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VOL. CLXVI . . No. 57,688 © 2017 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2017

HAMPTON, Iowa — It was quittingtime. Edith Rivera took one last lunch or-der, dropped off a basket of tortilla chipsand set off from work, heading out to thefarm roads where other immigrantsfeared to drive.

Like them, Ms. Rivera, 33, had no legalstatus in the country where she had livedfor 18 years. She had no driver’s license,apart from the long-expired North Car-olina identification she held safe, like a tal-isman, in her wallet.

But as she skimmed past the northernIowa cornfields on her way to her sonSteven’s seventh-grade track meet, shedid not share other immigrants’ fears. Notof being pulled over. Not of raids or depor-tation. Not of the man in the White House.Not of the new Franklin County sheriff’squest to make sure this rapidly diversi-fying community of hog barns and eggfarms would never again be known as animmigrant sanctuary.

Her American journey was waning, andshe had little left to lose.

Her husband, Jesús Canseco-Rodri-guez, was already gone — deported toMexico in 2015. Ms. Rivera had jettisonedtheir apartment and sold off what the fam-ily had built here in Hampton: their smallbusiness power-washing hog barns, Mr.Canseco’s work truck, their furniture.

Now, at this tense juncture for immi-grants and their adoptive hometowns

across the conservative swaths of ruralAmerica, Ms. Rivera planned to sever onelast tie. She was returning to Mexico —and to her husband — with Steven, 13years old and American-born.

Some politicians call it “self-deporta-tion.” She called it her family’s only hopeof being together.

Steven Canseco, 13, and his mother, Edith Rivera, in Hampton, Iowa. To re-unite the family, she took her American-born son to Mexico to join his father.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY TIM GRUBER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

LOVINGAND LEAVING

AMERICA

Stay, Hide, ‘Self-Deport’? Facing Hard Choices

in the Heartland

By JACK HEALY

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BEIJING — In a diplomaticgamble, President Trump is seek-ing to enlist China as a peacemak-er in the bristling nuclear-edgeddispute with North Korea at thevery moment he plans to ratchetup conflict with Beijing over tradeissues that have animated his poli-tical rise.

Mr. Trump spoke late Fridaywith his counterpart, President XiJinping of China, to press the Chi-nese to do more to rein in NorthKorea as it races toward develop-ment of long-range nuclear weap-ons that could reach the UnitedStates. Mr. Xi sought to lower thetemperature after Mr. Trump’svow to rain down “fire and fury”on North Korea, urging restraintand a political solution.

But the conversation came asMr. Trump’s administration waspreparing new trade actionagainst China that could inflamethe relationship. Mr. Trump plansto return to Washington on Mon-day to sign a memo determiningwhether China should be investi-gated for intellectual property vio-

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To Enlist China,Trump GamblesOn Dual Fronts

By JANE PERLEZand PETER BAKER

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Aftera four-day fusillade of apocalyp-tic threats against North Korea,President Trump left many inWashington and capitals

throughout thePacific wonderingwhether it was moremethod or madness.Among those won-

dering were members of Mr.Trump’s own administration.

It was not the first time in hisunconventional presidency thatMr. Trump had unnerved friendand foe alike, but never beforehad it seemed so consequential.Unrestrained attacks on uncoop-erative members of his ownparty, the “dishonest media” andthe cast of “Saturday Night Live”generally do not raise fears ofnuclear war. But as with so muchwith Mr. Trump, the line betweencalculation and impulse can beblurry.

In the broadest sense, Mr.Trump’s “fire and fury” and“locked and loaded” warnings fitthe strategic imperatives of the

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S. Mueller III, is in talks with theWest Wing about interviewingcurrent and former senior admin-istration officials, including the re-cently ousted White House chiefof staff, Reince Priebus, accordingto three people briefed on the dis-cussions.

