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NATIONAL

NEW YORK (AP)

Protesters around the U.S. spent Presidents Day rallying against

President Donald Trump’s national emergency declara-tion as at least a dozen states planned a lawsuit to block Trump’s latest ploy to fund his long-promised border wall.

“Trump is the national emergency!” chanted a group of hundreds lined up Monday at the White House fence while Trump was out of town in Florida. Some held up large letters spelling out “stop power grab.” In downtown Fort Worth, Texas, a small group carried signs with messages including “no wall! #FakeTrumpEmer-gency.”

California and 15 other states, including Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico, filed a lawsuit Monday against President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration to fund a

wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released a statement Monday saying the suit alleges the Trump administration’s action violates the Constitution.

Organized by the liberal group MoveOn and others, Monday’s demonstrations took

the occasion of the Presidents Day holiday to assail Trump’s proclama-tion as undemo-cratic and anti-immigrant.

Kelly Quirk, of the progressive group Soma Action, told a gathering of dozens in Newark, New Jersey, that “democ-racy demands” saying “no more” to Trump.

“There are plenty of real emergen-cies to invest our tax dollars in,” said Quirk.

In New York City, hundreds of people at a Manhattan park chanted “No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here” as several of them held up letters spelling out, “IMPEACH.”

There were some counter-protesters, including in Washington, where there was a brief scuffle in the crowd.

Trump’s declaration Friday shifts bil-lions of dollars from military construction to the border. The move came after Con-gress didn’t approve as much as Trump wanted for the wall, which the Republican considers a national security necessity.

His emergency proclamation calls the border “a major entry point for criminals, gang members, and illicit narcotics.”

Illegal border crossings have declined from a high of 1.6 million in 2000. But 50,000 families are now entering illegally each month, straining the U.S. asylum system and border facilities.

Trump’s critics have argued he undercut his own rationale for the emergency decla-ration by saying he “didn’t need to do this” but wanted to get the wall built faster than he otherwise could. In announcing the move, he said he anticipated the legal chal-lenges.

“President Trump declared a national emergency in order to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on his border wall obses-sion,” Manar Waheed of the American Civil Liberties Union told protesters rally-ing in a Washington park before heading to the nearby White House fence. The ACLU has announced its intention to sue Trump over the issue.

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Protesters gather outside Senator John Cornyn’s office on Monday, February 18, 2019 in Houston, Texas, as part of a national day of protests against the national emergency declaration

issued by President Donald Trump.

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NATIONAL: Protests over Trump’s declaration as states ready lawsuit

STATE: Lawmakers advance limits on vaccine exemptions

FINANCIAL LITERACY: Help for Federal Government Employees During the Shutdown

NATIONAL: Women detained by border agent after speaking Spanish sue

POLITICS: White House indicates Trump to veto disapproval of emergency

LATIN AMERICA: Locals find monarch colony in Mexico after years long search

SPORTS: Ichiro back in Mariners’ camp at 45 with chance to play

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OLYMPIA, Washington (AP)

Washington state lawmak-ers advanced a measure Friday that would remove

parents’ ability to claim a personal or philosophical exemption to vaccinating their school-age children for measles as the Pacific Northwest struggles with an outbreak of the contagious virus.

The House Health Care and Wellness Committee approved House Bill 1638 on a 10-5 vote. The full House could vote on it in the coming weeks.

The legislation comes amid an out-break that has sickened more than 60 people in the Pacific Northwest and led Washington Gov. Jay Inslee to declare a state of emergency. Washington is among 17 states, including Oregon, that allow some type of non-medical vaccine exemption for “personal, moral or other beliefs,” according to the National Con-ference of State Legislatures.

Washington now allows vaccina-tion exemptions for children at public or private schools or licensed day-care

centers based on medical, reli-gious and per-sonal or philo-sophical beliefs. Unless an exemp-tion is claimed, a child is required to be vacci-nated against or show proof of acquired immu-nity for nearly a dozen diseases — including polio, whooping cough and mumps — before they can attend school or a child care center.

H u n d r e d s of people who oppose ending the exemptions, including environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., showed up at a public hearing on the legislation last week.

A broader measure introduced in the state Senate, which would not allow per-sonal or philosophical exemptions to be granted for any required school vaccina-

tions, is scheduled for a public hearing next Wednesday.

Four percent of Washington sec-ondary school stu-dents have non-medical vaccine exemptions, the state Department of Health said. Of those, 3.7 percent of the exemptions are personal, and the rest are reli-gious.

In Clark County — an area just north of Portland, Oregon, where all but one of the Washington cases are concentrated — 6.7 percent

of kindergartners had a non-medical exemption for the 2017-18 school year, health officials said.

