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WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump on Tuesday ordered an endto the Obama-era program thatshields young undocumented im-migrants from deportation, call-ing it an “amnesty-first approach”and urging Congress to pass a re-placement before he begins phas-ing out its protections in sixmonths.

As early as March, officials said,some of the 800,000 young adultsbrought to the United States ille-gally as children who qualify forthe program, Deferred Action forChildhood Arrivals, will becomeeligible for deportation. The five-year-old policy allows them to re-main without fear of immediateremoval and gives them the rightto work legally.

Mr. Trump and Attorney Gen-eral Jeff Sessions, who announcedthe change at the Justice Depart-ment, both used the aggrievedlanguage of anti-immigrant activ-ists, arguing that those in thecountry illegally are lawbreakerswho hurt native-born Americansby usurping their jobs and push-ing down wages.

Mr. Trump said in a statementthat he was driven by a concernfor “the millions of Americans vic-timized by this unfair system.” Mr.Sessions said the program had“denied jobs to hundreds of thou-sands of Americans by allowing

those same illegal aliens to takethose jobs.”

Protests broke out in front of theWhite House and the Justice De-partment and in cities across thecountry soon after Mr. Sessions’sannouncement. Democrats andsome Republicans, business exec-utives, college presidents and im-migration activists condemnedthe move as a coldhearted andshortsighted effort that was un-fair to the young immigrants andcould harm the economy.

“This is a sad day for our coun-try,” Mark Zuckerberg, the Face-book founder, wrote on his person-al page. “It is particularly cruel tooffer young people the Americandream, encourage them to comeout of the shadows and trust ourgovernment, and then punishthem for it.”

Former President BarackObama, who had warned that anythreat to the program wouldprompt him to speak out, calledhis successor’s decision “wrong,”“self-defeating” and “cruel.”

“Whatever concerns or com-plaints Americans may haveabout immigration in general, weshouldn’t threaten the future ofthis group of young people whoare here through no fault of theirown, who pose no threat, who arenot taking away anything from the

U.S. ENDS PROGRAMGIVING ‘DREAMERS’LEGAL PROTECTION

Outcry Is Swift and Emotional, as TrumpTells Congress to Fix Immigration

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS

“Dreamers” from Ecuador, on Tuesday in Manhattan, listening to the attorney general announce the end of the DACA program.TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES

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WASHINGTON — For dec-ades, spying on another team hasbeen as much a part of baseball’sgamesmanship as brushbackpitches and hard slides. The Bos-ton Red Sox have apparently add-ed a modern — and illicit — twist:They used an Apple Watch to gain

an advantage against the Yankeesand other teams.

Investigators for Major LeagueBaseball have determined thatthe Red Sox, who are in first placein the American League East andvery likely headed to the playoffs,executed a scheme to illicitly stealhand signals from opponents’catchers in games against the sec-ond-place Yankees and other

teams, according to several peo-ple briefed on the matter.

The baseball inquiry beganabout two weeks ago, after theYankees’ general manager, BrianCashman, filed a detailed com-plaint with the commissioner’s of-fice that included video the Yan-kees shot of the Red Sox dugoutduring a three-game series be-tween the two teams in Boston

last month.The Yankees, who had long

been suspicious of the Red Sox’stealing catchers’ signs in FenwayPark, contended the video showeda member of the Red Sox trainingstaff looking at his Apple Watch inthe dugout. The trainer then re-layed a message to other players

Red Sox Used Apple Watch to Help Steal Signs, Inquiry FindsBy MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT

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CROSBY, Tex. — Residentshave returned to their homes herein the shadow of the Arkemachemical plant now that the firesat the plant are out and the imme-diate safety hazard has passed.

The fires, a result of flooding inthe wake of Hurricane Harveythat caused chemicals to becomeunstable, had little health impactbeyond the 21 emergency workerswho were treated for smoke expo-sure. The returning homeownersnow face more common problemsthat follow a flood: crumblingplasterboard, ruined furnishingsand, above all, mold.

