounds, policesaid. They expect to ar-raign him bedside at a Phi-ladelphia hospital on Fri-day, charging him withmurder in the death of 53-year-old caseworker Barba-ra Hunt.

Plotts does not have alisted home number, and itwas unclear if he has rela-tives in the area.

“When the caseworkerwas shot, (Silverman)crouched down behind thedesk to avoid him beingshot,” Whelan said. “Hewas able to reach for hisweapon, and realizing itwas a life-or-death situa-tion, was able to engage

the defendant in the ex-change of gunfire.”

The struggle spilled intothe hallway, where anotherdoctor and caseworkerjumped in to help Silver-man and secure Plotts’weapon, Whelan said.

Police in Upper Darby,where Plotts lived, wereaware of at least threemental health commit-ments — once after he cuthis wrists and once whenhe threatened suicide —but said such stays canlast just one to three days.

Plotts also had at leastfour gun arrests, alongwith assault and drugcharges, according to po-lice and court records. Andhe has been barred from atleast one residential shel-ter because of his violenthistory, Upper Darby po-lice Superintendent Mi-chael Chitwood said Fri-day.

“The case workers andthe doctors and the catch-ment centers — they knowwho violent individualsare, because they’re fre-quent fliers. And the sys-tem is not geared towardkeeping these peoplehoused somewhere untilthey start to be better. Soyou put whole communi-ties at risk,” Chitwoodsaid.

Cathy Nickel, a neigh-bor at Plotts’ last known

address, an apartmentcomplex in Upper Darby,saw a caseworker movehim out of the buildingabout a year ago. As hewas taken away in a van,she said, he yelled, “Youhaven’t heard the end ofme!”

Plotts had complained toSilverman previouslyabout the gun policy. Heshowed up nearly an hourearly Thursday for a regu-lar appointment with thedoctor, whom he had lastseen about six weeks ago.Silverman called the case-worker to join them, offi-cials said.

Colleagues heard argu-ing during the appoint-ment and saw Plotts aim-ing a gun at Silvermanwhen they peaked insidethe door. They quietlybacked out and called 911.The shooting soon began,just before 2:30 p.m.

The psychiatrist was re-cuperating at home Friday.His wife said he did notwant to discuss the shoot-ing, and she also declinedto comment.

Hospital policy bars any-one except on-duty law en-forcement officers fromcarrying weapons on cam-pus, a Mercy Health Sys-tem spokeswoman said.She otherwise declined todiscuss why Silvermanwas armed at work.

Gunman eyed others

A hospital worker views police activity near the scene of a shoot-ing at a wellness center attached to Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital inDarby, Pa., on Thursday.

Associated Press

ASSOCIATED PRESS

PHILADELPHIA — Twomen forced a woman intothe backseat of her sportutility vehicle at gunpoint,drove off but later lost con-trol and plowed into agroup of people on a cor-ner near a fruit stand onFriday, police said. Threechildren, all siblings, werekilled, and at least two oth-er people were criticallyinjured.

The woman was car-jacked about a mile awayfrom the scene of the acci-dent in the Tioga sectionof north Philadelphia,where the car jumped acurb, Homicide Capt.James Clark said.

“Something obviouslywent horribly wrong atthis intersection,” he said.

“The vehicle went out ofcontrol.”

The victims who diedwere 7- and 10-year-oldbrothers and their 15-year-old sister. They had beenselling fruit to raise moneyfor their church.

Police said one of theboys was pronounced deadat the scene and the girldied at a hospital. The oth-er boy died later.

Their mother was incritical condition.

The two men fled thescene on foot and are beingsought.

Employees at EducationWorks, an educational non-profit across the streetfrom the site of the wreck,told The Philadelphia In-quirer that they ran to tryto help the victims. Oneboy had no pulse and an-

other’s was barely there,said Karen Payne, whoruns a summer camp atthe nonprofit.

“I’m certified in first aidand CPR — my first in-stinct was to go to them,”she said. “But I couldn’thelp.”

Officials said a $40,000reward was being offered,$20,000 for each victim ofwhat were classified ashomicides. Police askedbusinesses with surveil-lance cameras in the areato provide footage andasked anyone with infor-mation in the case to comeforward.

The deaths and injurieswere a “terrible tragedy,”Mayor Michael Nuttertweeted, calling for prayersfor the injured and infor-mation on the carjackers.

3 die as car hits crowdASSOCIATED PRESS

MILWAUKEE — May-flies have begun emergingfrom the Mississippi Riverin swarms that show up onradar like thunderstorms,coat roads and leave be-hind slimy messes.They’ve been blamed for atleast one car crash thisweek in Wisconsin.

The flies hatch and thenspend a year burrowed in-to the sediment on the bot-tom of the river that servesas a border between Wis-consin and Minnesota.They emerge the next sum-mer to mate, lay eggs anddie, all in less than 48hours.

Mayflies, sensitive to ox-ygen levels and pollutantsin the river, serve as “sen-tinels” for scientists andothers concerned aboutwater quality, said Mark

Steingraeber, a U.S. Fishand Wildlife Service biolo-gist. Mayflies disappearedfrom a 70-mile area southof the Twin Cities in the1920s and didn’t reappearin significant numbersagain until 1978, whenwastewater treatment andothers actions taken underthe Clean Water Act beganto have an impact.

The National WeatherService captured a swarmon radar Sunday night asthe flies came out of theriver and drifted north.The radar system picks upenergy reflected off theflies, with the image’s in-tensity reflecting the densi-ty of the bugs.

A loop recorded Sundayshows yellow patches di-rectly over the river thatmorph into a green bandas the flies drift north. Thebugs become blue dots asthey disperse.

A second, smallerswarm recorded Thursdaynight starts as a greenband before exploding likefireworks into blue dots.

“Almost every night inthe summer, there’s somesense on the radar thatthere’s something comingoff the river,” said DanBaumgardt, science andoperations officer for theNational Weather Servicein La Crosse. “We don’tknow what kind of bug itis ... until we have peoplecalling or saying, ‘Oh mygosh, there’s mayflies all inthe La Crosse area.’”

The weather service typ-ically records severalswarms each year fromJune through August. Airand water temperatureshave been usually cool thisyear, helping explain whySunday’s emergence wasthe first big one this sum-mer, Steingraeber said.

