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Show BUSH SHAKE-UP From page 2 for fresh thinking and new energy. So far, Bush's new choices have been confined to a small circle of Washington insiders. As trade representative, Portman already was a member of Bush's Cabinet, and he will remain a member as budget director. Lawmakers said Bush made a smart move by choosing Portman, who was highly regarded for his ability to forge compromises between Republicans and Democrats when he served as a member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee and as vice chairman of the Budget Committee. House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland said Portman and Schwab were "very capable, experienced individuals who have demonstrated their willingness to reach out and try to achieve bipartisan consensus on difficult issues and to make common-sense judgments based on the facts at hand." Both nominations must be confirmed by the Senate. Yet, Hoyer said Portman has a difficult job in taming deficits because "this administration has pursued the most fiscally irresponsible policies in American history." House Budget Committee Chairman Jim Nussle, R-Iowa, praised Portman's "ability to work - with both sides of the aisle - as an extremely effective communicator and leader." Bush, at the announcement ceremony, noted Portman's long experience on Capitol Hill and his successes - as trade negotiator over 11 months in opening new markets for American goods, and winning House passage of the Central American Free Trade Agreement. "He knows the priorities of my administration," Bush said. "He can get things done." "It's a big job," Portman said as he accepted the nomination. "The Office of Management and Budget touches every spending and policy decision in the federal government." The president acknowledged that Washington was buzzing with rumors about an administration shake-up. Treasury Secretary John Snow is said to be on the verge of leaving, and Bush has not risen to his defense the way he has with Rumsfeld. Republicans outside the White House say they expect changes in the White House lobbying and communications shops. "I understand this is a matter of high speculation here in Washington," the president said. "It's the game of musical chairs, I guess you would say, that people love to follow." Bolten told Bush's senior advisers on Monday that if they were thinking about leaving before they end of • the year, they should go now to let the president settle on a team that will remain in place. In another personnel change, Jim Towey, head of the White House office of faith-based and community initiatives, resigned to become president of St. Vincent College in Pennsylvania. White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Towey's departure was not related to any White House shake-up. CifeSaborit752-80tf rtfci Steve or C WED. APRIL 5*6 •00WEST CElTUt STRUT little Caesars* •MIGRANTS What Is HOT-N-ftEADY? plnai hst out of tti* own From page 2 climb onto a northbound freight train. Lopez said he had been shaken down repeatedly in 15 days of traveling through Mexico. "The soldiers were there as soon as we crossed the river," he said. "They said, You can't cross ... unless you leave something for us.'" Jose Ramos, 18, of El Salvador, said the extortion occurs at every stop in Mexico, until migrants are left penniless and begging for food. "If you're on a bus, they pull you off and search your pockets and if you have any money, they keep it and say, 'Get out of here,'" Ramos said. Maria Elena Gonzalez, who lives near the tracks, said female migrants often complain about abusive police. "They force them to strip, supposedly to search them, but the purpose is to sexually abuse them," she said. Others said they had seen migrants beaten to death by police, their bodies left near the railway tracks to make it look as if they had fallen from a train. The Mexican government acknowledges that many federal, state and local officials are on the take from the people-smugglers who move hundreds of thousands of Central Americans north, and that migrants are particularly vulnerable to abuse by corrupt police. The National Human Rights Commission, a government-funded agency, documented the abuses south of the U.S. border in a December report. "One of the saddest national failings on immigration issues is the contradiction in demanding that the North respect migrants' rights, which we are not capable of guaranteeing in the South," commission president Jose Luis Soberanes said. In the United States, mostly Mexican immigrants have staged rallies pressuring Congress to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants rather than making them . felons and deputizing police to deport them. 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