Still, the accident at the planthas exposed large flaws in regula-tion of chemical safety, risk disclo-sure and emergency planning.

Because of a gap in federal envi-ronmental laws long criticized bychemical safety experts, Arkemawas not even required to address,in the emergency plans it submitsto federal regulators, the riskposed by the volatile chemicalsthat overheated and set off firesseveral times last week, sendingdense black smoke billowing overthis town near Houston.

The close call has raised doubtsabout the preparedness of the na-tion’s vast chemicals industry forpotentially bigger disasters, bothnatural and man-made. The Envi-ronmental Protection Agency ig-nores a whole class of chemicals inregulating plant safety that ex-perts say pose explosion hazards.

Other federal agencies respon-sible for inspecting and investi-gating safety at chemical facilitiesare poorly funded, leaving the in-dustry to largely police itself. And

REGULATORY GAPSEXPOSED BY FIRES

Chemical Plant AccidentFrom Texas Flooding

This article is by Clifford Krauss,Hiroko Tabuchi and Henry Foun-tain.

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BEIJING — The two men stoodtogether on the reviewing stand inthe North Korean capital: a top of-ficial in China’s Communist lead-ership wearing a tailored businesssuit and a young dictator in a bluejacket buttoned to his chin.

Liu Yunshan, the visiting Chi-nese dignitary, and Kim Jong-un,the North Korean leader, tried toput on a show of friendship, chat-ting amiably as the camerasrolled, but just as often they stoodsilent, staring ahead as a militaryparade passed before them.

Nearly two years have elapsedsince that encounter, the last high-level visit between China andNorth Korea. The stretch of time isa sign of the distance between twonations with a torturous history:one a rising power seeking re-gional dominance, the other anunpredictable neighbor with itsown ambitions.

China has made little secret of

its long-term goal to replace theUnited States as the major powerin Asia and assume what it consid-ers its rightful position at the cen-ter of the fastest-growing, mostdynamic region in the world.

But North Korea, which defiedBeijing by testing a sixth nuclearbomb on Sunday, has emerged asan unexpected and persistent ob-stacle.

Other major hurdles litter Chi-na’s path. The United States, de-spite signs of retreat in Asia underthe Trump administration, re-mains the dominant militarypower. And India and Japan, Chi-na’s traditional rivals in the re-gion, have made clear that they in-

tend to resist its gravitational pull.Yet North Korea — an outcast of

the international order that Bei-jing hopes to lead, but also a nucle-ar state in part because of China’sown policies — presents a particu-larly nettlesome challenge.

China’s path to dominance re-quires an American withdrawaland a message to American alliesthat they cannot count on theUnited States for protection. ButNorth Korea threatens to draw theUnited States more deeply intothe region and complicate China’seffort to diminish its influence andpersuade countries to live withoutits nuclear umbrella.

At the same time, the strategiclocation of the North — and its ad-vancing nuclear capabilities —makes it dangerous for China torestrain it.

“North Korea may not be thebiggest problem to China, but itdoes add a unique and very seri-ous dimension to China’s task of

Old, Tangled Alliance Keeps China’s Hands TiedBy JANE PERLEZ

Kim Jong-un, center, played host to Liu Yunshan, a top Chinese leader, in 2015 at a military pa-rade in Pyongyang, North Korea. No high-level Chinese official has paid a formal visit since.

KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY, VIA REUTERS

North Korea’s ArsenalThreatens Beijing’s

Ambitions

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LOS ANGELES — Safir Wazed,a graduate student born in Bang-ladesh and raised in California,struggled to focus on his studies.Evelin Salgado, born in Mexicoand raised in Tennessee, was end-ing plans to buy a house and won-dering what would happen to herteaching job.

And Basilisa Alonso did whatthousands of other so-calledDreamers did on Tuesday: Shemarched in the streets to makeher plight known.

