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Family of deceased inmate whose body was returned without organs wants answers

January 31, 2024 by WDNY Radio

[The full version of this article can be found on Andscape, a sports and culture website owned and operated by ESPN. The Walt Disney Co. is the parent company of ABC News and ESPN.]

(MOBILE, Alabama) — On July 21, 2023, Agolia Moore was already in bed when the chaplain at the Limestone Correctional Facility in Harvest called to inform her that her youngest son, Kelvin Moore, had died from a fentanyl overdose, according to a new report from Andscape. He was 43.

Agolia Moore was devastated by the news. She had spoken with her son that evening and couldn’t believe he died just 90 minutes after they’d gotten off the phone. Then, the chaplain asked her a question that made her even more suspicious about her son’s death.

Six days later, Moore’s body was delivered to his hometown, which is about 350 miles from the prison, Andscape reports. Because he died while in custody, Moore’s body was first sent to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, which conducts autopsies for the Alabama Department of Corrections.

But when Moore’s remains arrived in Mobile, the family’s mortician discovered that someone had taken out most of his internal organs, according to Andscape.

Birmingham civil rights attorney Lauren Faraino is investigating the case of Moore’s missing organs. The controversy has ensnared the university’s medical school, a cherished Alabama institution, which reportedly has been doing autopsies for the state’s prison system since 2006.

“It’s a systematic abuse situation,” Faraino told Andscape in an interview. “UAB has been taking the organs of incarcerated people without family consent for years now, and we have a handful of families that have come forward who discovered that their loved ones were returned without their organs.

“But so many of these cases went completely unnoticed because families don’t typically think they need to do a second autopsy. Many of them can’t afford it, even if they wanted to.”

Alabama has had the deadliest prisons in the nation for years. Moore was one of 337 inmates to die behind the walls of the state’s notoriously unsafe and draconian correctional facilities from October 2022 to October 2023, according to the Department of Corrections per Andscape reporting. Moore had been incarcerated since 1999 on two counts of attempted murder among other felonies.

During the reporting of this story Andscape interviewed two of the university’s former medical students, who say they discovered that hospital school personnel were retaining some inmate organs without family consent in 2018.

The former university students interviewed by Andscape, who asked not to be named for fear it could hurt their careers, said their complaints about the university using cadaver organs without consent led to an ethics committee hearing on the issue in September 2018. The former students said school administrators told them they had permission to harvest prisoner organs because they had a sign-off from wardens in the facilities where the inmates died.

In July 2021, a bill signed by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey went into effect designed to prevent forensic personnel from retaining organs after autopsies without permission from next of kin.

“It was very, very clear – a medical examiner may not take an organ without family consent,” Faraino told Andscape.

In response to questions from Andscape, the university released a statement that said it had followed applicable laws regarding handling organs during the autopsy process.

“We only conduct autopsies with consent or authorization,” the statement said. “The autopsy practice is accredited by the College of American Pathologists and staffed by credentialed physicians who are certified by the American Board of Pathology. In an autopsy, organs and tissues are removed to best determine the cause of death. Autopsy consent includes consent for final disposition of the organs and tissues. UAB is among providers that – consistent with Alabama law – conduct autopsies of persons at the direction of the State of Alabama.”

Simone Moore, one of Kelvin Moore’s brothers, told Andscape that he believes what happened to Moore’s organs is “thievery.”

“You cannot just arbitrarily open someone up and take what you want out of their body,” he said. “It’s just an atrocious act to know you’ve done that without our permission and we would not have agreed to it on any terms. We don’t want this to happen to another family and it could be anyone, because everyone knows someone that’s incarcerated.”

Agolia Moore added, “But they just got the wrong family this time.”

‘We caused the problem’: Boeing CEO takes accountability for Alaska Airlines door plug incident

January 31, 2024 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun took responsibility for a door plug getting blown out of an Alaska Airlines flight over Oregon earlier this month in the company’s fourth quarter earnings call Wednesday.

“We caused the problem,” Calhoun said.

