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A moveable fortress
When presidents go home for the weekend — as President Obama and his family did for the Memorial Day holiday — so does the fortress that surrounds them. And when home is a huge city like Chicago, it’s a massive production that involves blocking off streets and securing multiple locations as POTUS hops from one place to the other. For President Obama, that’s the gym at his daughters’ school, his favorite barbershop and restaurants like Table Fifty-Two, where he took first lady Michelle Obama on Valentine’s Day less then a month into his term. Helicopters help avoid some traffic jams (Marine One landed at Soldier Field Friday night), but neighbors are out of luck year round, as the Secret Service keeps a constant eye on what amounts to the “Chicago White House.”
— By Karen Yourish and Michael D. Shear
Go to
www.washingtonpost.com for an interactive map of Obama’s favorite Chicago spots.
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When Obama is in Chicago:
Obama’s street — Greenwood Ave. — and Hyde Park Blvd. are closed to all traffic except for residents, their guests and visitors to the KAM Isaiah Israel temple. No street parking is allowed.
When Obama is not in Chicago:
Greenwood Ave. is closed, and street parking is allowed.
Ill. Senate candidate admits to error on Navy award
by R. Jeffrey Smith
The Republican candidate for
President Obama’s old Senate seat inaccurately claimed to have received the U.S. Navy’s Intelli- gence Officer of the Year award for service during NATO’s con- flict with Serbia in the late 1990s. Rep. Mark Kirk, a Navy reserv-
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ist elected to Congress in 2001, acknowledged the error in his of- ficial biography after The Wash- ington Post began looking into whether he had received the pres- tigious award, which is given by top Navy officials to a single indi- vidual annually. The Post’s in- quiries were sparked by com- plaints from a representative of state Treasurer Alexi Giannou- lias, Kirk’s Democratic opponent in the Illinois Senate race. Kirk, an Appropriations Com-
The Secret Service has been known to use the restrooms in the temple across the street from Obama’s house.
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mittee member, changed his Web site last week to incorporate a dif- ferent account of the award. Kirk wrote on his blog that “upon a re- cent review of my records, I found that an award listed in my official biography was misidenti- fied” and that the award he had intended to list was given to his entire unit.
A professional group, the Na-
tional Military Intelligence Asso- ciation, gave Kirk’s unit — based in Aviano, Italy — an award for outstanding service in 2000. The association’s Vice Admiral Rufus L. Taylor Award celebrates “the exceptional achievements of an outstanding Naval Intelligence career professional,” but the cita- tion does not mention Kirk and instead designates the entire In- telligence Division Electronic At- tack Wing at Aviano.
Kirk, whose campaign has em- phasized his military service as a reservist, similarly misidentified the award during a House com- mittee hearing in March 2002. In a remark recorded by C-SPAN, he said, “I was the Navy’s Intelli- gence Officer of the Year.” Eric Elk, a spokesman for
Kirk’s campaign, would say only that “we found the award was misidentified and corrected the name.” Kathleen Strand, a spokes- woman for Giannoulias, said Fri- day that Kirk “is lying or embel- lishing his military record.” Kirk and Giannoulias are in a
tight race. Giannoulias has been hobbled by federal regulators’ seizure last month of his family’s bank.
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Goodman Theater The First Couple may take in a play at this historic theater.
Medici Restaurant The
neighborhood pizza joint is Michelle Obama’s favorite.
University of Chicago Lab Schools
Obama played hoops here Saturday.
57th Street Books Site of Obama’s
first book readings.
SOURCE: Image of Obama’s neighborhood by Pictometry; satellite image by GeoEye via GoogleEarth; restaurant photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post; all other photos by Associated Press. LAURA STANTON AND NATHANIEL VAUGHN KELSO/THE WASHINGTON POST
Illegal migrants gravitate to Ariz. border
Continuing flow fueling fresh fight over policy at leakiest sector in U.S.
by Peter Slevin
nogales, ariz. — Along a rug- ged stretch of the Mexican border here in southern Arizona, U.S. au- thorities captured 687 illegal im- migrants in a 24-hour period last week, three times the number captured near San Diego. During the past eight months, agents have apprehended 168,000 mi- grants along this sector of the bor- der. The border crossers are so de- termined, and so impervious to a long-running buildup of federal agents and technology, that few here think President Obama’s re- cent decision to dispatch 1,200 National Guard soldiers and $500 million will make much dif- ference.
