The New York Times - 12.09.2019

A28 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONALTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

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81/65 A thunderstorm in spots

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74/58 Not as warm with showers

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69/53 Variably cloudy, shower

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64/48 Clouds and sun, cooler

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turn severe over parts of the Midwest. Cooler, showery weather will affect the Northwest.

Highlight: The Weekend Outlook

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Metropolitan Almanac

In Central Park for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday.

Temperature

this month.............. –0.3°

Avg. daily departure from normal ................ +0.7°

Avg. daily departure from normal this year

Reservoir levels (New York City water supply) Yesterday............... 80% Est. normal............. 82%

Precipitation (in inches) Yesterday............... 0.00 Record.................... 2.90 For the last 30 days Actual..................... 2.64 Normal.................... 4.05 For the last 365 days Actual................... 59.74 Normal.................. 49.94 LAST 30 DAYS Air pressure Humidity

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High........... 30.28 1 a.m. Low............ 30.07 4 p.m.

High............. 86% 4 a.m. Low.............. 54% 4 p.m.

An index of fuel consumption that tracks how far the day’s mean temperature rose above 65

Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation trends compare with those of the last 30 years.

Yesterday................................................................... 14 So far this month........................................................ 73 So far this season (since January 1)...................... 1137 Normal to date for the season............................... 1028

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Beach and Ocean Temperatures

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RISE 6:33 a.m. SET 7:11 p.m. NEXT R 6:34 a.m. R 1:49 p.m. S 11:09 p.m. S 1:14 a.m. R 3:54 p.m.

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United States Yesterday Today Tomorrow

N.Y.C. region Yesterday Today Tomorrow
78/ 61 R 70/ 62 PC
Bridgeport 82/ 66 0 74/ 58 R 70/ 61 PC
Caldwell 89/ 65 0 78/ 59 R 73/ 60 PC
Danbury 85/ 60 0 73/ 51 R 69/ 54 PC
Islip 80/ 64 0 74/ 58 R 69/ 58 PC
Newark 89/ 66 0 78/ 61 R 71/ 63 PC
Trenton 87/ 64 0 79/ 60 T 70/ 59 PC
White Plains 85/ 64 0 73/ 56 R 69/ 58 C

Albany 87/ 58 0.19 67/ 48 R 73/ 56 C
Albuquerque 86/ 59 0.05 85/ 60 S 85/ 65 PC
Anchorage 60/ 54 0 62/ 53 R 62/ 51 C
Atlanta 95/ 74 0 97/ 74 S 96/ 72 S
Atlantic City 82/ 72 0 81/ 65 PC 71/ 65 PC
Austin 95/ 72 0.05 95/ 70 PC 97/ 70 S
Baltimore 93/ 73 0 93/ 65 T 73/ 65 Sh
Baton Rouge 93/ 73 0 96/ 73 PC 96/ 72 S
Birmingham 95/ 73 0 97/ 73 S 97/ 74 S
Boise 74/ 50 0 78/ 56 S 84/ 54 S
Boston 86/ 66 0.01 68/ 56 R 67/ 57 S
Buffalo 81/ 62 0.70 67/ 55 R 77/ 66 C
Burlington 81/ 55 0.35 69/ 46 PC 73/ 55 PC
Casper 65/ 42 0.01 66/ 38 W 76/ 46 S
Charlotte 94/ 69 0 96/ 73 S 91/ 71 PC
Chattanooga 96/ 70 0 97/ 74 PC 97/ 74 S
Chicago 88/ 68 0.19 80/ 70 T 78/ 60 PC
Cincinnati 91/ 71 0 91/ 72 S 92/ 65 PC
Cleveland 88/ 70 0 79/ 66 T 87/ 64 T
Colorado Springs 86/ 49 0 77/ 49 S 81/ 52 S
Columbus 89/ 69 0 90/ 70 T 90/ 65 PC
Concord, N.H. 84/ 56 0.06 66/ 43 C 68/ 42 S
Dallas-Ft. Worth 94/ 76 0 94/ 74 PC 93/ 74 S
Denver 85/ 51 0 76/ 51 S 82/ 53 S
Des Moines 89/ 73 Tr 84/ 58 T 78/ 59 S
Detroit 86/ 69 0.21 76/ 65 T 81/ 60 T
El Paso 91/ 72 0.05 93/ 71 PC 88/ 69 T
Fargo 64/ 53 0.10 60/ 48 R 61/ 44 Sh
Hartford 86/ 64 Tr 71/ 51 R 72/ 53 PC
Honolulu 90/ 78 0 91/ 78 PC 91/ 77 S
Houston 91/ 76 0.38 93/ 71 PC 96/ 73 S
Indianapolis 89/ 71 0.01 90/ 71 S 87/ 61 T
Jackson 95/ 71 0 97/ 70 S 98/ 69 S
Jacksonville 88/ 74 0.04 89/ 73 Sh 88/ 74 PC
Kansas City 89/ 72 0 85/ 59 T 79/ 60 PC
Key West 91/ 80 0.08 90/ 80 T 89/ 79 T
Las Vegas 91/ 70 0 94/ 73 S 99/ 76 S
Lexington 95/ 72 0 95/ 72 S 96/ 70 PC