Calhoun said that while the company reported its fourth quarter and 2023 results, “my focus is on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 and the actions we are taking as a company to earn the confidence of our customers, the confidence of our regulators and the flying public.”

“Boeing is accountable for what happened,” Calhoun said. “Whatever the specific cause of the accident might turn out to be, an event like this must simply not happen on an airplane that leaves one of our factories. We simply must be better. Our customers deserve better.”

Calhoun said he expects results from the National Transportation Safety Board investigation in “relatively short order.”

Calhoun said Boeing instituted additional quality controls and inspections, issued bulletins to suppliers to strengthen the focus on performance and reduce the risk of quality escapes, opened factories to 737 operators for additional oversight, appointed a quality adviser to conduct a comprehensive and independent review of Boeing’s commercial airplane quality management system and paused 737 production for a day “at a scale we have never done before” to address quality.

Calhoun said the company will “encourage and reward employees for speaking up.”

Boeing currently produces 38 737s per month, and the company will maintain that scale due to restrictions from the Federal Aviation Administration.

Boeing did not issue a financial outlook for 2024.

“Now is not the time for that,” Calhoun said.

Boeing made $22 billion in revenue in the fourth quarter and $77 billion in 2023, according to financial statements.

Alaska Airlines resumed flying the Boeing 737 Max 9 following fleet inspections for the first time on Friday.

Atmospheric river to bring two dangerous storms to California

January 31, 2024 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — A powerful Pacific jet stream is bringing two dangerous storms fueled by an atmospheric river to the West Coast, the first of which arrives on Wednesday.

Seven western states from Washington to New Mexico are on alert for flooding, strong winds and heavy snow, with California bracing for a major impact.

The rain will reach the San Francisco Bay area around noon Wednesday.

The rainfall will grow heavier throughout the afternoon and will likely be at its heaviest around 7 p.m. Flash flooding, mudslides and strong winds are possible.

The rain starts in Los Angeles Wednesday night into Thursday morning, with the heaviest rain falling on Thursday morning. Flash flooding, mudslides and rock slides are possible.

The heavy rain and potential flash flooding will reach San Diego later on Thursday morning.

The Sierra Nevada mountain range could see 1 to 3 feet of snow while mountains in Southern California could get 1 to 2 feet of snow.

Some of this Pacific atmospheric energy moves into the Rockies Thursday afternoon into Friday, dropping heavy snow in Utah, Colorado and New Mexico.

The second storm will hit California on Sunday, bringing even more heavy rain and strong winds from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

This storm may stall off the coast, pummeling California with rain through Thursday.

Flooding and mudslides are a significant threat for Southern California.

Trial begins for former Ohio sheriff’s deputy in 2020 shooting death of Casey Goodson Jr.

January 31, 2024 by WDNY Radio

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Opening statements began Wednesday in the trial of a former sheriff’s deputy charged in the 2020 fatal shooting of a 23-year-old Black man who was entering his grandmother’s home in Columbus, Ohio. The trial begins more than three years after Casey Goodson Jr.’s death.

Jason Meade, a former deputy with the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO), was charged with murder and reckless homicide in December 2021 in connection with the shooting. Meade, who is white, has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

“Six shots in the back,” special prosecutor Gary Shroyer said in his opening statement Wednesday. “All fired by the defendant into the back of Casey Goodson with no reasonable basis for the defendant to perceive a threat by Casey. It’s an unjustified shooting. Casey was only 23 years old at the time the defendant killed him. [Meade] was a Franklin County County Deputy at the time. Casey’s death is a tremendous loss to his family.”

Defense attorney Kaitlyn Stephens said in her opening statement, “Now with the benefit of hindsight, nobody here in this courtroom is disputing how tragic the events were, on December 4, 2020. And it is not lost on us that somebody lost a life, somebody lost a son, a brother and a friend.”

Addressing the jury, Stephens asked that “you remind yourself of that instruction that the judge gave you … that as you took that oath as a juror, you are not to consider sympathy or empathy when you analyze that case. And so every time they play it, remind yourself of what the law requires.”

