A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a US administration's decision to suspend a program that gives legal status to young immigrants who entered the country illegally when they were children, while Trump and congressional deputies discussed a more comprehensive immigration scheme that could grant citizenship to millions of migrants.
The verdict came hours after US President Donald Trump headed a high-level meeting in the White House that included bipartisan and democratic bidders to discuss the file, known as the Dreamers.
San Francisco federal judge William Alcop issued his ruling on Tuesday night, ordering Donald Trump's administration to reinstate the countrywide "Dhaka" program under the same conditions as before it was suspended on Sept. 5, 2017.
The 49-page judgment said the government was "obliged to wait for a final ruling to keep the DHA + program nationwide at the same conditions as it was in place before it was suspended."
The Justice Department's position that the program was illegal was based on a "wrong legal premise," the judge said.
Unless the judgment is overturned by a higher judicial body, former beneficiaries of the program are again entitled to apply for renewal of their stay.
The program, approved by the administration of former President Barack Obama in 2012, protects these young people from deportation but Trump announced in September that it would be repealed but delayed implementation of the resolution to give Congress a six-month deadline until March to prepare a lasting solution.
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The government was sued on the grounds that the termination of the program was arbitrary and without due process of law.
Judge Alesop said on Tuesday he doubted the government's claim that the "Dhaka" program was illegal.
On Tuesday, Trump chaired a White House meeting to persuade Republicans and Democrats to compromise on the fate of the "dreamers".
He also said he was open to an integrated immigration reform to address the fate of millions of unregistered immigrants living in the shadows as long as Democrats wanted to support a broader security program for the border, including the controversial border wall with Mexico.
"It should be a sympathetic bill," Trump said, referring to a procedure under study and negotiation that would protect hundreds of thousands of dreamers from deportation.
"But it must be a bill that will enable us to secure the borders, drugs are flowing to our country at a record rate," he said, calling on MPs to "put the country ahead of the party" and reach a quick solution.
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Trump presided over a single meeting of about 25 deputies from the Senate and House of Representatives, bypassing partisan differences between Republicans and Democrats, and allowed reporters to attend a rare meeting for about an hour.
Trump said he would "bear the consequences" politically if MPs agreed on a more comprehensive move that could provide a means of granting citizenship to the 11 million unregistered refugees living in the United States.
"You are not far from a comprehensive immigration reform," Trump told Sen. Lindsay Graham. "You have created the opportunity, Mr. President, and you have to complete the agreement."
Trump's current position seems to be in stark contrast to his campaign positions in 2016, when he focused heavily on border security and immigration restriction, angering many of his supporters who oppose the possibility of legal status for millions of unregistered migrants.
The Israeli army announced on Wednesday the launch of intensive search operations and the construction of roadblocks in the northern West Bank to track down two Palestinian militants who killed a settler.
Rabbi Raziel Shibah was shot dead Tuesday evening as he was driving near the settlement of Havat Gilad, where he lives. Israeli army radio reported that 22 bullets had been found on his car.
"Security forces, with the support of special forces, are carrying out operations in the area of attack," the military said in a statement.
Palestinians inside and outside the neighboring villages of Nablus were subjected to "security checks," the statement said.
Palestinian security sources said no arrests had been made so far and Israeli settlers threw stones at Palestinian vehicles at the scene of the attack.
Before he was taken to hospital, the man managed to make a phone call, state radio said. "I was shot near the edges of Gail," he said, before collapsing.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin confirmed in a statement that "the security forces will track down the perpetrators and bring them to justice."
Housing Minister Yoav Galant said in an interview with Army Radio that "the houses of terrorists who kill Israelis in cold blood and expel their families to Syria are being destroyed."
Commenting on the attack, he said a spokesman for the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, in a brief statement published by the official website of the Brigades, "the Nablus operation was the first response my fire to remind the leaders of the enemy and behind that what Tkhcouna is coming and that the West Ayash and Indians will remain a dagger in Khasrtkm."
For its part, Hamas said in a statement that it "blessed the heroic operation of Nablus, which comes as a result of violations of the Zionist occupation and crimes against our people in the West Bank and Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque."
Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967 and has built settlements that the international community considers illegal.
Some 400,000 Israelis live in illegal settlements in the West Bank, which Israel captured 50 years ago.
Some 200,000 Israelis live in East Jerusalem, annexed by Israel in 1980, a move not recognized by the international community.
On December 6, US President Donald Trump decided to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and ordered the transfer of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, sparking condemnation in the Arab and Muslim worlds and the international community.