Time for mayfliesSummer means it’s time for mayflies to swarm, mate, die

By M.L. JOHNSONASSOCIATED PRESS

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8A THE ZAPATA TIMES Mexico SATURDAY, JULY 26, 2014

MEXICO CITY — AMexican judge has or-dered six employees of agroup home raided amidcharges of abuse andfilthy conditions to standtrial, federal prosecutorssaid Thursday.

The five men and onewoman have been chargedwith kidnapping for alleg-edly refusing to releaseresidents and with humantrafficking for purported-ly forcing them to beg formoney. The six also faceorganized crime charges,the Attorney General’sOffice said in a statement.

The office has also or-dered the property thathoused the Great Familygroup home to be seized,

it said. Federal prosecutors

said this week that theywouldn’t charge thehome’s owner and foun-der, Rosa Verduzco,known as “Mama Rosa,”with any wrongdoing be-cause she is not mentallyfit.

The shelter was raidedby police on July 15 andofficers found about 600children and adults livingat the filthy, trash-strewncompound.

Residents of the sheltertold authorities that someemployees beat and rapedresidents, fed them rot-ting food or locked themin a tiny “punishment”room.

In an interview withUnivision television net-

work this week, Verduzco,79, denied that there wasa punishment cell or thatrotten food was served atthe shelter in Zamora, inthe western state of Mi-choacan. She said a small,barred room was an infir-mary used to hold sickresidents so they wouldn’twalk around.

Verduzco, once reveredfor her work in taking inorphan children for al-most 65 years, told the tel-evision network that inrecent years the shelterstarted housing childrenwith behavioral problemsor from broken homesand many stayed on afterreaching adulthood. Mostwere taken to the shelterby their parents or childwelfare agencies.

Six to stand trial ingroup home case

ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEXICO CITY — Mexi-co’s “circus wars” are heat-ing up, with a growingmovement to ban circusanimals meeting rising an-ger from circus workers.

There have been messag-es posted on social net-working sites urging peopleto attack circuses, Arman-do Cedeno, the head of thenation’s circus owners as-sociation, said at a demon-stration by circus perform-ers Tuesday.

“We have a lot of threatson Facebook, with environ-mentalists urging people togo burn down circuses,which is very worrisome,”Cedeno said as he oversawa protest in Mexico City’smain square at which cir-cus entertainers put on afree show with horses anddogs — the only animalsthey will be allowed to useunder a new city law ban-ning acts with lions, tigers,elephants and other “wild”animals.

Aguascalientes state leg-islator Gilberto Gutierrez,a member of Mexico’sGreen party, said violencehas already been inflictedby the circus side. He saidsecurity guards beat himand other animal rights ac-tivists in front of a circusin his state in late June.

“They broke two of myteeth ... it was a direct hit,”Gutierrez said. “It was anattack by the circus people,by the security guards theyemploy.”

The circus claimed theanimal activists were

blocking the entrance tothe circus in Aguasca-lientes, where it is still le-gal to perform with exoticanimals. Insults flew first,then fists and belts, the cir-cus said.

Gutierrez acknowledgedthe demonstrators wereposted in a narrow, four-foot strip of sidewalk at theentrance, but he insistednobody was prevented fromentering. At least two secu-rity personnel were de-tained in the case.

There have been mutual

accusations of illegal acts,including a giraffe set looseto gallop through a suburbof the northern city ofMonterrey. Video posted onsocial media sites showedsurprised motorists mak-ing quick maneuvers toavoid the galloping giraffeoutside the circus grounds,and the Barley Circus ac-cused animal rights activ-ists of opening the pen sothe giraffe could escape.

Barley Circus spokes-man Isaac Vertiz said: “Thegiraffe is always let outsidein the morning, and thekeeper went back inside fora moment to get food” forthe giraffe. “In the mean-time, within five minutes,somebody went in andopened the pen and let her

out.”Vertiz said someone also

spray-painted circus trail-ers and tried to break intocircus vehicles. He said hesuspects animal rights ac-tivists but conceded he hasno proof.

Gutierrez denied animalactivists have broken thelaw. “We will take this is-sue to its final consequenc-es, without breaking thelaw,” he said.

Animal rights activistssay they are fighting thekind of abuses that came to

light in March when envi-ronmental inspectors raid-ed a small, provincial cir-cus in the southern state ofYucatan and seized a blackbear that had its lower jawand upper teeth largelyripped out or cut off, appar-ently to keep it from biting.

On the other side, circuspeople say they are closelyregulated and inspected,and they feel the MexicoCity ban passed in Juneunfairly singles them out.

Mexico City and six ofMexico’s 32 states have nowbanned circus animals. Thecircus-animal ban does notapply to shows with dol-phins or bullfighting nordoes it prohibit the use ofanimals in Mexico’s tradi-tional rodeos.

A performer dressed in native American garb leaps on and off a running horse during a free publicshow to protest Mexico City’s ban on circus animals in Mexico City’s main square, the Zocalo. Mexico’s“circus wars” are heating up, with a movement to ban circus animals, other than horses and dogs.

Photo by Rebecca Blackwell | AP

Circuses caught up inanimal rights disputeActivists, environmentalists seek to ban circus animals;

threaten circuses, performers with violenceBy MARK STEVENSON

ASSOCIATED PRESS

There have been mutualaccusations of illegal acts,including a giraffe set loose togallop through Monterrey.

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the flow. U.S. immigrationand border patrol officialscreated new processing cen-ters, according to current of-ficials and others familiarwith the issue.

The agency responsible forthe children’s well-being wasthe Department of Healthand Human Services. Beforethe Homeland Security De-partment was created in 2002,the now-defunct Immigrationand Naturalization Servicehad overseen the handling ofminors caught at the border.

But under an agreementbrokered after immigrationrights groups pushed totransfer the responsibility toa non-law-enforcement agen-cy, the 2002 law gave the jobto HHS, starting the follow-ing year.

Furthermore, the 2008 anti-trafficking law requiredHomeland Security to turnover unaccompanied minorsfrom Central America toHHS within 72 hours. Thatagency would attempt toplace the children with fam-ily members in the UnitedStates — or in temporaryshelters — until they weresummoned to appear beforean immigration judge.

Numerous people familiarwith the operations said HHSstruggled to fulfill its role asthe number of children be-gan to rise in 2012. The agen-cy rushed to set up tempora-ry shelters at YMCAs,churches and other commu-nity centers.