On Dec. 4, 2020, Meade was working with a U.S. Marshals task force searching for a wanted fugitive when he claims he saw Goodson waving a gun erratically from inside his car and then began tracking Meade, according to a December 2021 statement from Meade’s lawyers.

The former deputy claims he then followed Goodson home. Meade alleges that Goodson had a pistol in his right hand and a plastic bag in his left hand as he stood outside the door of his grandmother’s house, where he lived. Meade said he screamed at Goodson several times to show his hands but his commands were ignored, according to his attorneys’ statement.

When Goodson eventually turned to face the former deputy, Meade alleges Goodson pointed the barrel of the gun in Meade’s direction, so the deputy fired his weapon. Meade’s legal team declined ABC News’ request for comment Tuesday.

Police said a gun was found at the scene, but Goodson’s family said he was a legal gun owner. Goodson’s family claims he was returning from a dentist’s appointment, carrying a Subway sandwich and was wearing AirPods when Meade approached him and didn’t hear the officer’s commands.

Because Franklin County Sheriff’s task force officers are not issued body cameras, no video of the incident exists.

An autopsy report by the Franklin County Coroner’s Office said Goodson had been shot five times in the back and six times in total.

Nearly a year after the fatal shooting, on Dec. 2, 2021, a grand jury announced they had found enough evidence to charge Meade with two counts of murder and one count of reckless homicide in the shooting death of Goodson.

Following news of the indictment, Franklin County Sheriff Dallas Baldwin released a statement saying, in part, “I’ve reminded my staff that while everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty, the standards for being a Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputy must be even higher than that of our criminal justice system.”

Meade retired after 17 years with the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office in June 2021. Meade had been on administrative leave since the shooting, according to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office. The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to ABC News’ requests for comment.

Police searching for Oregon woman wanted for husband’s murder

January 31, 2024 by WDNY Radio

(PORTLAND, Ore.) — Portland, Oregon police are asking for the public’s help to find a woman wanted for her husband’s murder.

On Friday morning, officers responded to a missing persons report and found 37-year-old Phillip Pierce shot dead inside a home in Portland’s Lents neighborhood, police said.

Police initially said no suspects were located.

On Tuesday, police identified Pierce’s wife, Analiesa Golde, as the suspect, and said she was wanted for second-degree murder.

Golde’s whereabouts are unknown and she should be considered armed and dangerous, according to police.

She may be driving a burnt orange 2015 Toyota 4Runner with Oregon license plate 501HSB, police said.

Anyone who sees her is asked to call 911.

House to vote on bipartisan tax bill that would expand child tax credit

January 31, 2024 by WDNY Radio

(WASHINGTON) — After long negotiations, the House is set to vote Wednesday on a bipartisan tax bill that would enhance the popular Child Tax Credit to benefit millions of American families.

The $78 billion tax package called the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 would increase the child tax credit and restore critical research and development deductions. It includes new low-income housing tax credits and disaster tax relief and tax benefits for Taiwan. If passed, the changes would be in effect through 2025 when previous Republican tax cuts expire.

Despite overwhelming support for the bipartisan bill in the House, there are still several issues lawmakers have with the legislation, including the child tax credit and state and local tax deductions.

Several New York Republicans (Reps. Nick LaLota, Mike Lawler, Anthony D’Esposito and Andrew Garbarino) were angered that the tax bill does not have state and local tax deduction limits — also known as SALT provisions. This is a top priority for New York lawmakers. Speaker Mike Johnson met with this group late Tuesday to discuss SALT provisions.

Meanwhile several conservatives including members from the far-right House Freedom Caucus (Reps. Bob Good and Byron Donalds) criticized the bill for expanding the child tax credit. Many liberal Democrats will vote against the bill because they argue the bill does not expand child tax credit enough.

Clearly not all lawmakers will get what they want. However, this legislation — if passed in the House — would be a rare bipartisan win.

The tax bill was negotiated by Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden of Oregon and House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith of Missouri. It passed with bipartisan support out of the House Ways and Means Committee on Jan. 19 by a vote of 40-3.