Since then, 14 Palestinians and Israelis have been killed in clashes with the Israeli army along the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip or Israeli air strikes.
The allies of US President Donald Trump defended him in the face of questioning the book "Fire and Wrath: Inside the White House of Trump" by his ability to rule. Republicans close to Trump at the same time attacked the media coverage of the book and the president. For his part, Trump renewed his attack on the book and its author, Michael Wolf, saying it was "a false book for a writer who is completely lacking credibility."
US President Donald Trump's allies scrambled to defend him after a book on Friday questioned Trump's eligibility for his post, saying he was a genius in politics and Trump renewed his attack on the White House book.
The White House is working hard to counter the negative image of Trump's journalist Michael Wolf in his book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," which was published on Friday and contains many details about the Republican administration .
Trump said on Twitter on Sunday morning that the book, which had the highest sales on Amazon after the release of "a false book of the author is completely lost credibility," after Wolf portrayed him as an indifferent and unbalanced man shows signs of actual loss of memory.
On Saturday, the US president responded to Wolf's suggestion that Trump was unbalanced, certainly as "a very balanced genius".
Former Trump adviser Steve Panone on Sunday expressed "regret" for his comments to the author and criticized the president's son during his campaign in 2016.
Banon, a former confidant of Trump and the White House strategist before his dismissal in the summer of 2017, sparked controversy last week after a transcript of the book saying Donald Trump Jr committed "treachery" and "not patriotly" when he met a Russian lawyer during the campaign.
This meeting is one of the main areas of investigation by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller about possible collusion between Trump and Russia to influence the November 2016 elections.
"Donald Trump is a patriot and a good man," Banon said Sunday. "He has consistently supported his father and his program, which has helped change our country."
Bannon's comments in the book angered the US president, who accused his former adviser of "losing his temper."
One of the writers ridiculed Trump's political adviser Steven Miller, insisting that the president was indeed "a genius in politics" during an interview with CNN.
Miller stressed that Wolf was "a nonsense writer for a nonsense book ... just a pile of garbage." He also targeted Banon as "hateful" and "far from reality".
Wolf defended his job on Sunday and told NBC that he had not broken any agreement not to publish information in the book, but it was not likely that Trump would have considered the total three hours he confirmed signing with him as interviews.
He also spoke of a major concern in the White House that Trump might be disqualified from office for incompetence, allowing the amendment of the 25 Constitution even with difficulty.
Wolf said White House aides repeated almost daily, "We have not yet reached the level of the 25 amendment."
"Will not work"
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nicky Hailey rejected the idea and assured ABC television that no one in the White House "questioned the president's balance" and hinted that Wolf was capable of "lying for money and power."
But Wolf insisted that he did not start the book project with a preconceived bias or an agenda against Trump.
"It would have been a pleasure if I had written an opposite story here that Donald Trump, this unexpected president, will eventually succeed, but the story is not really and will not work," he said.
Meanwhile, CIA director Mike Pompeo insisted in an interview on Fox News on Sunday that Wolf's picture of Trump was "purely illusory."
Pompeo denied that President Lampalia was incapable of dealing with complex political files, stressing that he "is committed to understanding the complexities and poses difficult questions to our team in the CIA," pointing out that he is a "thirsty consumer" of the agency's information.
He added that Trump was "completely" and that it was "ridiculous" to suggest otherwise.
"Hysterical coverage"
But in a possible sign of the White House's sensitivity to the book, Miller made a scathing attack during an unusually intense debate with CNN's Jake Taber.
When Taper tried to question Miller about his work with Bannon, the interview turned into an exchange of boycotts and accusations. Miller described his host as "arrogant" and "malicious" and accused CNN of "covering hysterical negative anti-Trump."
Wolff's book was not tolerant of Miller himself, saying the latter was "supposed to be the thinker of the team but very ignorant, he was supposed to be an expert in communication, but almost everyone went."
However, Miller's offensive performance in the interview was well received by Trump, who commented on the joking "Jake Taber" of the "CNN" false news just destroyed in his interview with Steven Miller of the Trump administration. .
The report published by The New York Times last Saturday that one of its journalists, David Kirkpatrick, on the sound recordings leaked from Egypt, a big debate in the Egyptian arena of government and media. The alleged leaks were telephone calls between an Egyptian intelligence officer and a group of Egyptian media and technical figures to give them guidance to convince the Egyptian people of the US president's decision to move his country's embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Reactions from inside and outside Egypt echoed the report published by American journalist David Kirkpatrick in The New York Times on Saturday January 6.