Lawmakers advance limits on vaccine exemptions

In this February 8, 2019, file photo, people hold signs at a rally at the Capitol in Olympia, Washington, to op-pose a proposed bill that would remove parents’ ability to claim a philosophical exemption to opt their school-

age children out of the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.

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HELENA, Montana

Two Montana women ques-tioned by a U.S. border agent who overheard them speaking

Spanish in a convenience store sued U.S. Customs and Border Protection today, saying the agent illegally detained them without reason.

The agent held Ana Suda and Martha Hernandez for 40 minutes in a parking lot in Havre in May 2018 without reason-able suspicion or probable cause, accord-ing to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Great Falls.

His only reason for doing so, they said, was because they were taking in Spanish while waiting in line to buy milk and eggs.

Suda took a video of the parking lot encounter with CBP Agent Paul O’Neal in which she asks him why he wanted their identifications.

“Ma’am, the reason I asked you for your ID is because I came in here and I saw that you guys are speaking Spanish, which is very unheard of up here,” O’Neal

said in the video.CBP spokesman Jason Givens said

Thursday the agency doesn’t comment on pending litigation.

The women’s ACLU lawyers say O’Neal should have let them go as soon as they identified themselves as U.S. citizens, but he instead detained them in violation of the Fourth Amendment barring unrea-sonable searches and seizures.

The lawsuit also claims the agent tar-geted them based on their race in vio-lation of the Fifth Amendment’s due process protections.

O’Neal and later his supervisor made it clear through their words and actions that the women weren’t free to leave the parking lot, ACLU attorney Alex Rate wrote in the lawsuit.

“Speaking Spanish does not establish reasonable suspicion justifying a stop and detention, much less probable cause for an arrest,” Rate wrote.

Suda and Hernandez are asking for an unspecified amount of money in compensation, punitive damages and a judge’s order barring border officials

from stopping or detaining anyone based on race, accent or language.

Suda was born in Texas and moved to Montana with her husband in 2014. Her-

nandez was born in California and has been living in Montana since 2010. Both are certified nursing assistants who work at an assisted-living center.

NATIONALWomen detained by border agent after speaking Spanish sue

This Wednesday, January 23, 2019 photo provided by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Montana shows Martha Hernandez, left, and Ana Suda posing in front of a gas station in Havre, Montana.

POLITICS

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP)

President Donald Trump is pre-pared to issue the first veto of his term if Congress votes to disap-

prove his declaration of a national emer-gency along the U.S.-Mexico border, a top White House adviser said on Sunday.

White House senior adviser Stephen Miller told “Fox News Sunday” that “the president is going to protect his national emergency declaration.” Asked if that meant Trump was ready to veto a reso-lution of disapproval, Miller added, “He’s going to protect his national emergency declaration, guaranteed.”

The West Wing is digging in for fights on multiple fronts as the president’s effort to go around Congress to fund his long-promised border wall faces bipartisan criticism and multiple legal challenges. After lawmakers in both parties blocked his requests for billions of dollars to fulfill his signature campaign pledge, Trump’s declared national emergency Friday shifts billions of federal dollars earmarked for

military construction to the border.

Democrats are plan-ning to introduce a res-olution disapproving of the declaration once Congress returns to session and it is likely to pass both chambers. Several Republican sen-ators are already indi-cating they would vote against Trump — though there do not yet appear to be enough votes to override a veto by the president.

The White House’s Miller insisted that Con-gress granted the pres-ident wide berth under the National Emergencies Act to take action. But Trump’s declaration goes beyond previ-ous emergencies in shifting money after Congress blocked his funding request for the wall, which will likely factor in legal

challenges.Trump aides acknowledge that Trump

cannot meet his pledge to build the wall by the time voters decide whether to grant him another term next year, but insist his base will remain by his side as long as he is not perceived to have given up the fight

on the barrier.Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del.,

told CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he believes Congress needs to act to “defend” its powers of the purse.

“I do think that we should not set the terrible precedent of letting a president declare a national emergency simply as a way of getting around the congressional appropriations process,” he said.

Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, a critic of Trump’s border poli-cies, said he would support legislation to review Trump’s emergency declaration, saying, “It sets a dangerous precedent.”

“My concern is our gov-ernment wasn’t designed to operate by national emergency,” he told CBS.

Trump ally Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told ABC that he believes there are enough GOP votes to prevent the supermajorities required to override a veto.

White House indicates Trump to veto disapproval of emergency

President Donald Trump speaks during an event at the White House to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall on the border with Mexico, on Friday,

February 15, 2019, in Washington.

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AMANALCO DE BECERRA, Mexico (AP)

For years, park rangers and conser-vationists working around Mexi-co’s Nevado de Toluca volcano

chased rumors of a monarch butterfly colony that wintered high in a forest of oyamel firs in some corner of the 132,000-acre (53,419-hectare) national reserve.

