Immigrant Rights Groups Spoke out Against the Order

Students: Ms.Strengholt's seventh-grade language arts class from Grandville Middle School, Michigan, and Channel One News starts right now!

Tom: All right, Grandville Middle School kicking us offwith shout-outs for Demetrius and Keith.Actually, guys, Keith is going to be with us later in the show, so stay tuned.First up today, new guidelines are out on immigration laws and those found to be in the U.S. illegally, and the new tough push will likely lead to more people being deported.

President Donald Trump: We have to let people come in that are going to be positive for our country.

Tom: The Department of Homeland Security released new guidelines yesterday on how it will enforce President Trump's executive orders on border security and immigration. The guidelines call for the immediate return of Mexican immigrants captured at the border, hiring 10,000 more immigration agentsand 5,000 more for Border Patroland prosecution of parents who pay smugglers to bring their children into the U.S. illegally.

Immigrant rights groups spoke out against the order.

Julieta Garibay: It is very aggressive and worrisome.

Tom: For now, President Trump is keeping President Obama's DACA program, which provides work permits to more than 750,000 immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

The guidelines also call for money to be shifted toward building a wall along the U.S.–Mexico border. And they are separate from the controversial order that halted people traveling to the U.S. from seven predominantly Muslim countries — a move blocked by federal courts. A new revision on that one is expected later this week.

Trump: We have to have people come in that are going to love the country, not people that are going to harm the country. And I think a lot of people agree with me on that.

Tom: In a recent “CBSNews” poll, 51 percent of Americans disagree with a travel ban; 45 percent approve of it.

All right, next up, we head to the continent of Africa. Several countries there are facing desperate times, with people on the verge of starvation: millions with no food, no hope, no help. The United Nations says it is rare to see this kind of famine in modern times.

The numbers are shocking: 1.4 million children are at risk of death; more than 20million people at risk of dying in the next several months because there is no food. The countries hit hardest are Nigeria, Somalia and South Sudan in Africaand Yemen in the Middle East. Famine was declared this week in South Sudan; it is the first time famine has been announced by the U.N. in six years — one of the most serious charges.

Famine can only be declared when20 percent of households face extreme food shortages,malnutrition rates go beyond 30 percent,and the death rate is greater than
2 people for every 10,000. And the main reason comes down to human conflict and man-made wars.

South Sudan is an oil-rich country in the middle of a civil war, and because of constant fighting, its economy is collapsing. Farming is one of the main resources, and many have lost their livestock and farms, which means no way to make money and no food.

Marixie Mercado: The fact is that these conflicts are largely manmade. Children are dying because of man-made, conflict-affected disasters. In 2017 that's shameful.

Tom: Now, all the countries we mentioned have ongoing military conflicts, and aid groups say they can only do so much with regard to relief work, but the main goal is to end the conflicts and stabilizethe governments.

Okay, next up, the place to be for toy lovers this week is in New York City. Here is a look at some of the cool toys from the Toy Fair that will be hitting the shelves later this year.

Just about every kind of toy is on display at the Toy Fair in New York, from low-tech to high-tech.Getting kids moving was a big trend, from the Ponycycle — a self-propelled toy horse …

Marissa DiBartolo: It's like a new take on the rocking horse.

Tom: … to a stationary cycle that works with a tablet.There were also toys to challenge the mind. The LEGOBoost teaches how to code and build robots with the LEGOs you already have.And drones are hot — this one doesn't come with a controller. The Aura drone comes with a glove, and it moves with hand gestures.

Man: So this technology is called Gesturebotics. The idea here is that we have a bunch of sensors that take the gestures of the human hand and turn it into commands that a drone can follow.

Tom: The drone also has a protective plastic cage to keep it from breaking on those crash landings.

You know, one of these years, I have just got to check it out.

Okay, coming up, a high-tech way to help kids cope with the challenges of autism.

Tom: Okay,Emily is here with a really interesting story about how technology that is normally used for things like fun and games is making life a bit easier for kids with autism.

Emily: Yeah, Tom, if you have checked out virtual reality, or VR, you know that it is a gamechanger.Now that change is taking place in a whole new way. Check it out.

Maddox Mank is using this virtual schoolyard to learn skills for the realworld.