In April 2012, a plan tohouse 200 children at unuseddormitories at Lackland AirForce Base in San Antoniodrew denunciations from im-migrant rights groups.

HHS officials defendedtheir performance in 2012and as the crisis has escalat-ed in recent months. KennethWolfe, a spokesman for HHS’Administration for Childrenand Families, said the agencyhas responded by expandingshelter capacity and reducingthe amount of time childrenspend in HHS-funded sheltersbefore being matched withfamilies or sponsors whiletheir cases are pending.

“We have made progress inboth areas, though signifi-cant work remains,” Wolfesaid.

By the time the team fromUTEP arrived at Fort Brownto examine the problem inthe summer of 2013, thechurn of the young immi-grants had far outpaced thegovernment’s capacity.

In its report, the UTEPteam wrote that borderagents were interested in set-ting up a “welcome center”overseen by HHS that wouldserve as a clearinghouse forthe minors, freeing patrolagents to monitor the border.

The number of minors ar-riving illegally from CentralAmerica shot from 3,933 in2011 to 20,805 in 2013. HHShad secured 5,000 beds acrossthe country — twice as manyas the previous year — butthat wasn’t enough. Immigra-tion courts were backlogged.Border Patrol stations wereoverrun. Federal officials es-timated that the total number

of minors would soar to60,000 in 2014.

And no one knew what todo with them all.

On Capitol Hill, lawmakersbegan hearing reports of thechaos from nongovernmentalorganizations and churcheswith operations in CentralAmerica. And they began ef-forts, in consultation with theadministration, to increasefederal funding to combat thecrisis.

In 2011, HHS’ Office of Ref-ugee Resettlement had a bud-get of $149 million to shelterand care for the foreign chil-dren. By 2013, it had grownto $376 million, and the Oba-ma administration requested$495 million in its fiscal 2014budget proposal.

Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard,D-Calif., said Democrats rec-ognized the urgency butfeared that if they raised toomuch of a public outcry, itwould create political blow-back for the Obama adminis-tration’s push to pass a com-prehensive immigration over-haul.

House Republicans had re-fused to move forward on abroader overhaul bill, whichwould include giving millionsof illegal immigrants achance to gain legal status,arguing that Obama hadfailed to secure the border.They pointed to the adminis-tration’s decision in 2011 toorder federal agents to em-ploy “prosecutorial discre-tion” while enforcing depor-tation laws, focusing on themost violent criminals.

That was followed in 2012by Obama’s announcementduring his reelection cam-paign that the administrationwould defer the deportationsof certain immigrantsbrought to the country ille-gally as children before June2007.

Democrats worried thatthe escalating border crisiswould help Republicansmake a case that the admin-istration’s policies had failed,Roybal-Allard said.

“That was always a con-cern of mine: How to addressthe issue in a way that didnot detract from the need forcomprehensive immigrationreform,” she said.

A person involved in theplanning said that inside theWhite House, national securi-ty staffers were concernedabout the growing influx ofchildren but that the influen-tial team of domestic policyadvisers was far more fo-cused on the legislative push.

“Was the White House toldthere were huge flows of Cen-tral Americans coming? Ofcourse they were told. A lotof times,” said the person,who spoke on the conditionof anonymity to discuss in-ternal deliberations. “Wasthere a general lack of inter-est and a focus on the legisla-tion? Yes, that’s where the fo-cus was.”

Muñoz said the administra-tion’s proposal to overhaulthe immigration systemwould have gone a long waytoward alleviating the bordercrisis and preventing futureproblems.

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partment of Family and ProtectiveServices, said that the system failswhen children are shuttled betweenso many homes. He said he’s push-ing for an agency “culture change”that would make foster care place-ments more permanent, saying nochild should reach adulthood whilestill bouncing around the system.

“I’ve met very, very few childrenthat aged out of the foster care sys-

tem, that were in the system forany length of time, that had a goodexperience,” said Specia who hasbeen in his post about 18 months.“If a child goes in at 2 and ages outat 18, we’ve failed miserably andthe child is going to have very, veryserious problems.”

Specia said that, today, 40 percentof Texas foster children have beenplaced with relatives, and that he’d

like to see that increase. “We have problems in some fos-

ter homes I will not deny that,”Specia said. “We have an awful lotof good providers out there doing agood job, and we have a lot of fosterparents out there doing a good job.”

Dukes, an Austin Democrat, re-sponded: “And we have a lot of folksthat are not, and that’s the reasonwe are having hearings.”

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JERUSALEM — U.S. Secretary ofState John Kerry said Friday thatmore work was needed to reach adeal between Israel and Hamas fora seven-day truce in the Gaza war.Israel’s defense minister warnedthat the military may soon broadenits ground operation “significantly.”

The tough statement by IsraeliDefense Minister Moshe Yaalon,coupled with Kerry’s inability tobroker even a temporary cease-fireafter a week of shuttling around theregion, signaled the fighting is like-ly to drag on, with more than 820Palestinians and 38 people in Israelkilled so far.

In a statement issued shortly af-ter Kerry spoke at a press confer-ence in Cairo, Yaalon’s office quot-ed him telling troops in the fieldthat “you need to be ready for thepossibility that very soon we willinstruct the military to significant-ly broaden the ground operation inGaza.”

“Hamas is paying a very heavyprice and will pay an even heavierprice,” Yaalon said. “At the end ofthe operation, Hamas will have tothink very hard if it is worth it totaunt us in the future.”

Israel has said a key objective ofits ground operation is to destroyHamas military tunnels under theGaza-Israel border — and Israelimedia have said the military wantsmore time to complete the mission.

Of 31 discovered so far, about halfhave been destroyed. The tunnels,used by Hamas in the past to sneakinto Israel, are seen as a strategicthreat against Israel.

For days, Kerry has been movingbetween the Egyptian capital, theWest Bank and Jerusalem and talk-ing to officials from Qatar, which isin contact with Hamas. But themost Kerry seemed to have won sofar was a willingness from IsraeliPrime Minister Benjamin Netanya-hu to consider a far less ambitious12-hour halt in fighting, proposedby U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon.

Netanyahu, Kerry said, “has in-dicated his willingness to do that asa good faith down payment to moveforward.”