“I doubt it, frankly,” said Don
Severe, a vocal opponent of illegal immigration who favors stronger measures, including certain in- carceration. “It sounds good, but what are they going to do? We have a very serious problem.” Arizona, home of a controver-
sial new law that makes it a state crime to be in the country illegal- ly, has become the leakiest por- tion of the nearly 2,000-mile bor- der. The continuing flow of illegal immigrants, compounded by a rise in narcotics traffic and the slaying of an Arizona rancher, perhaps by a border crosser, has triggered a fresh fight over immi- gration policy, animating activ- ities on both sides of the debate. On Saturday, as thousands ral- lied in Phoenix for and against the new law, Gov. Jan Brewer (R) sought to remove Attorney Gener-
al Terry Goddard (D) from de- fending Arizona against expected legal challenges. Although Brewer said she feared that Goddard would collude with the Obama administration, which is weigh- ing such a challenge, Goddard said he would faithfully represent the state despite personal opposi- tion to the law. Meanwhile, Re- publican politicians, led by Brew- er and Sen. John McCain, are call- ing for stricter border security measures. The issue has polarized the community in ways that residents say are disturbing. “I have seen situations in fami- lies where they are fighting,” said the Rev. Vili Valderrama, a priest at San Felipe de Jesus parish in heavily Hispanic Nogales. He said benefactors who support the law have vowed to withhold contribu- tions from the Tucson Catholic Di- ocese because clergy publicly op- pose it. “There are not a lot of places in this community where you can have a civil dialogue,” said the Rev. Randy Mayer, pastor of Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita, 50 miles north of Nogales. “The conversa- tion has changed in its tone. It has become much more polarized, much more hostile.” Nogales is the heart of a 262- mile stretch of border defined by sharp rises, steep ravines and bru- tal desert heat. As border controls are tightened elsewhere, includ- ing through the construction of a border fence in parts of Arizona, California, Texas and New Mexi- co, Mexican migrants and smug- glers have gravitated to the 90,000-square-mile area known by U.S. Customs and Border Pro- tection as the Tucson Sector. “When you plug a hole in the wall, the water looks for another spot to flow through. Arizona is
that spot,” said Nogales police chief Jeff Kirkham, who reported that immigrants are “going over the wall, going through the wall or through tunnels.” Others try to make their way though the remote desert where the high fence stops. Once across the border, they face a daunting trek that can stretch 30 miles or more in heat approaching 100 de- grees. Agents staff checkpoints and crisscross the area, supported by millions of dollars worth of sensors, cameras, surveillance air- craft and computer technology. Since 2006, staffing of the Tuc-
son Sector has increased 30 per- cent, to about 3,200 officers. But immigrants from across the globe keep coming over the border — alone or in groups, sometimes guided by smugglers, sometimes arriving at official crossings neat- ly dressed and with fake papers. On a typical day, nearly 1mil- lion people cross from Mexico into the United States, according to U.S. government figures. About 270,000 vehicles cross the South- west border every 24 hours, along with about 57,000 truck, rail and sea containers. Sixty percent of the Mexican fruit and vegetables entering the United States comes through Nogales. “This is our busy time of year,” said Robert L. Boatright, deputy chief of the Tucson Sector, talking about illegal immigrants, not pro- duce. He said it would be impos- sible to “seal the border,” as some critics demand. “The number of agents it would take 24-7 would be incredible.” Border agents have “close to
daily” encounters with smugglers with guns, most linked to drug smuggling, he said. In announc- ing the National Guard deploy- ment, which echoes earlier ap- proaches, Obama emphasized the need to slow the drugs flowing
north and the guns and cash heading south to the cartels wag- ing war on Mexican state author- ity.
By the same token, the number of captured border crossers — an indication of the volume of people who are getting though illegally — dropped 41 percent between 2005 and 2009. The border is at “an un- precedented state of control,” Boatright said. “I know that’s hard to believe with what you see and read right now.”
Although the flow of drugs ap- pears to be rising, Kirkham said, Nogales’s 64 police officers are not seeing a spillover of violence from Mexico. Property crimes have been static, and Nogales has had just one homicide in the past three years. “People that do cross here, they want to get out of this area as quickly and quietly as pos- sible,” he said. So far, 210 miles of the 262-mile
Tucson Sector border is fenced. McCain, facing GOP primary challenger J.D. Hayworth, a bor- der hawk, made waves by declar- ing in a campaign advertisement filmed in Nogales: “Complete the danged fence.” Boatright said the rough ter-
rain makes finishing the fence im- possible or unnecessary. “We’re looking at a very small
portion that we need to address,” Boatright said. “I’m talking two or three miles.” McCain is seeking 6,000 more
National Guard soldiers, includ- ing 3,000 in Arizona. Yet in Nogal- es, Gustavo Lozano, an activist who favors comprehensive re- form, believes that no measures now in the pipeline will stop ille- gal immigration. “Whatever fear they build up,
whatever troops come to the bor- der,” Lozano said, “people are still going to cross.”
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