Little Rock 93/ 72 0 94/ 70 S 94/ 71 S Los Angeles 81/ 65 0 89/ 67 S 91/ 67 S Louisville 96/ 75 0 96/ 74 S 96/ 69 PC Memphis 95/ 75 0 95/ 74 S 95/ 76 S Miami 90/ 81 0.05 90/ 80 T 88/ 78 T Milwaukee 77/ 64 0.57 72/ 65 T 74/ 58 W Mpls.-St. Paul 68/ 63 0.55 72/ 54 R 64/ 52 W Nashville 95/ 72 0 96/ 73 S 97/ 73 S New Orleans 94/ 79 0 95/ 80 PC 96/ 79 S Norfolk 86/ 72 0 90/ 73 T 78/ 71 R Oklahoma City 89/ 70 0 88/ 67 T 80/ 67 PC Omaha 90/ 72 0.34 80/ 57 PC 80/ 62 S Orlando 90/ 75 Tr 90/ 77 T 87/ 77 T Philadelphia 91/ 72 0 89/ 63 T 73/ 63 PC Phoenix 96/ 78 0 101/ 80 S 105/ 84 S Pittsburgh 88/ 67 0 83/ 65 T 83/ 66 PC Portland, Me. 81/ 55 0.17 66/ 46 PC 63/ 48 S Portland, Ore. 74/ 57 0.05 81/ 61 PC 75/ 60 C Providence 83/ 63 0 71/ 53 R 70/ 55 S Raleigh 91/ 70 0 94/ 72 S 84/ 68 T Reno 76/ 48 0 84/ 54 S 90/ 54 S Richmond 94/ 70 Tr 95/ 71 S 79/ 67 Sh Rochester 84/ 60 0.19 67/ 53 R 76/ 65 C Sacramento 88/ 58 0 94/ 60 S 97/ 62 S Salt Lake City 67/ 50 0.48 72/ 51 S 80/ 57 S San Antonio 90/ 76 0.96 94/ 73 PC 95/ 73 S San Diego 76/ 66 0 80/ 67 S 81/ 69 PC San Francisco 77/ 56 0 83/ 58 PC 83/ 57 S San Jose 83/ 57 0 91/ 62 S 94/ 61 S San Juan 90/ 79 0.10 90/ 79 PC 89/ 79 PC Seattle 72/ 58 0 77/ 61 C 71/ 60 C Sioux Falls 80/ 65 1.27 73/ 53 T 72/ 56 W Spokane 70/ 51 0 75/ 56 PC 72/ 54 PC St. Louis 93/ 75 0 93/ 74 S 84/ 65 PC St. Thomas 90/ 80 0.03 89/ 80 PC 90/ 80 Sh Syracuse 82/ 60 0.24 68/ 52 R 74/ 60 C Tampa 93/ 77 0 94/ 78 T 91/ 78 PC Toledo 88/ 70 0 82/ 67 T 85/ 60 T Tucson 93/ 71 0 97/ 73 S 102/ 76 S Tulsa 92/ 74 0 90/ 70 T 85/ 71 PC Virginia Beach 83/ 70 0 87/ 72 S 76/ 70 R Washington 94/ 74 0 92/ 70 T 76/ 68 Sh Wichita 91/ 71 0 85/ 61 T 84/ 66 PC Wilmington, Del. 90/ 72 0 87/ 63 T 74/ 63 Sh Africa Yesterday Today Tomorrow

Asia/Pacific Yesterday Today Tomorrow

Algiers 75/ 58 0.77 83/ 68 PC 91/ 72 PC Cairo 92/ 73 0 94/ 74 S 93/ 72 S Cape Town 66/ 54 0 60/ 47 Sh 61/ 45 PC Dakar 88/ 78 0 88/ 80 S 88/ 80 PC Johannesburg 79/ 51 0 78/ 50 S 79/ 53 S Nairobi 79/ 57 0.04 79/ 54 PC 81/ 55 PC Tunis 85/ 67 0 87/ 72 PC 87/ 68 S