Still, Kerry said that the partiesare closer than ever to an agree-ment for a seven-day “humanitar-ian” truce to start with the MuslimEid holiday on Monday, ending theholy month of Ramadan.

Speaking alongside the U.N. sec-retary-general and the Egyptian for-eign minister, Kerry insisted thatthere was a general agreement onthe “concept” of a truce but thatboth sides had concerns over de-tails of carrying it out.

“Gaps have been significantlynarrowed,” he said. “It can beachieved, if we work through someof the issues that are important for

the parties.”Gaza fighting continued along-

side the truce efforts. Israeli air-strikes hit more than 80 sites in Ga-za, while militants in the tiny Medi-terranean strip fired 50 rockets atIsrael, the army said. Among thesites hit in Gaza were 30 homes, in-cluding that of a leader of the Is-lamic Jihad group who was killedalong with his sons, Palestinian of-ficials said.

And unrest sparked by the con-flict intensified in the West Bank,where five Palestinians were killedduring protests against the Israelioperation in Gaza.

The U.S. top diplomat said thegoal of halting fighting for sevendays was to provide time to workout further talks to address eachside’s demands. He said some “ter-minology” on a truce’s frameworkstill needed work.

Hamas demands the release ofPalestinian prisoners in addition toan end to the 7-year-old borderblockade imposed by Israel andEgypt after the group seized Gazafrom the Western-backed govern-ment of Palestinian President Mah-moud Abbas.

Israeli TV reports said Israel’sSecurity Cabinet unanimously re-jected Kerry’s proposal in its cur-rent form, mainly because it wouldmean Israel has to cut short the ef-fort to destroy tunnels. But Kerrysaid he had not submitted a formalproposal to Israel for the Cabinet tovote on.

Israeli government officials werenot immediately available for com-ment.

The worst round of cross-borderfighting in more than five years haskilled 828 Palestinians and wound-ed more than 5,200, according toPalestinian health officials. TheU.N. says civilians make up three-fourths of the dead and a majority

of the wounded.In Israel, 38 people have been

killed since July 8, including 35 sol-diers, two Israeli civilians and aThai worker.

The army announced on Fridaythat an Israeli soldier whom Hamashad claimed to have captured earli-er this week had in fact died in bat-tle on that day. The declaration liftsfears of a soldier in Hamas custody— one of Israel’s worst-case scena-rios in any fight with the militants.

The army said it determined thatSgt. Oron Shaul was killed amongseven soldiers killed in a vehiclethat was hit by an anti-tank missilein Gaza on Sunday. The others inthe vehicle were confirmed deadsoon after the battle ended butShaul’s remains were not immedi-ately identified. Shaul is among thecount of 35 soldiers killed in thefighting.

As the Gaza fighting drags on,the West Bank is becoming increas-ingly restive.

Protests erupted Friday in thenorthern village of Hawara, nearthe city of Nablus, and the southernvillage of Beit Omar, near the cityof Hebron. Palestinian hospital offi-cials said three Palestinians werekilled in Beit Omar and two inHawara.

The mayor of Hawara, Mouin Id-meidi, said he and hundreds of oth-ers from the village participated ina protest after emerging from a lo-cal mosque after Friday prayers.

Hawara is located along a mainnorth-south thoroughfare that is al-so used by Israeli motorists. Themayor said an Israeli motoristslowed down as he passed themarch and fired at the group.

The mayor said four people werewounded and that one of them, a 19-year-old, died at Rafidiyeh Hospitalin Nablus of his injuries.

No deal yet for Gaza truceBy KARIN LAUB AND IAN DEITCH

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Israeli police officers detain a Palestinian man during clashes in the East Jerusalemneighborhood of Wadi Joz near Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday.

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GOP lawmakers said theywere attempting to unite be-hind a narrow package ofchanges including sendingNational Guard troops to theborder, increasing the numberof U.S. immigration judgesand changing a law so thatmigrant youths arriving bythe tens of thousands could besent home more quickly. Thepackage would cost less than$1 billion, several lawmakerssaid, far less than the $3.7 bil-lion Obama requested to dealwith the crisis.

A number of Republicansexiting a special meeting onthe issue in the Capitol saidthey had to act before leavingWashington late next week fortheir annual August recess.

“It would be a terrible mess-age; leave town in Augustwithout having done any-thing, knowing that it’s goingto create even more of a crisison the border,” said Rep. Char-lie Dent of Pennsylvania. “Do-ing nothing in my viewmeans that these children willbe sent from the border backto communities like mine.”

Yet some conservative law-makers remained skepticalabout taking any action. “Theacceptable spending level iszero,” said Rep. Louie Gohm-ert of Texas.

And with Senate Democratsopposed to policy changes toreturn the children quicklywithout judicial hearings, itlooked highly unlikely that adeal could be struck to send abill to Obama’s desk beforeAugust.

Friday’s White House meet-ing with the presidents ofGuatemala, Honduras and ElSalvador came as the admin-istration considered creatinga pilot program giving refugeestatus to young people fromHonduras. White House offi-cials said the plan would in-volve screening youths intheir home countries to deter-mine whether they qualify forrefugee status. The programwould be limited and wouldstart in Honduras but couldbe expanded to include otherCentral American countries.

White House spokesmanJosh Earnest said the pilotplan would be among the top-ics Obama discussed with hisvisitors. But he also said theprogram was meant to keepmore migrants from comingto the border rather than as a

way to address the thousandsof migrants already in the U.S.

He said the conversationswith the leaders would focuson how to deter CentralAmericans by convincingthem that if they came to theUnited states “they would notbe welcomed with open armsin this country.” He also saidthe leaders would discuss howto enhance law enforcementcooperation between the U.S.and countries in the region toimprove security, and how toensure that minors who arereturned to Central Americadon’t go back to the violentconditions they were trying toescape.

At the same time, a seniorObama adviser said Fridaythat the White House is tak-ing seriously the possibilitythat House Republicans couldinitiate impeachment proceed-ings against Obama if he actson his own later this year ona broader immigration mea-sure that could defer deporta-tions for immigrants whohave been inside the UnitedStates illegally for years.

White House adviser DanPfeiffer said that HouseSpeaker John Boehner’s effortto sue Obama over his use ofexecutive authority “hasopened the door for Republi-cans possibly considering im-peachment at some point inthe future.”