The American newspaper claimed in the report that it received audio recordings between an Egyptian intelligence officer named Ashraf al-Khouli and four Egyptian media and artistic figures (represented by Yousra, journalist Mufeed Fawzi and the talk show coordinators Azmi Mujahid and Said Hassassin). The officer urges these figures to promote US President Donald Rumsfeld's decision Trump on the recognition of the city of Jerusalem, including the eastern part of the occupied capital of the State of Israel as a fait accompli and that the Palestinians accept the city of Ramallah as the capital of the Palestinian state.
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has denounced the American decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and stressed that it rejects any consequences and is contrary to the resolutions of international legitimacy, and will not change the legal status of the city of East Jerusalem As being under occupation.
The New York Times has generated considerable controversy in the Egyptian and international media and on the means of social communication between supporters and opponents of what audio recordings contain.
In the Egyptian camp, the publication of the Muslim Brotherhood's "McMullen" channel for the same sound recordings, which the American newspaper did not do, was a major factor in the official government response and the accusations of Egyptian journalists by American journalist David Kirkpatrick. The Muslim Brotherhood, whom the Egyptian authorities regard as a "terrorist organization".
Al-Jazeera, which was accused by the Egyptian regime of sympathizing with the Muslim Brotherhood, was aired on Al-Jazeera by Al-Jazeera.
Two days after the report was issued and the uproar surrounding it in Egypt, there was no reaction from the American newspaper, and no amendment to the information was published. This means that the New York Times is sticking to the report and has no intention of apologizing or retracting it.
Egyptian reactions
The first official reaction came from the State Information Service of the Egyptian presidency in a statement issued on Saturday evening, January 6, refuting what the New York Times considered the newspaper's claims to be inappropriate for its name and prestige in the world of journalism. Diaa Rashwan, the chairman of the board, described the report of the American newspaper as "lying" in an interview with Al-Hayat Al-Youm on the Egyptian TV channel of the same name and affiliated with the regime, stressing that there was no Egyptian intelligence officer with this name. To respond to the report of the newspaper, and that the body is waiting for the reaction of the newspaper on Sunday, the publication of a correction to the report.
The four figures mentioned in the report vow to prosecute
Meanwhile, the media, whose names were mentioned in the report, lied to this matter and denied their connection to this recording completely and threatened the American newspaper with prosecution.
She denied the knowledge of the intelligence officer, and confirmed in contact with the State Information Service, quoted by the Egyptian media, she did not discuss with anyone about the subject of Jerusalem at all, and did not indicate any information on political topics, but did not exist in Egypt at that time.
Azmi Mujahid denied the authenticity of the recording and accused the American newspaper of "fabrication." Mujahid said in a televised speech: "I do not have any records on my patriotism ... if the New York Times had any recordings to look forward to ... The New York Times director, And tries to abuse them through reports claiming to restrict the freedom of the press. " It is noteworthy that the American newspaper has indicated in its report that Azmi Mujahid has confirmed the validity of registration.
"I do not know an intelligence officer by this name, I know my frankness, my history is well known, I do not accept directions from anyone, the report has big question marks, and I publish these," said the famous Egyptian media analyst Mofid Fawzi. Slander at this time has its understandable purposes, especially the questioning of the institutions of the national state, and an attempt to undermine confidence in the media.
Egyptian media
Egyptian media outlets have attacked the New York Times, and Egyptian media analyst Amr Adib wondered how the leaked recordings from the New York Times reached Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated television channels in a clear reference to cooperation between the American journalist and journalists belonging to the banned group in Egypt.
While journalist Mahmoud Bakri, editor of the Egyptian newspaper "Al-Obeb", said that the report of the American newspaper aims to distort the image of Egypt and that there is an outline practiced by some Western media in cooperation with members of the Muslim Brotherhood from outside Egypt.
Wael Qandil, the former editor of the popular Egyptian newspaper Al-Shorouq in London, told Reuters on Twitter that he was not surprised by the content of the leaks because Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is a small official in the administration of US President Donald Rumsfeld. Trump.
In a phone call to media intelligence officer Said Hassanein, Azmi Mujahid, Mufid Fawzi and the actress Yusra, the leak provoked by the channel "McMullen" called on the public to accept US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Social Media.
More than one of the most frequently traded lists, such as "New York Times", "Leaking Jerusalem" and "Leaked Leaks", are also published, as well as a label bearing the famous sentence received by the officer for two senses.
The attempts by the electronic battalions to repel the attack on the system of "refusal in public and in secret" as described by activists, whether to try to challenge the infiltration or attack on the Palestinians, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood as they were accustomed to, have not succeeded.