“I’m willing to take the risk formy family and for all the otherDACA people out there,” Ms.Alonso said, referring to DeferredAction for Childhood Arrivals, theObama-era program that she wasmarching to save. Minutes later, aNew York City police officermoved in and placed her hand be-hind her back with plastic re-straints. She was among severaldozen people arrested after theyblocked an intersection nearTrump Tower at various times onTuesday.

About 800,000 undocumentedyoung adults like them had en-dured weeks of nail-biting tensionover the fate of DACA, which forthe last five years has enabledthem to legally live and work inthe United States.

On Tuesday, Attorney GeneralJeff Sessions confirmed days ofspeculation that the Trump ad-ministration would end DACA insix months, leaving Congress tocome up with a legislative solutionto replace it. The announcement,fulfilling a campaign pledge ofPresident Trump, immediatelythrew into question the future ofeveryone who signed up underthe program.

“I have been blessed with all theopportunities that DACA broughtto my life,” said Ms. Salgado, 23,who is now a teacher and was the

Marching OnUnder a CloudOf Frustration

By MIRIAM JORDAN

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WASHINGTON — For 16 years,advocates for legalizing young im-migrants brought here illegally bytheir parents have tried to passlegislation to shield them from de-portation. The bill was called theDream Act, and in CongressesDemocratic and Republican, andin the Bush and Obama adminis-trations, whether by stand-alonebill or comprehensive immigra-tion legislation, it failed again andagain.

Now, with 800,000 lives in thebalance and a fiercely anti-immi-gration current running throughthe Republican Party, lawmakersare being asked to try again —with a six-month deadline, to boot.The prospects for success aftermore than a decade of false startswould already be daunting, butPresident Trump may have madethe odds even longer after hepromised voters last year that Re-publicans would take a hard lineon immigration, then punted theissue to Congress.

His invitation to lawmakers onTuesday to “do something and doit right” for the so-called dreamerswill run into the headwinds of hisown politics. On the other hand,lawmakers who for 16 years havebeen unwilling to grant legal sta-tus to a sympathetic group of un-

Call in CongressTo Finish a JobStalled 16 Years

By YAMICHE ALCINDORand SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

Senators Richard J. Durbin,left, and Lindsey Graham.

PETE MAROVICH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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For cities facing their own kinds ofdisasters, Houston is providing a real-life, if terrifying, education. PAGE A14

Storm’s Lessons for Big Cities

Magazines like The Bitter Southerner,edited by Chuck Reece, are re-examin-ing Southern identity. PAGE A13

NATIONAL A12-19

Hard Questions in the South Sick of certifying Iran’s compliance witha deal he abhors, President Trump maykick the decision to Congress. PAGE A11

A Way Out for Trump on Iran

The state has invested nearly $10 mil-lion to turn Lucille Ball’s fading home-town into a comedy mecca. PAGE A20

NEW YORK A20-21, 24

A Revival Built on LaughsJesmyn Ward’s novel “Sing, Unburied,Sing” tells of a teenager and his drug-addicted mother on a road trip. PAGE C1

A Book Poised for the Moment

For the Congolese choreographerFaustin Linyekula, dance is a form ofpoetry written with the body. PAGE C2

ARTS C1-7

Pondering His CountryVideo highlights posted online by theUnited States Open are selected byWatson, the IBM computer, using visualand audio data from matches. PAGE B8

SPORTSWEDNESDAY B8-12

Thrills Chosen by a Machine

Created with much fanfare, CNN’sinvestigative unit was reshaped and itsfocus narrowed after an article that ledto a retraction and an apology. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-7

A CNN Team Humbled

The Trump administration promised toroll back health-conscious Obama-erarules for school cafeterias, but not muchhas changed so far. PAGE D1

FOOD D1-8

The State of School Lunches

Frank Bruni PAGE A23

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23

Brazil charged former Presidents LuizInácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseffwith running a “criminal organization”that netted millions in bribes. PAGE A4

INTERNATIONAL A4-11

Brazil’s Ex-Leaders Charged

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