“I would not discount thatpossibility,” he said during a

breakfast with reporters. “Ithink that when the presidentacts on immigration reform itwill certainly up the likeli-hood that they would contem-plate impeachment at somepoint.”

Boehner has said he hasruled out impeachment, butconservative commentators,including former Republicanvice presidential candidate Sa-rah Palin, have called for Oba-ma to be impeached.

“It is telling and sad that asenior White House official isfocused on political games,rather than helping these kidsand securing the border,”Boehner spokesman MichaelSteel said.

Several House Republicanssaid there was some discus-sion in Friday’s meeting ofholding a vote, in concertwith action on the border, tooverturn an earlier Obama di-rective on immigration thatdeferred deportation for cer-tain immigrants brought hereillegally as children.

With some critics contend-ing that that Obama directiveand other presidential policiestriggered the crisis, the presi-dent has been eager to demon-strate an aggressive approachto reducing the flow of immi-grants and returning thosefound not to have a legitimateclaim to stay here. The U.S.has mounted a communica-tions campaign to informCentral American residents

that they won’t be allowed tostay in the U.S., and Obamasent a team to Texas thisweek to weigh the possibilityof dispatching the NationalGuard to the border.

More than 57,000 minorshave arrived since October,mostly from Honduras, Guate-mala and El Salvador. Thetrio of nations has becomeone of the most violent re-gions in the world in recentyears, with swaths of all threecountries under the control ofdrug traffickers and streetgangs that rob, rape and ex-tort ordinary citizens with im-punity.

In recent weeks, the num-ber of children being appre-hended daily has fallen byroughly half, but White Houseofficials said seasonal pat-terns or other factors unrelat-ed to the administration’s ef-forts may be responsible forsome of the decline.

Pfeiffer said Obama sup-ports changes in the 2008 lawthat would give the adminis-tration more authority to turnback Central American mi-grants at the border. But hesaid current proposals in Con-gress, including a bipartisanplan proposed by Texas Demo-cratic Rep. Henry Cuellar andTexas Republican Sen. JohnCornyn, do not meet WhiteHouse standards of deterringillegal migration while pro-tecting legitimate claims forasylum from border crossers.

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El Salvador President Salvador Sanchez Ceren, left, Guatemala President Otto Perez Molina, President BarackObama and Honduran President Juan Hernandez discuss Central American immigration Friday, in Washington.

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spot holding a fishing net.Perry termed the latest guard infusion a

“deter and refer” mission Monday; the troopswill deter criminal activity and, if they en-counter immigrants who have entered thecountry illegally, they will refer them to Bor-der Patrol.

Since mid-June, Texas already has beenpaying an additional $1.3 million per week toput more troopers and game wardens inSouth Texas. The National Guard deploy-ment is expected to cost $12 million permonth and they’ve been told to plan for ayear. The soldiers will join the more than3,000 Border Patrol agents already in the ar-ea, plus an unspecified number of state lawenforcement officers who’ve become nearlyas ubiquitous in recent weeks.

“We were deployed down here not to dealwith the federal immigration part of it,” DPSLt. Charlie Goble said. “We were deployeddown here to deal with the criminal elementthat comes along with it.”

So if DPS or the guardsmen encounter im-migrants — including children from CentralAmerica who’ve come in droves — they willcall Border Patrol, but they will target thesmugglers of drugs and people.

It is dangerous work. Already this week,two game wardens have been assaulted whileon patrol, Parks and Wildlife Capt. JamesDunks said. One on the river was hit in theside of the face with a rock. The other, pa-trolling the bank, had a 10-minute brawl witha human smuggler, and eventually arrested.

As those incidents suggest, Dunks saidsmugglers seem more likely to engage withlaw enforcement than they were in the past.Still, he said, their preference is to do theirwork out of sight.

“It’s a cat and mouse game,” Goble said.“We’ll counter what they’re doing and thenthey’ll turn right around and try to counterwhat we’re doing ... From the time we launchuntil the time we recover usually we’re beingwatched. We just continue changing our tac-tics right along with them.

“Our mere presence out here is the biggestdeterrence.”

Earlier he said, “We aren’t making thesearrests daily, but we are seeing a tremendousamount of criminal activity going on.”

In the two years since DPS gunboats ar-rived at the Rio Grande, they have not had touse deadly force.

“We were encouraged to make the intimi-dation factor of these boats overwhelming,”Goble said.

But it’s not clear whether they have de-terred criminal activity on a waterway wherethey can’t possibly be everywhere at once.

“If you look at the straightaway we’re in,half to three-quarters of a mile straightaway,regardless of what speed we’re travelling, re-gardless of what speed we’re capable of trav-elling, there is going to be some time to coverthat distance,” Goble said. “Just as we camearound the corner a while ago they spottedus. They can very rapidly get personnel and/or product back to their bank, back to safety.”

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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — FrankThomas was always driven to excel,and that sure served him well.

“I was never that blue-chip pros-pect,” he said. “I had to outwork myopponents.”

Hard to imagine now that Thomaswas ever anything except a huge star.

For Thomas, the 6-foot-5, 240-poundformer Chicago White Sox sluggerknown as the Big Hurt, life has comefull circle — from awe-struck rookie in1990 to baseball royalty.

Thomas was elected in January tothe Hall of Fame, along with pitchersGreg Maddux and Tom Glavine. Alsoto be inducted Sunday are managersJoe Torre, Tony La Russa and BobbyCox, who were selected in December.

“This is the top 1 percent in all ofbaseball that gets in the Hall of Fame,”said Thomas, the first player elected tothe Hall of Fame who spent more thanhalf of his time as a designated hitter.“As a kid, the big dream

See HALL OF FAME PAGE 2B

MLB: HALL OF FAME

Greg Maddux, one of the best pitchers of hisgeneration, won four straight Cy Youngawards from 1992-95. The first award camewith the Cubs, while the latter three came asa member of the Braves.

Photo by Erik S. Lesser | AP

Baseball’sClass of

2014Maddux, Glavine, Thomas

to be inducted SundayASSOCIATED PRESS

HOUSTON — Andre Johnson hadsome issues with the Houston Texans.

In the end, they weren’t seriousenough to keep the star receiver off thefield.

Johnson was all smiles when he re-ported to camp on time Friday. He’slooking to move past an offseasonwhere he skipped workouts and a man-datory minicamp after wondering inMay whether Houston was “still theplace for me.”