Local woodsmen would report seeing some of the butterflies fluttering about and scouting teams would scramble to trek into the forest.

They eventually narrowed their search to a swath of communal lands more than 10,000 feet (3,048 meters) above sea level on the northwestern side of the park, but still couldn’t find the colony.

“It was like an urban legend,” said Gloria Tavera Alonso, a regional director with Mexico’s agency for protected natural areas.

Just a few days before Christmas though, a handful of communal landowners were on a routine patrol of their forest when they discovered the monarchs on a steep mountainside bisected by a dirt track far from the volcano’s iconic crater. The but-terflies were hidden in plain sight.

In towering firs, they hung in massive clumps on sagging boughs, their brilliant orange and black colors concealed by the pale underside of their closed wings.

Jose Luis Hernandez Vazquez, a local forester, said landowners initially worried about announcing the find.

“We didn’t make a big deal,” he said.Instead, he contacted the agency for

protected natural areas and other govern-ment stakeholders who came to confirm the existence of the colony in mid-January.

Mario Castaneda Rojas, director of the Nevado de Toluca reserve, said officials stopped in their tracks when a butterfly crossed their path.

“Something is happening,” he recalled thinking.

At the end of last month, Mexican offi-cials announced that the overall popula-tion of monarch butterflies wintering in central Mexico was up 144 percent over the previous year. Researchers found the butterflies occupying 15 acres (6 hectares) of pine and fir forests in the mountains of Michoacan and Mexico states, compared to only 6 acres (2 hectares) the winter prior.

The monarch butterfly population, like that of other insects, fluctuates widely depending on a variety of factors, but sci-entists say the recoveries after each big dip tend to be smaller, suggesting a decline in the number migrating from Canada and the United States.

This winter’s population figure, however, was the largest since 2006-2007.

Chip Taylor, director of Monarch Watch and an ecology professor at the University of Kansas, who runs a monarch tagging program, said that established colonies normally have butterflies. But he knew it was going to be a better year when others were spotted.

“When the population really grows, they’ll see monarchs where they don’t see them in normal years,” Taylor said.

LATIN AMERICALocals find monarch colony in Mexico

after years long search

A Monarch butterfly rests on the finger of a woman in the Amanalco de Becerra sanctuary, on the moun-tains near the extinct Nevado de Toluca volcano, in Mexico, on Thursday, February 14, 2019.

SPORTS

PEORIA, Arizona (AP)

Ichiro Suzuki fluidly went through a variety of stretches

on the floor in the Seattle Mariners clubhouse even before going onto the field. Once outside, he smoothly went through fielding, hitting and baserunning drills.

At 45 and in spring training again, Suzuki is working toward the chance to play for his orig-inal major league team in his home country.

“Being able to put on the Seattle Mariners uniform as a player, being here the first day, it is just amazing, it is great,” Suzuki said through a translator. “Very satisfied with today and how it went, and I’m just going to take it day by day.”

The former MVP and 10-time All-Star outfielder is in camp on a minor league deal after serving in a special assis-tant’s role most of last year when he still worked out with the team. If he’s healthy, Suzuki will be part of the Mariners’ expanded 28-player roster next month for their season-opening two games in Tokyo against Oakland.

“My body really hasn’t changed,” he said.

Suzuki, who said he took off only two or three days from working out during the offseason, checked in at camp with only 7 percent body fat.

“He looks unbelievable, like he’s pre-pared every minute of every day to get to this time, and it’s probably because he has,” general manager Jerry Dipoto said. “He’s so focused on his goals, and right now his goal is to make sure that he is on that plane when we leave for Tokyo.”

Large groups of fans and Japanese media followed Suzuki everywhere he went during the first workout.

When asked how much he looked forward to the Japan series, Suzuki insisted that he’s not yet thinking about that. The player with 4,367 career hits — 3,089 in the 18 big league seasons and 1,278 in nine seasons in Japan before that — is focused on his daily work.

“I think a 45-year-old baseball player really shouldn’t be thinking about the future. It’s about today,” said Suzuki, who would be MLB’s active career hits leader if he’s on the big league roster, seven more than Albert Pujols since Adrian Beltre retired after last season with 3,166 hits.

After the Japan series, it is unclear where or even if Suzuki would fit into a team that is in a rebuild mode with a focus on younger players, and 34 new-comers for the start of camp. And there will be three fewer roster spots after those first two games against the A’s.

No matter what happens, Suzuki said the Mariners uniform would be the last he will wear in the big leagues.

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Seattle Mariners’ Ichiro Suzuki waits to take batting practice during spring training baseball practice Saturday, February 16, 2019, in

Peoria, Arizona.