Mr. Mueller has asked theWhite House about specific meet-ings, who attended them and

whether there are any notes, tran-scripts or documents about them,two of the people said. Among thematters Mr. Mueller wants to askthe officials about is PresidentTrump’s decision in May to fire theF.B.I. director, James B. Comey,the two people said.

That line of questioning will beimportant as Mr. Mueller contin-ues to investigate whether Mr.

Trump obstructed justice in thedismissal of Mr. Comey.

No interviews have been sched-uled, but in recent weeks Mr.Mueller’s investigation has ap-peared to intensify. Late lastmonth, he took the aggressivestep of executing a search war-rant at the Alexandria, Va., homeof Paul J. Manafort, Mr. Trump’s

WASHINGTON — In a signthat the investigation into Russianinterference in the 2016 presiden-tial election will remain a continu-ing distraction for the WhiteHouse, the special counsel, Robert

Mueller Is Said to Seek White House Interviews in Russia InquiryThis article is by Michael S.

Schmidt, Matt Apuzzo and MaggieHaberman.

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With the arrival of two revolu-tionary treatment strategies, im-munotherapy and personalizedmedicine, cancer researchershave found new hope — and aproblem that is perhaps unprece-dented in medical research.

There are too many experi-mental cancer drugs in too manyclinical trials, and not enough pa-tients to test them on.

The logjam is caused partly bycompanies hoping to rush prof-itable new cancer drugs to mar-ket, and partly by the nature ofthese therapies, which can be

spectacularly effective but only inselect patients.

In July, an expert panel of theFood and Drug Administrationapproved a groundbreaking newleukemia treatment, a type of im-munotherapy. Companies arescrambling to develop otherdrugs based on using the immunesystem itself to attack cancers.

Many of these experimentalcandidates in trials are quite simi-lar. Yet each drug company wantsto have its own proprietary ver-sion, seeing a potential windfall if

As Cancer Drug Tests Multiply,Some Struggle to Find Patients

By GINA KOLATA

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ers were injured, at least 19 in thecar crash, according to a spokes-woman for the University of Vir-ginia Medical Center.

Col. Martin Kumer, the superin-tendent of the Albemarle-Char-lottesville Regional Jail, con-firmed Saturday evening that anOhio man, James Alex Fields Jr.,20, of Maumee, had been arrestedand charged with second-degreemurder, three counts of maliciouswounding and failing to stop at thescene of a crash that resulted in adeath. But the authorities de-clined to say publicly that Mr.Fields was the driver of the carthat plowed into the crowd.

Witnesses to the crash said agray sports car accelerated into acrowd of counterdemonstrators —who were marching jubilantlynear the mall after the white na-tionalists had left — and hurled atleast two people in the air.

“It was probably the scariestthing I’ve ever seen in my life,”said Robert Armengol, who was atthe scene reporting for a podcasthe hosts with students at the Uni-

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. —The city of Charlottesville was en-gulfed by violence on Saturday aswhite nationalists and counter-protesters clashed in one of thebloodiest fights to date over theremoval of Confederate monu-ments across the South.

White nationalists had longplanned a demonstration over thecity’s decision to remove a statueof Robert E. Lee. But the rallyquickly exploded into racial taunt-ing, shoving and outright brawl-ing, prompting the governor to de-clare a state of emergency and theNational Guard to join the policein clearing the area.

Those skirmishes mostly re-sulted in cuts and bruises. But af-ter the rally at a city park was dis-persed, a car bearing Ohio licenseplates plowed into a crowd nearthe city’s downtown mall, killing a32-year-old woman. Some 34 oth-

White Nationalist ProtestLeads to Deadly Violence

Brawling Erupts in Virginia — OpponentsClash and a Car Plows Into a Crowd

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and BRIAN M. ROSENTHAL

A car slammed into a group of counterprotesters after a rally bywhite nationalists on Saturday in Charlottesville, Va.

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TRUMP ON HATRED The presidentblamed “many sides” for theCharlottesville unrest. PAGE 14

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