Baghdad 103/ 73 0 104/ 73 S 104/ 73 S Bangkok 93/ 79 0.01 96/ 80 C 94/ 78 Sh Beijing 77/ 63 0 79/ 63 PC 77/ 59 Sh Damascus 93/ 64 0 93/ 63 S 93/ 64 S Hong Kong 92/ 81 0.02 92/ 83 S 92/ 81 PC Jakarta 91/ 71 0 91/ 73 PC 90/ 73 PC Jerusalem 83/ 65 0 81/ 64 S 82/ 67 S Karachi 94/ 83 0 93/ 83 PC 93/ 81 S Manila 84/ 77 0.38 86/ 76 Sh 87/ 77 T Mumbai 85/ 79 0.46 85/ 79 Sh 84/ 78 Sh

South America Yesterday Today Tomorrow

North America Yesterday Today Tomorrow

Europe Yesterday Today Tomorrow

New Delhi 100/ 81 0 96/ 81 PC 96/ 80 PC Riyadh 102/ 77 0 105/ 76 S 106/ 79 S Seoul 85/ 70 0.10 75/ 64 Sh 81/ 67 PC Shanghai 89/ 77 0 87/ 74 PC 89/ 74 S Singapore 92/ 80 0 90/ 80 PC 91/ 80 PC Sydney 68/ 48 0 79/ 54 PC 68/ 54 S Taipei City 97/ 81 0 94/ 80 S 94/ 79 S Tehran 89/ 65 0 84/ 63 S 82/ 61 S Tokyo 90/ 79 0.43 85/ 70 PC 79/ 70 C

Amsterdam 64/ 52 1.65 68/ 60 PC 66/ 46 PC Athens 86/ 71 0 87/ 72 S 84/ 72 S Berlin 72/ 46 0 71/ 53 PC 71/ 45 PC Brussels 64/ 50 0.18 73/ 59 PC 69/ 48 PC Budapest 77/ 49 0 79/ 55 PC 79/ 57 S Copenhagen 64/ 54 0.25 66/ 54 PC 62/ 51 Sh Dublin 64/ 57 0.21 68/ 44 R 61/ 45 PC Edinburgh 63/ 56 0.34 61/ 47 R 61/ 48 PC Frankfurt 72/ 44 0 75/ 54 PC 75/ 51 PC Geneva 72/ 51 0 75/ 55 PC 78/ 56 S Helsinki 64/ 56 0.46 63/ 53 Sh 61/ 42 Sh Istanbul 82/ 71 0 81/ 69 C 80/ 70 W Kiev 79/ 50 0 81/ 52 PC 81/ 57 PC Lisbon 81/ 60 0 90/ 70 PC 85/ 66 PC London 71/ 54 0.03 75/ 56 PC 70/ 49 PC Madrid 79/ 53 0 86/ 63 PC 76/ 61 R Moscow 79/ 54 0 77/ 55 S 73/ 54 PC Nice 79/ 64 0 80/ 68 PC 80/ 69 S Oslo 57/ 54 0.57 61/ 45 Sh 61/ 43 PC Paris 77/ 51 0 77/ 60 PC 76/ 56 PC Prague 70/ 47 0 69/ 54 PC 72/ 50 PC Rome 83/ 59 0 84/ 60 PC 85/ 61 PC St. Petersburg 72/ 60 0.04 70/ 55 PC 61/ 48 R Stockholm 64/ 55 0.22 65/ 51 PC 61/ 42 Sh Vienna 74/ 51 0 74/ 55 PC 77/ 58 PC Warsaw 73/ 51 0 75/ 55 PC 73/ 48 PC

Acapulco 94/ 78 0 89/ 77 T 88/ 78 T Bermuda 86/ 78 0.07 85/ 77 PC 85/ 79 PC Edmonton 55/ 43 0 68/ 46 S 63/ 43 PC Guadalajara 78/ 61 0.18 81/ 61 T 80/ 59 T Havana 91/ 72 0.05 88/ 72 T 88/ 73 T Kingston 91/ 78 0 90/ 79 T 91/ 79 T Martinique 90/ 76 0.02 89/ 75 PC 90/ 76 Sh Mexico City 74/ 57 0.18 73/ 55 T 72/ 55 T Monterrey 88/ 72 0 90/ 72 PC 85/ 68 PC Montreal 77/ 62 0.19 68/ 47 PC 70/ 55 PC Nassau 87/ 78 0.15 86/ 77 T 85/ 78 T Panama City 90/ 76 0.15 87/ 76 T 85/ 75 T Quebec City 60/ 52 0.35 66/ 41 S 64/ 49 S Santo Domingo 91/ 75 0.05 92/ 75 T 92/ 75 T Toronto 80/ 68 0.14 66/ 56 R 70/ 61 R Vancouver 65/ 55 0 66/ 58 R 68/ 57 R Winnipeg 59/ 46 0 56/ 48 R 55/ 39 Sh