The vote, expected to occur between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., will be fast-tracked and voted on under suspension of the rules, which requires two-thirds vote to pass.

The bill’s fate is uncertain in the Senate.

Five asylum-seekers arrested for assault on police officers in Times Square

January 31, 2024 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — Five asylum-seekers have been arrested on charges they assaulted police officers in Midtown Manhattan, the New York City Police Department said.

The assault occurred Saturday afternoon near Times Square as officers were trying to take a person into custody.

According to police, officers attempted to disperse a disorderly group on West 42nd Street when a physical altercation occurred. When officers attempted to place an individual in custody, the suspects began to kick and punch the officers, according to the NYPD. The suspects then fled.

The officers sustained minor injuries and were treated on scene.

The suspects were identified Wednesday as Yorman Reveron, 24; Darwin Andres Gomez-Izquiel, 19; Wilson Juarez, 21; Kelvin Serita Arocha, 19; and Jhoan Boada, 22.

They face charges including assault on a police officer, disorderly conduct and gang assault.

Studies suggest experimental drug could be alternative to opioids: What to know

January 31, 2024 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — A pharmaceutical company has presented new data for an experimental drug that they say can reduce acute pain, raising the possibility of an alternative to addictive opioids.

In a press release, Vertex says two studies showed that the new drug, VX-548, showed a “clinically meaningful reduction” in pain over a 48-hour period, compared to a placebo. The studies evaluated people who had recently undergone surgery and needed something to treat “acute pain” that lasts a short time.

Vertex described the drug as “safe and well tolerated” in the studies. The study results haven’t yet been vetted as part of the normal scientific review process.

The company plans to ask the Food and Drug Administration for approval of VX-548 in mid-2024 to treat “moderate-to-severe acute pain.”

For decades, researchers have been looking for ways to treat significant pain without using opiate-based painkillers, such as oxycodone, hydrocodone and morphine. Opioids generally work better than other medications for that purpose but also carry the risk of addiction. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid typically used to treat severe pain, is even more powerful and also carries the risk of addiction.

Beginning in the 1990s with the increasingly widespread prescription of pharmaceutical opioids, overdoses from opioid abuse have skyrocketed since. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 220 people in America died each day from an opioid overdose in 2021, which they say is six times the number of opioid overdose deaths in 1999.

VX-548 is an oral medication that works by blocking pain signals in the peripheral nervous system, the area outside the brain and spinal cord. This makes the medication different from opioids, which act on the brain and spinal cord.

Researchers are hopeful this means the drug wouldn’t carry the the same risk of addiction, if studies continue to go well and the drug is ultimately approved.

Israeli Forces may have violated international law in West Bank hospital raid, experts say

January 31, 2024 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — Israeli Forces may have violated international law in the raid they conducted inside a hospital in the West Bank that resulted in the death of three Palestinian men both Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed as members, several experts told ABC News.

Israeli commandos disguised themselves as doctors and patients to infiltrate the Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin on Monday and killed three Palestinian men whom Hamas and the Islamic Jihad both claimed as members, Dr. Wisam Sebehat, general director of the Palestinian Health Ministry in Jenin, told ABC News.

One member of the Israeli group had a wheelchair, two carried a doll in a baby carrier, several wore nurses’ clothing, another wore doctors’ clothing and several others were dressed in civilian clothing, Sebehat said. Doctors and patients are granted “protected status” in armed conflict under the Geneva Convention.

An initial statement from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) described the raid as a “joint IDF, ISA, and Israel Police counterterrorism activity.” The IDF have since clarified to ABC News that their forces were not involved in physically carrying out the operation.

The experts cautioned that ultimately the International Criminal Court is the body that can determine if international law was violated during the raid, but they pointed to elements of the Rome Statute, the governing treaty of the ICC, and the study on the rules of customary international humanitarian law the IDF may have violated in conducting the raid. The United States, along with China, India, Russia — about 40 countries total — did not sign the Rome Statute and are not party to the ICC, according to the Council on Foreign Relations.