At the same time, Hassanein and Khalid Al-Kahkaki announced on Al-Nahar television channel that he intended to sue the New York Times in her home country in the United States. Diaa Rashwan, head of the State Information Service and Egyptian media, said the New York Times correspondent David Kirk Patrick Which triggered the crisis, "a conspiracy of brothers has taken place."
"It is a matter of history that will stop for centuries," said Mohammed.
"Summary of leaks # New York Times that states were the last respected men in the Egyptian army Suleiman Khater and Saad al-Din Shazly." "All of Palestine and its cities are holy and important to us, but it is not understood by those who sell their land. Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine, and Ramallah, Haifa, Acre and Gaza, and all of them pride themselves on their capital and do not replace it.
Shalali Omar said: "Distinguish the responsibility of the Egyptian people because history will say that Egypt sold Jerusalem, and I do not know the Egyptians as if the men of the January Revolution all died thousand leaks and positions that destroyed Egypt and they went to disguise themselves and denounce the suffering of the people. The blood of revolutionaries will hold you accountable. "
Safati said: "The leaking of Jerusalem has shown how much dirt we have received and which has left the reality of Benyashah and the extent of our rulers abandoning the land of our sisters.
He wrote d. Mohammed al-Saghir: "The leaks of Jerusalem have confirmed previous leaks about the sponsors of the programs, puppets and puppets operated by the intelligence services, and that the Al-Sisi system is paving the way for the deal with the sponsors of the Gulf and they are all under the Israeli quilt.
Karima al-Hawari said that the leaks do not contain anything new. She said: "You have become corrupt and corrupt, and do not differentiate between them, and they go out in their media, inciting blood that is greater than the destruction of the Kaaba. "He said.
And Ahmed Mohammed admired the contradiction of the Egyptian intelligence: "# Leaks of Jerusalem, the Egyptian intelligence in the day with Hamas and the resistance and the consolidation of reconciliation and at night Jerusalem and Ramallah one! Oh God, the response of their hands in their throats."
French President Emmanuel Macaron delivered a speech at the start of his visit to China in Xi'an, the birthplace of Chinese civilization, in which he called for a broad alliance between France, Europe and China for the "future of the world." Macaron stressed the importance of increasing commitment to combating climate change and building balanced cooperation between China and Europe.
French President Emmanuel Macaron Monday called for a broad alliance between France, Europe and China, especially in the field of climate and China's "New Silk Road" project, pledging to visit China "once a year at least."
"Our destinies are intertwined," McCron said in an hour-and-a-quarter speech in Xi'an, the birthplace of Chinese civilization in the north of the country and the first leg of his China visit, where he arrived in the morning.
"The future needs France, Europe and China, we are the memory of the world, it is up to us to decide to be its future," he said.
McCron will introduce Chinese President Xi Jinping, who met Monday and Tuesday in Beijing, to "re-launch the climate battle" by "increasing our commitments" to combat warming at the 24th International Environment Conference scheduled for the end of 2018 in Poland.
The French president said that the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement on the climate requires a French-Chinese leadership in this area, declaring a "French-Chinese year of environmental transition" for the period 2018-2019.
He stressed that without China's decision to adhere to it, "the Paris agreement would not have continued" after the US decision, pointing out in return that China remains the first country in terms of emissions of greenhouse gases.
"China has fulfilled its promise, you have demonstrated your true awareness and tremendous sense of responsibility." Who would have imagined a few years ago that China would emerge as a force that would make it at the forefront of the world?
"France is undergoing a profound transformation, and with it Europe is returning to building a balanced cooperation with China," he said, calling for "the sectors in which we can cooperate and open our markets on both sides, and those we do not want to."
He also called for "progress" in the new silk road project launched by Xi Jinping in 2013 with the aim of cementing China's trade ties through Europe and Asia.
"I hope that France and Europe will be present at the date set by China," he said.
He pointed out that the Silk Road "was never a purely Chinese day," explaining that it was "originally Portuguese" and crossed Central Asia. "I do not want to turn them into European roads, but these roads are common and can not be one-way."
At the same time, in a bid to avoid a full-scale confrontation with Hamas, by seeking ideas to improve economic conditions in the Gaza Strip, a prominent Israeli research center called for the use of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's regime to "seduce" To prevent small Palestinian factions and groups from continuing to fire rockets in a manner that could lead to the deterioration of the situation to the extent of the confrontation that Tel Aviv sees as not serving its interests.
