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tegrity in the program, combat
fraud and abuse, and ensure
the supplemental allocation
aligns with the national inter-
est,” a DHS spokeswoman said.
The additional visas are be-
ing made available ahead of
the summer, when demand for
short-term work is typically
highest. Still, demand has rou-
tinely outstripped the avail-
able cap. Landscapers, fisher-
ies, county fairs and holiday
resorts—including President
Trump’s own golf and beach
clubs—all use the H-2B pro-
gram to fill lower-skilled jobs.
The departments of Home-
land Security and Labor had
for weeks pushed for the cap
to be raised by 45,000 addi-
tional visas this year, more in
line with industry demands.
That higher number of visas
had been approved by the White
House. But the administration
began facing backlash from
groups advocating more immi-gration restrictions after The
Wall Street Journal reported on
the administration’s plan. Ste-
phen Miller, President Trump’s
top immigration adviser, argued
internally that proceeding with
the higher number risked dis-
pleasing the president’s base,
which views immigration skep-
tically, as the election season
ramps up, people familiar with
the discussions said.
The White House didn’t re-
spond to a request for comment.
Thursday’s decision comes
amid a broader debate inside
the Trump administration over
legal immigration, with some
officials arguing American
workers will see wages rise
only if foreign workers are pre-
vented from competing with
them for jobs and undercutting
them, while others believe more
immigrants are needed to sus-
tain the economic growth that
Mr. Trump will put at the cen-
ter of his re-election campaign.U.S. WATCH
alleging that a late doctor sexually
assaulted them while the men
were members of the football and
hockey teams in the 1980s.
The lawsuits mirror the allega-
tions in the first suit filed against
the university over Dr. Robert E.
Anderson. The lawsuits all accuse
the university of failing to re-
move Dr. Anderson despite multi-
ple complaints about him.
Last week, the university
said it had received more than
100 complaints about Dr. Ander-
son. The president has apolo-
gized to “those who were
harmed.”
—Associated PressALABAMAAccomplice Executed
in 3 Officers’ MurdersA man convicted in the 2004
killings of three police officers in
Alabama who were shot by an-
other man was executed Thurs-
day night.
Nathaniel Woods, 43 years
old, was pronounced dead at 9:
p.m. Central Time following a le-
thal injection at the state prison
in Atmore, authorities said. The
inmate had no last words before
the chemicals began flowing, but
appeared to arrange his hands inCHICAGONew Charges Loom
Against R. KellyR&B singer R. Kelly on Thurs-
day pleaded not guilty to an up-
dated federal indictment that in-
cludes child-pornography charges
and allegations involving a new
accuser, while prosecutors said
more charges alleging yet an-
other victim are coming.
The government plans to file
more new charges in the coming
weeks, adding another accuser,
prosecutor Angel Krull said dur-
ing the hearing. She didn’t elabo-
rate except to say agents re-
cently seized more than 100
electronic devices in the case.
Mr. Kelly, who has denied
abusing anyone, faces several
dozen counts of state and federal
sexual misconduct charges in Illi-
nois, Minnesota and New York.
The Grammy-award winning
musician was jailed in July and
has been awaiting trial at a Chi-
cago federal jail a block from the
courthouse where he attends
pretrial hearings. He has partici-
pated in hearings in his New
York case by video. The federal
charges in Chicago accuse Mr.
Kelly of filming himself having
sex with underage girls.
—Associated PressWalt Disney Co.’s share
price increased more than
fivefold during former Chief
Executive Robert Iger’s ten-
ure, which began Sept. 30,- A Feb. 26 Page One ar-
ticle about Mr. Iger relin-
quishing the CEO title incor-
rectly said more than sixfold.
And a graphic showing the
company’s share price and
major entertainment acquisi-
a Muslim sign of faith.
Woods and Kerry Spencer
were convicted of capital murder
and sentenced to death in the
slayings of the three Birming-
ham officers. Carlos Owen, Har-
ley A. Chisolm III and Charles R.
Bennett died while trying to
serve a misdemeanor domestic
assault warrant on Woods at a
suspected drug house.
Prosecutors said Spencer was
the triggerman in the slaying,
opening fire on the officers with
a high-powered rifle inside the
apartment, though Woods was
convicted as an accomplice.
—Associated Presstions was incorrectly labeled
with his tenure beginning at
the start of 2005.The last name of Gen.
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rebel faction called the Lib-
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WASHINGTON—The Trump
administration said it is mak-
ing an additional 35,000 sea-
sonal guest-worker visas avail-
able this year ahead of the
busy summer season, the larg-
est increase since President
Trump took office.
The additional visas an-
nounced Thursday by the De-
partment of Homeland Secu-
rity will bring the total
available this year to 101,000,
though the additional visas
will primarily be made avail-
able to returning workers.
The seasonal-worker visa
program, known as H-2B, en-
ables U.S. employers to hire as
many as 66,000 foreign work-
ers a year, with the allotments
split evenly between the win-
ter and summer seasons. Con-
gress permits the Department
of Homeland Security each
year to raise that cap by as
many as 64,000 additional vi-
sas. This year’s cap is slightly
higher than the 30,000 work-
ers the administration allowed
last year.
DHS is adding new restric-
tions on the additional visas,
which some administration of-
ficials and outside critics of
the move said could limit how
many of the visas will actually
be used.
The visas will become avail-
able to employers in two
tranches: 20,000 immediately
and an additional 15,000 for
employees beginning work on
or after May 15.