Buenos Aires 61/ 45 0 64/ 42 S 65/ 47 C Caracas 87/ 76 0.17 87/ 76 T 87/ 76 T Lima 65/ 60 0 64/ 59 PC 64/ 58 PC Quito 73/ 49 0.04 73/ 55 R 74/ 55 C Recife 82/ 75 0.07 83/ 74 Sh 83/ 73 PC Rio de Janeiro 82/ 73 0 93/ 72 PC 79/ 71 Sh Santiago 65/ 42 0 76/ 43 S 75/ 43 S

From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20 nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New York Harbor. Wind will be from the north, then east at 7-14 knots. Waves will be 2-3 feet on the ocean and a foot or less on Long Island Sound and on New York Harbor. Visibility under 3 miles in a a shower or storm.

Atlantic City .................... 7:10 a.m. .............. 7:24 p.m. Barnegat Inlet ................. 7:18 a.m. .............. 7:32 p.m. The Battery ..................... 8:03 a.m. .............. 8:15 p.m. Beach Haven .................. 8:47 a.m. .............. 9:01 p.m. Bridgeport .................... 10:59 a.m. ............ 11:15 p.m. City Island ..................... 11:35 a.m. ............ 11:50 p.m. Fire Island Lt. .................. 8:15 a.m. .............. 8:29 p.m. Montauk Point ................ 8:35 a.m. .............. 8:54 p.m. Northport ..................... 11:23 a.m. ............ 11:35 p.m. Port Washington ........... 11:46 a.m. ......................... --- Sandy Hook .................... 7:29 a.m. .............. 7:43 p.m. Shinnecock Inlet ............. 7:07 a.m. .............. 7:24 p.m. Stamford ...................... 11:11 a.m. ............ 11:24 p.m. Tarrytown ....................... 9:52 a.m. ............ 10:04 p.m. Willets Point .................. 11:32 a.m. ............ 11:48 p.m.

High Tides

New York City 88/ 69 0

Metropolitan Forecast

TODAY ...................Showers, thunderstorm High 78. Not as warm today, with a cold front south of the area. Varying amounts of clouds are forecast, along with showers and afternoon thunderstorms.

TONIGHT ....................Rain and drizzle early Low 63. As a storm continues to move away from the area, there will be rain and drizzle in the evening. It will be dry overnight, with lingering clouds.

TOMORROW ...................Decreasing clouds High 70. Behind a storm, it will not be as warm or humid. Considerable amounts of clouds in the morning will give way to some sunshine in the afternoon.

SATURDAY .................Warmer, more humid High pressure will be sliding off to the east of the area. This will allow for a warmer and more humid day, with clouds and some sunshine.

SUNDAY MONDAY .............................Some sunshine Sunday will be a warmer day, with a mostly sunny sky and a high of 82. Mon- day will remain rather warm, along with a partly sunny sky and a high of 83.

Showers and thunderstorms over the Mid-Atlantic will be the dividing line be- tween air masses in the East today. A cooler air mass will settle over New Eng- land and will promote largely dry and fall-like conditions across the region. Hot and humid air will continue in the Southeast. A strong storm moving across the northern Plains will bring another round of rain and thunderstorms to the region. The risk of flooding will increase across the area, while storms can be- come severe, producing damaging winds, hail and isolated tornadoes. In the West, an area of high pressure will begin to build over the region, and temperatures will begin to trend upward. Overall, the region will be dry, but a storm approaching the Pacific Northwest may produce some showers.

A front will bring a partly sunny sky with showers or thunderstorms from Long Island and the Jersey Shore south. Far- ther north across New England, a cooler and less humid day will prevail, with varying amounts of clouds and sunshine. Spotty showers cannot be ruled out over southern New England.

