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New York State
su Pports and
funds the Statue
°f Liberty and
Ellis Island to
keep both
Open during
Federal
Government
shutdown.
SETH WENIG I Associated Press
Tourists walk past a sign near the embarkation point for the Statue of Liberty in New York, Thursday, Dec. 27. The Statue of
Liberty and Ellis Island will remain open despite the ongoing partial government shutdown, even as some national parks and
monuments close down, according to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
White House, Dems see little progress on border wall funding
BY JULIET LINDERMAN
AND DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -
Chances look slim for end
ing the partial government
shutdown any time soon.
House lawmakers are
being told not to expect fur
ther votes this week, all but
ensuring the shutdown will
enter a second week and
stretch toward the new year.
Lawmakers are away
from Washington for the
holidays and have been told
they will get 24 hours’ notice
before having to return for
a vote. And although both
the House the Senate were
slated to come into session
briefly Thursday afternoon,
few senators or representa
tives were expected to be
around for it.
President Donald Trump
is vowing to hold the line
on his demand for money
to build a border wall. Back
from the 29-hour trip to visit
U.S. troops, Trump tweeted
Thursday that “we desper
ately need” a wall on the
Mexico border, funding for
which has been a flashpoint
between the White House
and Congress ever since
Trump took office.
He called on Democrats
in Congress to fund his
wall, saying the shutdown
affects their supporters. He
asserted without evidence:
“Do the Dems realize that
most of the people not get
ting paid are Democrats?”
Virginia Democratic
Sen. Mark Warner called
Trump’s comments “out
rageous.” In his tweet, he
added: “Federal employees
don’t go to work wearing
red or blue jerseys. They’re
public servants. And the
President is treating them
like poker chips at one of his
failed casinos.”
After a weekend and two
holiday days for federal
employees, Wednesday was
the first regularly scheduled
workday affected by the clo
sure of a variety of federal
services. A brief statement
Thursday from the office of
Louisiana Rep. Steve Scal-
ise, the No. 3 Republican,
spoke to the dim prospect
for a quick solution. “Mem
bers are advised that no
votes are expected in the
House this week,” the state
ment said. “Please stay
tuned to future updates for
more information.”
The shutdown started
Saturday when funding
lapsed for nine Cabinet-level
departments and dozens of
agencies. Roughly 420,000
workers were deemed
essential and are work
ing unpaid, while an addi
tional 380,000 have been
furloughed.
While the White House
was talking to congressio
nal Democrats — and staff
talks continued on Capitol
Hill — negotiations dragged
Wednesday, dimming hopes
for a swift breakthrough.
Republican Rep. Mark
Meadows of North Carolina,
a Trump ally who has been
involved in the talks, said
the president “is very firm
in his resolve that we need
to secure our border.” He
told CNN, “If they believe
that this president is going to
yield on this particular issue,
they’re misreading him.”
The impasse over gov
ernment funding began
last week, when the Sen
ate approved a bipartisan
deal keeping government
open into February. That
bill provided $1.3 billion for
border security projects but
not money for the wall. At
Trump’s urging, the House
approved that package and
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inserted the $5.7 billion he
had requested.
But Senate Republicans
lacked the votes they needed
to force the measure through
their chamber. That jump-
started negotiations between
Congress and the White
House, but the deadline came
and went without a deal.
The shutdown has been
playing out against the back
drop of turmoil in the stock
market.
Kevin Hassett, the chair
man of the White House’s
Council of Economic Advis
ers, said the shutdown does
not change the administra
tion’s expectation for strong
growth heading into 2019. He
told reporters a shutdown of
a few weeks is not going to
have any “significant effect
on the outlook.”
Father of dead
Guatemalan boy
heard incorrect
border rumors
BY SONIA PEREZ D.
Associated Press
GUATEMALA CITY -
The father of an 8-year-old
Guatemalan boy who died
in U.S. custody took his son
to the border after hearing
rumors that parents and
their children would be
allowed to migrate to the
United States and
escape the poverty
in their homeland,
the boy’s stepsister
told The Associ
ated Press.
Felipe Gomez
Alonzo died Mon
day at a New
Mexico hospital
after suffering
coughing, vomit
ing and fever, authorities
said. It was the second such
death this month. Another
Guatemalan child, 7-year-
old Jakelin Caal, died in
U.S. custody on Dec. 8.
Both deaths are under
investigation.
“We heard rumors that
they could pass (into the
United States). They said
they could pass with the
children,” said Catarina
Gomez Lucas, the boy’s
21-year-old stepsister,
explaining why Felipe and
his father, Agustin Gomez,
made the dangerous
journey.
Gomez Lucas would not
say who spread the rumors
or who transported the
father and son to the bor
der from Yalambojoch in
Huehuetenango province, a
poor community of return
ees from Mexico who had
fled Guatemala in the
bloodiest years of that coun
try’s 1960-1996 civil war.
The stepsister spoke to the
AP on Wednesday by tele
phone from Yalambojoch.
The boy’s death came
during an ongoing dispute
over border security and
with the U.S. government
partially shut down over
President Donald Trump’s
insistence on funding for a
longer border wall.
The Trump adminis
tration has long argued
smugglers capitalize on vul
nerable parents because of
“loopholes” in American
law, such as anti-trafficking
legislation passed in 2008
that effectively prevents
the immediate
deportations of
Central American
children.
After hear
ing the rumors,
Agustin Gomez
thought he should
take advantage
of “the opportu
nity” to fulfill his
son’s dreams. He
grabbed a few changes of
clothing, bought the boy
new shoes and left with
what money he had, Gomez
Lucas said.
Felipe “always wanted a
bicycle,” and in the U.S. he
wouldn’t have to endure the
poverty and lack of oppor
tunity in Guatemala, she
said.
The boy’s mother,
31-year-old Catarina Alonzo
Perez, said she spoke with
her son the day before they
arrived at the U.S. border.
“He wasn’t sick on the
way; he wasn’t sick here,”
she said through her step
daughter in the Mayan lan
guage known as Chuj.
Both Felipe and Jakelin
came from rural communi
ties with extreme poverty.
Both were taken to the bor
der by their parents and
detained by the U.S. Border
Patrol before they fell ill.
It appears Felipe got sick
after authorities moved
him from El Paso, Texas, to
Alamogordo, New Mexico,
because of overcrowding.
“He was very happy
to leave” on the voyage,
Gomez Lucas said, so the
family does not understand
what happened.
Alonzo
Shutdown most likely to
stretch into next week