In a study published by the National Security Research Center on its website on Monday, prepared by retired general Adi Dekel, commander of the former planning brigade of the occupation army, he urged decision-makers in Tel Aviv to ask the Sisi system to use the "carrot and stick" strategy in dealing with Hamas, In order to force it to move to prevent small factions from continuing to fire rockets at Israel.
The study stressed that "the employment of the Egyptian role is of great importance, because all the indicators show that the conditions that preceded the outbreak of the three previous confrontations between Hamas and Israel are available now," stressing that "the best solution lies in granting the Gaza Strip economic returns and facilities For the launching of infrastructure across Egypt, in order to "lure" the movement "Hamas" to work for the failure to develop conditions conducive to a comprehensive confrontation.
"It is necessary to strengthen the chances of Hamas accepting the Egyptian proposal, by intimidating it by deploying military forces in the vicinity of the Gaza Strip, which sends a message to the leadership of the movement that Israel is ready to reoccupy the Gaza Strip if it does not respond to the Sisi, "Egypt's role is to meet the interests of the Sisi regime, which is supposed to play a central role in managing the Palestinian issue, as well as serving the interests of Tel Aviv in reducing the influence of Iran, Qatar and Turkey in the sector."
"Israel must continue to deal with Hamas as the sole authority in the Gaza Strip, which must be paid for in response to any rocket attacks by other factions in order to maintain Israel's deterrent power, The military movement, "noting that" Israel is based on the assumption that the movement "Hamas" is not currently involved in a confrontation with Israel, because the completion of national reconciliation is a top priority, as well as it is concerned to strengthen its internal and regional legitimacy, "and" a new confrontation with Israel Reduces the movement's ability to achieve these objectives Duff ".
According to the author of the study, "Israel, on the other hand, is also not interested in a comprehensive confrontation, as it realizes that the coming confrontation can escalate to the point where Israel is forced to occupy the entire Gaza Strip, a development that is contrary to Israel's strategic interests." That "the conclusions reached by the Israeli investigation committees that studied the course of the war of 2014, together with the assertion of Minister Avigdor Lieberman that the next war will be the last war against" Hamas "will push the Israeli army to occupy the sector in the event of a new war.
The study warned that "the end of any confrontation with Hamas by occupying the Strip means that Israel bears direct responsibility for the relief of 2 million Palestinians, as well as paying an economic price for this responsibility, as well as the depletion of its military capabilities due to the concentration of large army forces within the borders of the Gaza Strip, not to mention About the high political costs that Tel Aviv will pay in the international arena after this step. "
"The frequency of indications of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's reluctance to implement the reconciliation agreement and public protests against US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has reduced Hamas's motivation to prevent other groups from firing rockets, Missile ".
He said that Hamas, which relies on Iranian financial support to develop its military capabilities, is not enthusiastic about preventing the Islamic Jihad movement, which the study described as "most closely associated with Iran," from firing rockets. "The Egyptian enthusiasm for achieving Palestinian reconciliation "The internal situation has declined due to the collapse of the chances of achieving Trump's vision of a settlement, in which Cairo believed that Palestinian reconciliation could help push it."
Dekel's study stressed that "Israel's strategic interests require that the Sisi system be given the ability to work to try to entice Hamas to prevent the possibility of a new confrontation." If Hamas rejects the Egyptian offer, it would give Israel regional and international legitimacy to A powerful blow to the movement. "
Israeli-Palestinian plan
On the other hand, revealed the newspaper "Jerusalem Post", on Monday, revealed that the Israeli Cabinet of Mini Security Affairs decided, at its last meeting, the formation of a committee to study a proposal prepared by an Israeli-Dutch committee 19 years ago, aimed at improving the economic conditions in the Gaza Strip from During the inauguration of an airport and a floating port off the coast of Gaza, as well as the launching of infrastructure projects that lead to the improvement of economic conditions in the Gaza Strip seriously.
The newspaper said that the project includes the drying of areas of the sea and the construction of thousands of housing units, as well as more reconstruction projects, and quoted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as saying that he studied the launch of this project after his arrival for the first time in 1996, and that he withdrew the idea after objections Groups defending the environment.
In an interview with Israel's second television channel a week ago, Israel's Minister of Communications and Intelligence, Yisrael Katz, revealed that "all the ministers in the small cabinet for security affairs are in favor of the project, with the exception of the minister of war Lieberman."
He stressed that "this project will serve national security To Israel, because it will reduce the chances of confrontation with the movement "Hamas", and that "there is no strategic returns that can be earned by Israel from these confrontations."