WASHINGTON — One immi-
grant went to California as a child
to participate in a drug study that
has helped Americans survive
with a rare genetic disease. An-
other, an adolescent girl from
Spain, was told by a cardiologist
that she must remain in Boston to
receive critical care for which her
family borrowed thousands of dol-
lars. A teenage boy with cystic fi-
brosis arrived in the United States
“literally dying,” he said, but now
has a new lease on life.
On Wednesday, the immigrants
told a House Oversight subcom-
mittee why it was imperative that
they remain in the country, de-
spite the Trump administration’s
abrupt elimination of a program
that had enabled them to receive
lifesaving medical care without
the fear of deportation.
The fate of the immigrants, who
all came to the United States le-
gally, remains unclear more than
a month after they were first in-
formed by letter that they would
have to leave — only to be told
early this month that the govern-
ment would reconsider.
“If I’m sent back, I will die,” Ma-
ria Isabel Bueso, 24, of Guatema-
la, told lawmakers on Wednesday.
At three feet tall, sitting in a
wheelchair, she was a sympathet-
ic witness.

The unannounced termination on Aug. 7 of the so-called deferred action program, except for mili- tary personnel, generated public outrage and drew sharp rebuke from the medical establishment. The New York Times revealed that Ms. Bueso had been ordered to leave the country in 33 days or face deportation. Ms. Bueso came to the United States when she was 7 to participate in a clinical trial for a drug to treat Mucopolysaccharidosis Type 6, known as MPS 6, an en- zyme disease that causes dwarf- ism, cardiac arrest and blindness, among other ailments. The drug, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration, has helped extend by a decade the lives of people like her. She continues to receive weekly drug treatment and participate in medical studies. Last month, United States Citi- zenship and Immigration Serv- ices, without public notice, began sending letters to immigrants like her telling them that it was no longer accepting requests for “deferred action,” renewable every two years. On Labor Day, the agency backtracked and an- nounced that cases pending on Aug. 7 would be reconsidered. It also said that deportation pro- ceedings had not been initiated

against anyone who had received the letter. However, it has not yet said whether the government will continue to grant immigrants the op- portunity to stay in the country. It has also not clarified how appli- cants who need to file extensions must proceed. In response, Democrats called an emergency hearing, seeking answers about the origin, ratio- nale and revision of the program. They received little information. “I have clients with sick children now who need access to the program but can’t apply,” said An- thony Marino, an immigration lawyer who represents children receiving treatment for cancer, ce- rebral palsy and muscular dystro- phy. “What is going to happen to people who fell on the wrong side of Aug. 7? We haven’t received a denial or anything about new procedures in place. We just don’t know,” said Mr. Marino, who is the director of the Irish International Immigrant Center in Boston, which has 19 clients who require deferred action to survive. The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and Law- yers for Civil Rights on Sept. 5 filed a lawsuit challenging the termination of the policy on behalf of the center.

According to the lawsuit, the elimination of the policy without public comment or standard regu- latory procedures violated the Ad- ministrative Procedure Act as well as the guarantee of equal protection in the Constitution. Absent from Wednesday’s hearing was Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, the acting chief of Citizenship and Immigration Services, whose recent initiatives include efforts to speed up asylum screenings and to make it harder for children of some active service members born abroad to secure citizenship. Instead, a career official, Daniel Renaud, the associate director for field operations, appeared to take questions, which he largely de- clined to answer, citing the con- tinuing litigation. “You cannot answer the genesis of this policy?” Representative Ayanna S. Pressley, Democrat of Massachusetts, asked after failing to elicit responses to her questions. “I am an operator; I am not a policymaker,” Mr. Renaud said at one point. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, apologized to the witnesses “on behalf of the United States of America for the dehumanizing policies that” had brought them before the House panel.

Mr. Renaud said the agency received 1,000 applications annually for deferred action. About 424 cases had been reopened since the government decided to reconsider the policy, he added. For those caught in the middle, the stakes are high. “It’s a rela- tively small program but for the individual who receives deferred action, it is lifesaving protection,” said Shoba Wadhia, an immigration scholar at Penn State Law, who testified and wrote a book on the history of deferred action. In August, Citizenship and Im- migration Services had said that any decisions going forward

would have to be made by Immi- gration and Customs Enforce- ment. ICE officials then told The Times that it was not their agency’s role to offer deferred action relief and that they had not been consulted about taking on such a role. Ms. Bueso is among the immigrants who have received a letter in recent days saying that their cases will be reopened but not whether they need to take any action. “Our future is still in question with no further communication or direction,” Ms. Bueso said.

Seriously Ill Immigrants in Limbo Give Testimony

By MIRIAM JORDAN

Isabel Bueso came to the United States when she was 7 to par-

ticipate in a clinical trial for a drug to treat a rare genetic disease.

ANNA MONEYMAKER/THE NEW YORK TIMES