The ICC is different from the International Court of Justice, which issued a preliminary ruling last week in a case brought by South Africa against Israel accusing Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians. The ICC can “exercise jurisdiction” in the form of preliminary examination, investigation and, at times, ultimately trials, over “genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes,” it says.

Israel is not a member of the ICC and rejects the court’s jurisdiction, but the ICC prosecutor has investigated Israel’s actions toward Palestinians before.

It’s a violation of international law to feign protected status, in this case, by dressing up as a doctor or patient, “in order to invite the confidence of the adversary and then proceed to kill or injure them,” Aurel Sari, associate professor of public international law at the University of Exeter, told ABC News. This violates the prohibition to kill or injure the adversary by resorting to perfidy, Sari said.

“The rule is part of customary international law in both international and non-international armed conflicts, which means Israel is bound by it,” Sari said.

“Based on what has been reported, it appears that the Israeli forces involved in the operation in the Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin did resort to perfidy in violation of the law of armed conflict,” Sari added.

It’s unclear if the IDF used disguises to gain access to the hospital or to gain the confidence of the adversaries they were targeting directly.

The other possible violation of international law the IDF may have committed in this case is violating the prohibition on attacking combatants who have been incapacitated by wounds or sickness, or attacking persons “hors de combat,” associate professor of international law Tom Dannenbaum told ABC News.

One of the Palestinian men who was killed, Basel Ghazawi, was being treated in the Ibn Sina Hospital and was paralyzed, Sebehat said. The IDF denied the reports that Ghazawi was paralyzed.

Ghazawi had been in the hospital undergoing treatment for three months. He was injured after a drone attack in Jenin in October, Sebehat said. His older brother, Muhammad Ghazawi, and their friend, Muhammed Jalamneh, were in the hospital room with Basel Ghazawi when all three were killed by the Israeli forces, according to Sebehat.

“Combatants who have been incapacitated by wounds or sickness are protected from attack as persons ‘hors de combat,'” under international law, Dannenbaum said. “Clearly, someone who is paralyzed is incapacitated in that respect, so an attack on that individual would be prohibited. Violating that prohibition would be a war crime.”

The IDF accused Jalamneh of transferring weapons and ammunition “to terrorists in order to promote shooting attacks and planned a raid attack inspired by the October 7” Hamas terror attack on Israel, the IDF said in a statement about the raid.

“Along with Jalamneh, two additional terrorists who hid inside the hospital were neutralized,” the IDF said in the statement.

The IDF did not specify why the two other men were killed but said all three men were Hamas operatives.

“For a long time, wanted suspects have been hiding in hospitals and using them as a base for planning terrorist activities and carrying out terror attacks, while they assume that the exploitation of hospitals will serve as protection against counterterrorism activities of Israeli security forces,” the IDF said.

The IDF has repeatedly claimed that Hamas uses hospitals in Gaza to mask terrorist activities. The IDF has said it is only targeting Hamas and other militants in Gaza and alleges that Hamas deliberately shelters behind civilians, which the group denies.

The ICC would ultimately be the body that could determine if a war crime was committed or if international law was violated in this raid. In March 2023, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for crimes related to the invasion of Ukraine.

“To conclude that a war crime has been committed, criminal tribunals avail themselves not rarely of years of investigations and assessments,” Robert Kolb, professor of public international law and international organization at the University of Geneva, told ABC News.

More than 26,000 people have been killed in Gaza and over 65,000 others injured since Oct. 7, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. In Israel, at least 1,200 people have been killed and 6,900 others injured since Oct. 7, according to the Israeli prime minister’s office. Israeli officials say 556 Israel Defense Forces soldiers have been killed, including 221 since the ground operations in Gaza began.

House Republicans bring Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas one step closer to historic impeachment

January 31, 2024 by WDNY Radio

(WASHINGTON) — House Republicans voted early Wednesday to bring Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas one step closer to a historic impeachment over his handling of the country’s southern border.