Of the 35,000 total, 10,
will be set aside for workers
from Guatemala, Honduras
and El Salvador, the only
countries that will be allowed
to send new applicants. Those
three Central American coun-
tries, collectively known as the
Northern Triangle, accounted
for the majority of asylum
seekers crossing the border il-
legally last year. DHS officials
said that providing these peo-
ple a pathway to work lawfully
in the U.S. will reduce the in-
centive to migrate illegally.
“The department is taking
significant steps to promote in-
BYMICHELLEHACKMAN
Trump Allows More Seasonal Guest Workers
The Trump administration will allow 35,000 additional H-2B visas this year, bringing the total to 101,000. Above, the U.S.-Mexico border crossing inTijuana,GUILLERMO ARIAS/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGESbank. Their elevation was set
out in an emergency succession
plan—known within the bank
as the “Jamie getting hit by a
bus” plan, according to a per-
son familiar with the matter.
Mr. Dimon’s sudden illness
is likely to revive speculation
about when he will step down
from the bank he has led since- The longest-serving
CEO of a U.S. megabank, Mr.
Dimon shepherded JPMorgan
through the financial crisis.
Today, it is the largest U.S.
bank by assets and Mr. Di-
mon—who earned $31.5 mil-
lion in 2019—is paid more
than any of his big-bank peers.
Mr. Dimon has said he is in
no hurry to leave. When asked
about his plans earlier this
year, he said he expected to
retire in five years. It is the
same answer he has given for
at least six years.
“When and if we ever set
an actual retirement date,
we’ll let you know,” he said on
an earnings call with reporters
in January.
If that timeline holds, the
top contenders to succeed him
are Marianne Lake, who runs
JPMorgan’s consumer-lending
business, and Chief Financial
Officer Jennifer Piepszak. The
bank elevated the women last
year in a reshuffling.
Messrs. Pinto and Smith
have long been considered
among the top candidates to
succeed Mr. Dimon if he were to
step down sooner than planned.
“We have been working
hand-in-hand with Jamie and
the Board over the past two
years to help lead our com-
pany,” they said in the memo
to employees.
Mr. Dimon’s illness comes at
a difficult time for JPMorgan,
which, like other big banks, is
grappling with the spread of
the coronavirus epidemic.
Bank stocks have fallen sharply
on fears that the outbreak will
weigh on the U.S. economy,
and the institutions are trying
to figure out when and where
to move staff to make sure
they can keep trading.
Continued from Page OneICE Agents Sent
To Sanctuary CitiesU.S. Immigration and Cus-
toms Enforcement is ramping up
its enforcement efforts in 10
sanctuary cities, redeploying 500
investigators to increase surveil-
lance and help arrest people liv-
ing in the country illegally.
These agents, who typically
work on complex long-term in-
vestigations, have been reas-
signed by ICE leadership to as-
sist in the operation, set to run
through the end of the year in
cities that decline to assist in
federal immigration enforce-
ment, including New York, Chi-
cago and San Francisco.
Agents with Homeland Se-
curity Investigations, a law-en-
forcement agency within ICE,
began to be pulled off activeinvestigations at the Justice
Department in the past week—
including those focusing on hu-
man trafficking, child pornogra-
phy and cybercrime cases—and
redeployed to the initiative.
The redeployment was re-
ported earlier by the New York
Times.
The shift comes weeks af-
ter a separate decision to tem-
porarily redeploy 100 officers
and agents with U.S. Customs
and Border Protection, includ-
ing several tactical border pa-
trol units, to assist with the ar-
rest operation.
Henry Lucero, who heads
Enforcement and Removal Op-
erations, the ICE arm that car-
ries out deportations, said the
need for increased personnel to
arrest immigrants in sanctuary
communities is a direct re-
sponse to policies preventing
local officials from notifying ICEwhen they plan to release un-
authorized immigrants from
law-enforcement custody.
ICE’s arrest efforts have
been stymied in recent years by
uncooperative police agencies
and by immigration advocates’
efforts to inform people about
their rights in such situations.
Sanctuary jurisdictions—cit-
ies and states that restrain
their law-enforcement officials’
ability to cooperate with fed-
eral immigration enforcement—
argue the administration’s fo-
cus on them is discriminatory
and that greater coordination
with ICE would discourage im-
migrants from working with lo-
cal law-enforcement, making
their communities less safe.
The dispute between these
jurisdictions and the Trump ad-
ministration has escalated in
recent months.
—Michelle HackmanDimon Has
Emergency
Surgery
MASSACHUSETTS
Boston Massacre’s
Anniversary Marked
Ceremonies and a protest
marked the 250th anniversary
Thursday of the massacre in
Boston that helped spark the
Revolutionary War.
A wreath was laid at the
grave of the five victims of the
fateful conflict, and colonial re-
enactors fired their muskets in
salute during a morning tribute
organized by the Daughters of
the American Revolution. The
event is the first of a number
expected to take place across
the country in the coming years
to mark the anniversary of the
war for independence.
In the afternoon, black and
Native American activists staged
a “death procession” from the
massacre site to Faneuil Hall to
protest “persistent racism” in
Boston and elsewhere.
Protesters renewed calls for
the hall to be renamed in honor
of Crispus Attucks, a man of Af-
rican-American and Native
American descent who was the
first person killed in the Boston
Massacre.
The Boston Massacre took
place on March 5, 1770, as a
mob attacked a British soldier in
front of the downtown Customs
House on a snowy evening.
—Associated Press
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Ex-Athletes Allege
Assault by Doctor
Three former athletes at the
University of Michigan filed law-
suits Thursday against the school,
Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney John Lewin, in his opening statement, told jurors that real-estate heir Robert Durst shot
Susan Berman point-blank in December 2000. Mr. Durst is on trial, accused of the murder of Ms. Berman in her Beverly Hills home.ROBYN BECK/PRESS POOL