Maddox Mank: I just feel like it’s the right thing to do.

Emily: The 12-year-old has high-functioning autism. Children like Maddox are very intelligent but have trouble when it comes to social interaction.

Tim Mank: He loves to join, loves to get involved, wants to be a part of the game — part of what's going on — but he was unsure all the time exactly how to work in there.

Emily: Autism is a developmental disorder that causes issues with communication, social, verbal and motor skills and affects about 1in every 68 children in the United States.A recent study at the Center for BrainHealth in Dallas shows using virtual-reality technology helps autistic children better understand emotions and intentions of others.

Maria Johnson: We really can simulate these different relationships that the students are dealing with, and it’s real life. It evokes those same emotions.

Emily: Here,Maddox interacts with a classmate who wants to bully younger kids.

Maddox: It kinda sounds mean.

Emily: Researchers give students instant feedback on how to respond in situations.

Johnson: It's very important that they understand and that they learn the skills,then how to standup for yourself and how to recognize if somebodyis being a good friend or a not-so-good friend.

Emily: Maddox's father says the technology creates a safe space to learn.

Mank: Through the training he was able to kind of better figure out where people were, how to read people a little better and understand how to step into the situation.

Emily: He hopes this virtual-reality experience will help his son make good choices in real life. Emily Reppert, Channel One News.

Tom: Very cool.

All right, after the break we check out a forgotten face of the Wild West.

Tom: Okay, when you think of iconic African-American figures, you probably think of people like Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks — but Keith is here with another addition that is very much overlooked.

Keith: Yeah,Tom, what about the American cowboy? Well, in honor of Black History Month, we are taking a look at one modern rodeo that is telling the forgotten stories of the past.

In movies the old Wild West often looks like this, but historians estimate about a quarter of cowboys in the Wild West were African-American.

Aaron Laskey: The main line I get is, “I didn't know there was a black cowboy."

Keith: That is why Valeria Howard-Vason's late husband,Lu,launched this rodeo more than 30 years ago — the Bill PickettInvitational, named after a famous black cowboy of the early 1900s.

Valeria Howard-Vason: When the rodeo started, people did not know that there were black cowboys and cowgirls; they were not allowed to participate.

Keith: After the Civil War, working on a ranch was one of the few jobs blacks could get,but their stories have rarely been told, or they have been whitewashed by Hollywood. For example, some experts say the Lone Ranger was inspired by a real African-American lawman.

Now the Bill PickettRodeo is honoring those untold stories — known as the world’s only touring African-American rodeo, holding events all across the country.

Carolyn Carter: We have the bull riding, the bareback riding;we have the calf roping, steer wrestling, steer decorating and barrel racing, and we have our juniors.

Rose Alphonse: Everytime I come here,I always be fascinated with just the little kids riding.

Keith: More than just entertainment, it is keeping the black cowboy tradition — and history — alive.

Yeah,Tom, and in the spirit of rodeos, I have got a fun fact for you. Back in the day, they used to call me Keith "Cowboy" Kocinski.

Tom: Oh, my gosh. And is that — wait, that is — is that you on a bull?

Keith: Yep, yep, that is me. That is a mean bull, right there.

Tom: Wait, oh man. Wait, so you fell off the bull, though.

Keith: I fell off the bull. I got kicked in the leg, but I am here to talk about it today.

Tom: Oh man. You know that is definitely a Channel One first.

Okay, make sure to check out more African-American game changers. We have got a quiz up on ChannelOne.com.

All right, now, before we head out, we have one more thing to show you.

Most people think of college as a carefree time full of independence, no chores and the occasional care package from Mom or Dad.But one Pennsylvania student was in for quite the surprise when he got a box from his mom.

Connor Cox: I received a box like this, and I was expecting a bunch of food: chips, all stuff like that. And then I opened it up and saw a bunch of trash and called my mom, and we talked about it. I asked her if she sent me the wrong box because that's how confused I was. But she said it was the right box, and that Ineeded to be held responsible for what I didn't do.

Tom: It turns out when he didn't take out the trash at home, his unfinished chore followed him back to college.

Cox: I thought I could get away with it this one time, and obviously,I didn't.

Tom: Talk about tough love.

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