“I love playing this game of football,”Johnson said Friday. “I’m going to playfootball and ... I don’t plan on walkingaway from this.”

He wouldn’t divulge what exactly wassaid or done to get him to return to theteam. But said he’s excited to be backwith his teammates and that it’s hisplan to finish his career with the Tex-ans.

His teammates shared his enthusi-asm and said he received a standingovation and was greeted with a slowclap when he entered a meeting on Fri-day morning.

“He’s a huge part of our team,” lefttackle Duane Brown said. “He’s beenmy teammate my whole time here andis a guy that I really look up to as a pro-fessional and it was good to have him inthe building.”

The 33-year-old Johnson, whose 1,407yards receiving in 2013 ranked secondin the AFC, rejoins a team that is look-ing to bounce back from a disastrous 2-14 season. He’s the longest-tenured Tex-an after joining the franchise in its sec-ond season. In that time he’s played onjust three teams with winning records,fueling his frustration.

“I’ve been here 12 years. There’s beena lot of things that happened,” he said.“I’ve never really voiced my opinion onthem. I think at times there comes atime when you don’t agree with some-thing, things need to be said. That’spretty much what it was.”

He said his unhappiness stemmedfrom playing here so long and feeling

that his opinions were not being heard. “It gets frustrating,” he said. “After

what happened last year, we went 2-14and things like that, it wasn’t only frus-trating for me, I understand it was frus-trating for everybody.”

He knows some fans were angry athim for skipping Houston’s offseasonwork, but said the people he came intocontact with were overwhelmingly sup-portive.

“It was never nothing negative,” hesaid. “I think if anybody had something

negative, it was behind my back. It wasnothing said to my face. It was a lot ofpositive things. People telling me thatthey’re praying for me. Things like that.They understand the way I felt.”

Johnson has been the one constanton this young franchise through threedifferent coaching regimes, severalquarterback changes and countlessplayer moves. Houston’s first two No. 1overall draft picks David Carr and Ma-

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE: HOUSTON TEXANS

Johnson returns

After skipping the team’s previous offseason activities, veteran wide receiver Andre Johnson re-ceived a standing ovation when he walked into a training camp meeting on Friday morning.

File photo by Chris O’Meara | AP

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Veteran Texansreceiver ready

to playBy KRISTIE RIEKENASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — A 24-hourchannel devoted solely to profootball? On satellite radio?

What was Sirius thinking?Not even the people launch-

ing the station could be surewhere it was headed. And adecade later, their dedicated lis-teners range from Robert Kraftto Mike Shanahan to Sean Pay-ton. And from players on all 32teams to truck drivers traveling

the length and width of the na-tion.

“We were ahead of everybo-dy,” says Gil Brandt, the formerCowboys personnel director,current NFL draft consultant —and co-host of the very first pro-gram on Sirius NFL Radio onAug. 2, 2004. “I marvel at it. I gointo the grocery store or barbershop now, and even women aretelling me, ’You said this andthis and this’ on the air.

NFL RADIO

See SIRIUS PAGE 2B

Gil Brandt was the co-host of the first program on Sirius NFL Radio a decadeago, and the channel has since built a large and influential audience.

File photo by Chris O’Meara | AP

24-hour NFL radioa massive success

By BARRY WILNERASSOCIATED PRESS

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — RobGronkowski ran short routes,caught passes and jogged back tothe line of scrimmage.

He didn’t cut sharply, runhard at defensive backs or parti-cipate in 11-on-11 drills.

The oft-injured tight end forthe New England Patriots ispracticing at training camp butnot ready for full activity as hecontinues his recovery fromknee surgery. He’s not even surehe’ll play in the season openerSept. 7.

“I’m preparing myself to mymax ability right now for thefirst regular game,” Gronkowskisaid, dripping with sweat afterFriday’s workout. “I really can’tsay anything from here on outbecause it’s far away.”

The signs of his surgical histo-ry are obvious — a heavy braceon his left arm, another brace onhis right knee.

“I’m used to the arm bracenow. It’s been a year now wear-ing that so it’s second hand nowhaving that thing on,” Gronkow-ski said. “The knee brace juststarted, but today’s the secondday out there and I’m alreadygetting comfortable with every-thing.

“It’s great to be out there withmy teammates again, being inthe huddle, catching balls from

Tom Brady. It’s a dream cometrue again. It feels like it got tak-en away and now I feel like I gotit back so it’s awesome.”

Injuries have derailed a procareer that started with signifi-

cant production. Gronkowski missed his final

college season at Arizona follow-ing back surgery but, as a roo-

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Gronk excited to take field

Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski had a record-setting sophomore campaign in2011, but injuries have derailed his production over the last two seasons.

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rio Williams have comeand gone, but Johnson hasremained. He’s the onlyplayer on the team to haveendured both of the team’s2-14 seasons after alsoplaying on the 2005 squadthat posted the franchise-worst mark.

After spending his ca-reer here, he knew thiswas where he needed to bedespite his reservationsabout enduring what someview as another rebuildingseason.

“This is my home now,”he said. “I’ve been here forso long. I was in Miamimy whole life and now I’vebeen here for going on 12years. This is my homeaway from home. I thinkI’ve I built a great founda-tion here and built a greatrelationship with thefans.”

Johnson has alwaysbeen known as a hardworker and said he’ll dowhatever it takes to learncoach Bill O’Brien’s newoffense. He knows it will

be a challenge after mis-sing so much time, buthe’s looking forward to it.

He’ll have a new quar-terback this season afterthe Texans signed veteranfree agent Ryan Fitzpa-trick in the offseason afterMatt Schaub was traded toOakland.

Fitzpatrick is eager towork with Johnson.

“He’s a guy that’s well-respected, not just herebut around the league,”Fitzpatrick said. “Anytimeyou have somebody likethat on your team it’s agreat thing and he’ll be agreat player like he alwayshas (been) and a greatleader for us this year.”

Several other Texansmet with reporters afterJohnson did on Friday, butthis year’s top overall draftpick outside linebacker Ja-deveon Clowney was notamong them. His status forthe first day of camp isstill unclear as he recoversfrom surgery to repair asports hernia.

TEXANS Continued from Page 1B

Andre Johnson wouldn’t explain exactly why he decided to rejointhe team, but said he plans to close his career with the Texans.