After more than 10 hours of deliberation, the GOP-led House Homeland Security Committee decided in an 18-15 party-line vote to advance the impeachment articles against Mayorkas. The committee’s chairman, Rep. Mark Green, a Tennessee Republican, said in a statement that Mayorkas “has willfully and systemically refused to comply with the laws enacted by Congress, and he has breached the public trust.”

“His actions created this unprecedented crisis, turning every state into a border state.” Green added. “I am proud of the Committee for advancing these historic articles. I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to do the right thing, put aside the politics, and agree that before we can fix Secretary Mayorkas’ mess, Congress must finally hold this man accountable.”

The issue will now go to the full House of Representatives for a floor vote, despite Democrats saying there’s no proof of high crimes and misdemeanors — the usual bar for impeachment. If the vote to impeach passes in the House, it forces a Senate trial.

If Mayorkas were to be impeached, it would be first of a Cabinet member in nearly 150 years. Only one Cabinet secretary has ever been impeached by the House: William Belknap, who resigned as then-President Ulysses Grant’s secretary of war shortly before the House voted against him in 1876.

Republicans say Mayorkas has failed to enforce the law at the southern border, allowing a flood of migrants into the United States from Mexico. During opening remarks of the hearing on Capital Hill on Tuesday evening, Green said the secretary “put his political preference above the law” and that his “actions have forced our hand.”

“We cannot allow this border crisis to continue,” he added. “We cannot allow fentanyl to flood our border.”

Green referenced the two articles of impeachment the conference released accusing Mayorkas of “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” and “breach of public trust.”

Green called on the committee to push to use Congress’ power of impeachment to “remove those unworthy from office.”

“Secretary Mayorkas is the very type of public official the framers feared as someone who would cast aside the laws by a coequal branch of government, replacing those with his own preferences, hurting his fellow Americans in the process,” Green said.

Ranking Member Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, said “Republicans have failed to make a constitutionally viable case to impeach Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a dedicated public servant.” He called the hearing a “terrible day” for the committee.

“The sham impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas is a baseless political stunt by extreme MAGA Republicans,” Thompson said.

Border security is a top issue in the 2024 elections with all eyes on how the Biden administration handles the surge of migrants crossing the border.

Senate negotiators are working — with Mayorkas’ help — on a bipartisan border security package with a deal in sight. However several in the GOP are threatening to derail the efforts. Former President Donald Trump is throwing cold water on the package, saying Monday that “a border bill is not necessary;” House Speaker Mike Johnson has said the bill appears “dead on arrival” in the House.

New York Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman contended that Republicans are doing Trump’s bidding by undermining a bipartisan negotiations in the Senate with impeachment in the House.

‘The irony of the fact that Secretary Mayorkas has spent the two months plus with a bipartisan group of senators working on legislation that would address the problems at the border should not be lost on anyone,” Goldman said. “You are sitting here right now trying to impeach a secretary of Homeland Security for neglecting his duties literally while he is trying to perform his duties and negotiate legislation.”

“The hypocrisy is the least of it. Your attack on the rule of law and our democracy is the worst of it. You better be careful about the bed that you make,” Goldman warned

Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of Trump’s most ardent supporters in the lower chamber, justified the impeachment effort by questioning Mayorkas’ honesty.

“Congress has responsibility to hold the executive branch accountable when they failed to uphold their oath of office abuse their authority, and or are dishonest with the American people,” she said.

Mayorkas called the impeachment proceedings against him “baseless” and the accusations made against him by the Homeland Security Committee “false” in a nearly seven-page letter to the committee.

Democrats have pushed back against the effort to impeach Mayorkas — with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries slamming the effort.

“Republicans have clearly turned their ever-shrinking majority over to the extremists,” Jeffries said Monday. “And this sham impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas is just another sad example.”

“All they are endeavoring to do with respect to this sham impeachment is to run away from their do-nothing, extreme record, and try to distract the American people with this political stunt,” Jeffries said.

Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee put out a report Monday that contends that House Republicans are abusing their power with the move to impeach. Democrats argue that Mayorkas is upholding the law while Republicans attempt to “sabotage” the administration’s efforts to secure the border — all to help Trump, the Republican front-runner, win the presidency this fall.

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