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kie in 2010, he had 42 catches for546 yards and 10 touchdowns.The next season he set NFL re-cords for tight ends with 1,327yards receiving, 17 touchdownreceptions and 18 total touch-downs. He also caught 90 passesand was an outstanding blocker.

In 2012, he started strong be-fore breaking his left forearm inthe 11th game while blocking foran extra point.

Since then, he’s missed 17 ofthe Patriots next 26 games, in-cluding the playoffs. And he wason the weekly injury report orthe injured reserve list for eachof the past 33 games.

“It’s been a lot, but I’m puttingthat all in my past now and just

grinding right now, going to getmy knee 100 percent ready togo,” Gronkowski said. “I’m justnot going to dwell on the past.”

Even without setbacks, he’snot likely to be dominant rightaway, especially if he doesn’tplay preseason games or takeslimited contact in practices.

Patriots cornerback DarrelleRevis played all 16 games forTampa Bay last season after re-covering from knee surgery, but“it was tough. I wasn’t where Ineeded to be,” he said.

“They say it takes a year and ahalf or two” to return to pre-in-jury condition, Revis said. “Ithink I’m at a point now whereI’m there. This offseason was a

full offseason for me where I canjust focus on working out in-stead of doing the rehab (as)soon as you get the injury. So I’mfine, man. Like I said, I’m in thebest shape I’ve been in my ca-reer.”

He had more time to recoverthan Gronkowski but said “ev-erybody goes through it differ-ently.”

Revis tore his left ACL onSept. 23, 2012, and underwentsurgery Oct. 16. Gronkowski torethe ACL and MCL in his rightknee last Dec. 8 and had his op-eration on Jan. 9.

“I’m just doing individualdrills, routes out there and ev-erything, getting my condition-

ing up, keeping the leg strength-ening, getting my body inshape,” Gronkowski said. “Allthat good stuff.”

He began last season on thesideline after four surgeries onhis left forearm and a back oper-ation on June 18.

The Patriots kept him off theregular-season physically unableto perform list, which wouldhave required him to miss thefirst six games. The team hopedhe’d be back sooner, but Gron-kowski and his advisers werecautious. He finally returned forthe seventh game.

“I’m putting that one in thepast,” he said. “We’re all on thesame page right now — the

team, organization, myself, thetrainers, the doctors.”

Were they on different pageslast year?

“No. Not really,” Gronkowskisaid. “I guess it seemed like thatout there, but in the organiza-tion we were all on the samepage and this year we’re all onthe same page again, so it’s go-ing well.”

He expects it to keep gettingbetter.

“I definitely feel like I can goback out there right where I leftand pick it right back up,” Gron-kowski said. “It was boring thisyear. I was rehabbing every day. Iwas miserable. Hopefully, thatnever happens again.”

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“The allure is amazing.”The NFL’s allure seems limitless,

and Channel 88 on SiriusXM — thecompanies merged in 2008 — hasbuilt its impressive resume on it.When Steve Cohen, the current se-nior vice president of sports pro-gramming, and Brandt first went onthe air 10 years ago, Sirius had500,000 subscribers. A year later, an-other 1 million had signed up. By2008, SiriusXM had 18.5 million sub-scribers.

Now, that number has reached 26million.

NFL Radio isn’t responsible for allof that, not by a long shot with How-ard Stern and Oprah Winfrey amongSiriusXM personalities. But it’samong satellite radio’s leaders in call-er participation and, within the NFLitself, it’s become must listening.

“SiriusXM NFL Radio attracts fansof all ages with their insight fromformer players and coaches and someof the most respected NFL insiders inthe industry,” Patriots owner Kraftsays. “I am a regular listener. I try tolisten to financial reporting and time-ly global news when I can, but mostoften, I tune in to ... Channel 88. Itgives me the pulse of what’s going onin my favorite sport seven days aweek, 365 days a year.”

Cohen actually consulted withKraft before taking on the challengeof building the channel. Cohen’s vi-sion for it was to have professionalbroadcasters team with former NFLplayers or executives.

“Here was the hardest thing: hir-ing people,” Cohen says. “Theycouldn’t pronounce the name andhadn’t heard of this company.”

Yet he attracted Hall of Fame run-ning back John Riggins and futureHall of Famers Shannon Sharpe andCris Carter to become hosts, al-though they no longer are on thechannel. Brandt brought considera-ble cachet because of his wealth of in-side knowledge and endless array ofanecdotes.

Former Jets personnel director PatKirwan also signed up immediately,and he’s become perhaps the station’smost popular voice because of his

skill at explaining everything fromthe intricacies of the zone blitz to thedynamics of the salary cap.

“When I first started, I had no ra-dio experience, had done some TV,but I knew enough about football totalk,” says Kirwan, who has part-nered with former NFL players TimRyan and, now, Jim Miller. “And Ihad a lot of notions from TV that itwas not addressing the needs of thefans who wanted to grow. The foot-ball guy felt there has been morethan what these announcers are tell-ing us, because TV appeals to a gen-eral audience.”

NFL Radio wanted to appeal to ev-eryone who follows the sport. It cameup with some unique ways to do so.

Not only has SiriusXM been broad-casting all regular-season and playoffgames live throughout its deal withthe league, which runs through 2015,but Channel 88 has brought listenerslive to the combine, the draft, and toeach of the 32 training camps duringthe summer.

The camp trips are among the fa-vorite endeavors for NFL Radio’sstaff (55 and counting), although theygot off to a rocky start.

“The training camp tour startedout small, three cities, and soon it be-came every team every summer,”says Adam Schein, Cohen’s first hire— at age 26. “You’d fly from Seattle toDenver to the Redskins’ camp inthree days. Fly to Chicago and thendrive to Bourbonnais, Illinois, or toTerre Haute, Indiana, and Nashville,and Georgetown, Kentucky. You go toSaints camp in Jackson, Mississippi,and the humidity smacks you rightin the face.

“We were not staying at the RitzCarlton, either, but that was some-thing that made it so great — it in-creased the bonding with the guys.”

And with the audience. So much sothat, at one point, Schein and Rigginshad to cut a conversation short be-cause the caller’s wife had gone intolabor.

A little while later, they found outthe woman had twins — and namedthem Adam and John.

Brandt has kept a log of each caller

during his 10 years on the air, includ-ing where they are from. On a recentJune evening, his four-hour programwith co-host Alex Marvez featurednonstop full telephone lines. Therewere 37 callers from 19 states, 16 ofthem first-time callers.

“That is not even our best. Onenight we had 24 first-time callers,”Brandt recalls.

Many of those callers are truckers,and they’ve developed something of aSiriusXM NFL Radio cult, whetherlistening to 2002 NFL MVP Rich Gan-non or Hall of Famer James Lofton.Not only do they phone in regularlyas they drive the highways of Amer-ica, but they now make a pilgrimageto Mobile, Alabama, in late Januaryto the Senior Bowl.

Kirwan throws a bash for themthere, even giving out awards, andconducts impromptu class sessionson football, recruiting assistantcoaches on hand for the game to helpout.

Cohen offers a reminder that thereare far more days on the calendarwithout any pro football games. Yet,as his boss notes, the thirst for theNFL must be quenched.

“Having every NFL game is a verysignificant part of what we offer,”says SiriusXM President Scott Green-stein, “but I can’t emphasize enoughhow important it is having SiriusXMNFL Radio on the air all day, everyday, 12 months a year, feeding the ap-petite of NFL fans.”

And feeding the hunger of folks inthe league, too.

Scott Pioli worked in the front of-fices of the Patriots and Chiefs andnow is assistant general manager inAtlanta. In between NFL gigs, he hadthe chance to be an analyst on thestation.

He learned a lot being behind themicrophone.

“Usually when you are listening tothe radio, you are alone, so the hostsbecome companions,” Pioli says.“Now I sat on the other side and gotthe chance to see how the people be-hind the microphone actually culti-vate relationships with people outthere in radio land, and it is cool.”

SIRIUS Continued from Page 1B

is being a professional. But tomake it to the Hall of Fame?Come on, you’ve got to pinchyourself. I’m very fortunate ithappened for me, especially firstballot.”

Thomas won AL MVP awardsin 1993 and 1994 and finished his19-year career with a .301 battingaverage, 521 homers and 1,704RBIs.

He also won the 1997 AL bat-ting title and helped show that inmore recent times a power hittercould also be selective at theplate.

Thomas played 16 years for theWhite Sox and established him-self as the best hitter in franchisehistory. He’s the only player inmajor league history to log sevenstraight seasons with a .300 aver-age, 20 homers, 100 RBIs and 100walks.

Heady territory for a guy whodidn’t take baseball seriously un-til he was 12 and many thoughtwould end up as a star tight endin the NFL because of the devas-tating blocks he delivered.

“Hitting was something I tookvery serious. The way I swungthe bat at times, you’d think Iwas 5-foot-9 and 160 pounds,” saidThomas, who decided to focussolely on baseball as a sopho-more at Auburn. “But I caredabout getting hits and scoringruns. A lot of people didn’t knowthat about my game. Yes, I hit alot of home runs, drove in a lot ofruns, but there were many daysthat I was just content gettingsingles and getting on base andletting the other guys drive mein.”

Just as impressive: Thomas,Babe Ruth, Mel Ott, and Ted Wil-liams, are the only players in ma-

jor league history to retire with acareer batting average of at least.300, 500 home runs, 1,500 RBIs,1,000 runs scored, and 1,500walks.

The effect of the Steroids Erawas front and center at lastyear’s induction ceremony. The2013 class consisted of Jacob Rup-pert, umpire Hank O’Day andcatcher “Deacon” White — allthree had been dead for morethan 70 years — and was pickedby a select 16-member committee.

It marked just the second timein 42 years that members of theBaseball Writers’ Association ofAmerica failed to elect anyone.

Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, andRoger Clemens — all linked tosteroids — didn’t even come closein their first year of eligibility.

That was not lost on Thomas.“I played in an era that people

are going to be thinking aboutfor a long time,” said Thomas,who was plagued by injuries inhis later years. “I’m proud that Istuck to my guns and did thingsthe right way, the proper way.”

Induction day probably willseem like a reunion of sorts forMaddux, Glavine, and Cox, whowere mainstays together on theAtlanta Braves for a decade.

“To have the opportunity to go

in with two guys that were ateammate and a manager for along time, guys that were such abig part of my career but alsohelped make me a better player,that’s a great opportunity,” Gla-vine said. “Every once in a while,I’ll have some moments whereit’s hard to get my brain aroundwhat’s going on.”

Maddux was elected by anoverwhelming margin, receiving97.2 percent of the votes from theBBWAA. He won 355 games, fourstraight Cy Young Awards and arecord 18 Gold Gloves. Glavine,who was selected by nearly 92percent of the voters, had 305

wins and two Cy Young Awards.Both Maddux and Glavine re-

lied on pinpoint control to get thejob done, changing speed and lo-cation on their pitches to keephitters guessing.

Maddux won Cy Youngs from1992-95 (Randy Johnson is the on-ly other pitcher to win fourstraight), completing his impres-sive run with two remarkableyears. During the strike-short-ened 1994 season, Maddux went16-6 with a career-best 1.56 ERA— the cumulative NL ERA was4.21 — and the next year finished19-2 with a 1.63 ERA.

Glavine was on the moundwhen the Braves won Game 6 toclinch the 1995 World Series andgive the city of Atlanta its lonemajor sports title. The leftypitched one-hit ball over eight in-nings in a 1-0 victory over Cleve-land.

“I competed against thoseguys. They knew how to pitch,”said Thomas, picked on nearly 84percent of ballots. “They werewarriors.”

Considering the size of this in-duction class — it equals those of1971, 1955 and 1953 as the largestever — and the imposing creden-tials of the inductees, officials areexpecting a very large crowd asthe Hall of Fame continues thecelebration of its 75th anniver-sary.

Heck, they’ll need extra seatsjust for Torre’s entourage.

“I’m looking forward to a hugeturnout,” said Thomas, who’sfrom Georgia. “I’m so happy andproud. To go in with the threemost iconic managers of mytime, it doesn’t get any betterthan that, to be a part of thatgroup.”

HALL OF FAME Continued from Page 1B

From left to right, Tom Glavine, Frank Thomas and Greg Maddux will become the newest members of Cooperstown’s mostexclusive club this weekend. Maddux and Glavine were once teammates in the mid-1990s and early 2000s.

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