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ByBradleyKlapper The Associated Press WASHINGTON TheObama administration said Friday it will apply the legal provi- sions of the Freedom of In- formation Act to determine what parts of Hillary Clin- ton's official emails when she was secretary of state will be released publicly from her private account. The law contains nine ex- emptions to censor or with- hold parts of records. The decision means that any finding by State De- partment reviewers that her private emails included classified or otherwise sen- sitive data would be indi- cated, even if the informa- tion is marked out. Under that law, reviewers need to specify which of the nine exceptions they're citing to censor a passage. Clinton's extensive use of her own email account and private server has raised questions in the buildup to her expected presidential campaign about whether she adhered to the letter or spirit of accountability rules. Clin- ton has asked for the full led- ger of her work-related cor- respondence to be made public, a process the State Department said could take months. The emails com- prise 55,000 pages. On Friday, State Depart- ment spokeswoman Marie Harf said the agency was focused solely on facilitat- ing the emails' public re- lease, not on any examina- tion of possible wrongdoing by Clinton. She said no law prohib- ited the former first lady from using her own email account while in govern- ment, even exclusively for official business. She sug- gested a 2011 cable sent from Clinton's office of- fered only a general recom- mendation to staff about not using private accounts. The cable read: "Avoid conducting official Depart- ment business from your personal e-mail accounts." Harf said, "This cable, in general, is talking about guidance on best practices, colloquial guidance for peo- ple when it came to per- sonal email." "This is certainly not a regulation or a policy," Harf said, calling the sug- gestion that Clinton didn't follow her own best prac- tices an "oversimplification of what's going on here." The issue may be more pertinenttopoliticsthanlaw. The idea of the secretary of state failing to follow recom- mendations that applied to the rest of her department could reinforce perceptions amongsomevotersthatClin- ton played by a different set of rules. It could open her to criticism about how she ful- filled a legal requirement to preserve all her emails. Clinton's private email practices gave her unusually large control over access to her message archives, po- tentially complicating the State Department's legal re- sponsibilities in finding and turning over official emails in response to any investi- gations, lawsuits or public records requests. Under the Freedom of In- formation Act, also known as FOIA, the government can censor or withhold emails to protect informa- tion that would hurt na- tional security, violate per- sonal privacy or expose business secrets or confi- dential decision-making in certain areas. FO IA r ul es t o gu id e re vi ew of emails for publication CLINTON DATA INQUIRY By Juan A. Lozano The Associated Press HOUSTON A coalition of states suing to stop Presi- dent Barack Obama's exec- utive action on immigration alleges the government mis- led a judge about not imple- menting part of the plan be- fore the judge temporarily halted it. The allegation comes af- ter the Justice Department said in court documents this week that federal officials had given 100,000 people three-year reprieves from de- portation and granted them work permits under a pro- gram that protects young immigrants from deporta- tion if they were brought to the U.S. illegally as children. Justice Department at- torneys had previously said federal officials wouldn't ac- cept requests under an ex- pansion of the 2012 De- ferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, until Feb. 18. The federal government's immigration actions re- garding DACA as well as a program that would extend deportation protections to parents of U.S. citizens and permanent residents who have been in the country for some years were put on hold on Feb. 16 by U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville, Texas. Justice Department attorneys have asked Hanen to lift his hold while they appeal the ruling to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Hanen has not made a deci- sion on that request. Obama's action, first pro- posed in November, could spare from deportation as many as 5 million peo- ple who are in the U.S. il- legally. Many Republicans strongly oppose his action and 26 states, most of them led by Republicans, sought to block the Obama's orders as unconstitutional. In court documents filed Tuesday, the Justice Depart- ment said that between Nov. 24 and Feb. 16, federal im- migration officials granted the three-year reprieves to 100,000 individuals who were already eligible under the original 2012 guidelines of DACA. The Justice Department said the federal government recognizes that its identifi- cation of Feb. 18 as the date when requests under the new and expanded eligibil- ity would be accepted "may have led to confusion." Justice Department at- torneys said they don't be- lieve the preliminary in- junction requires federal of- ficials to take any steps to reverse the three-year re- prieves already granted. In court documents filed Thursday, the states said they don't understand why the U.S. government doesn't consider the approval of the 100,000 reprieves to have been done under the new and expanded guidelines of DACA. LAWSUIT States claim that Obama administration misled judge on immigration By Frank Jordans The Associated Press BERLIN The headlines would suggest Europe is under siege: Thousands of Germans march against the continent's "Islamiza- tion." French readers flock to read a novel about a Muslim president who im- poses Sharia law on their country. Commentators warn darkly about an en- croaching age of "Eurabia" in the wake of the Paris ter- ror attacks. But is Europe actually heading toward Islamiza- tion? Research shows that Eu- rope's Islamic population has indeed risen sharply over the last two decades, and continues to grow. But the numbers fall far short of any possibility of Europe becoming predominantly Muslim. And there are lit- tle signs that Islamic cul- ture is spreading beyond the boundaries of Muslim com- munities — let alone becom- ing dominant in Europe. The Pew Forum pub- lished research in 2011 pre- dicting that Europe's Mus- lim population will almost double to nearly 57 million by 2030, from just under 30 million in 1990. That may seem like a lot, but it still means that Europe's Mus- lim population would only increase from 4.1 percent to 7.8 percent, according to the Pew paper. Moreover, the Pew report says that the pe- riod of greatest growth in Islamic populations is al- ready past. "As Muslims become more integrated, they tend to have fewer children," said Brian J. Grim, president of the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation, who worked on the Pew report. "Based on the demographic data, Europe cannot be Is- lamized, if by that is meant demographic dominance." If population trends don't point toward Islamization, could there be a cultural change with the same re- sult? In London, Paris, Ber- lin and other major Euro- pean cities, anti-Muslim sentiment is frequently di- rected against the growth of mosques, halal butchers and Islamic dress in the streets — with many seeing them as infringements on Euro- pean norms. Following major Islamist terrorattacksinLondonand Paris, anxieties are soaring in Europe about the rapid growth of a culture that, its critics say, simply refuses to adopt the values of the host country. Ordinary people across Europe are increas- ingly wary of the insular- looking Islamic communi- ties that have cropped up in major European cities, and feel that its members are hostile to the European mainstream. A stream of news sto- ries about homegrown Is- lamic youths traveling to Syria to wage jihad with Is- lamic State has tended to put the entire Muslim com- munity under a pall of suspi- cion. Meanwhile, the attack in Paris on a Jewish super- marketfollowingthemurder spree against cartoonists at the satirical weekly Char- lie Hebdo has caused many Jews to consider fleeing Eu- rope and moving to Israel. Kathrin Oertel, one of the founders of the group Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West, or PEGIDA, and one of the key figures be- hind the rallies in the Ger- man state of Saxony, says Muslims are eroding Ger- man cultural identity. "In Europe, there are some countries where Is- lamization has gone so far that it affects the culture and life there," said Oertel, who has since left PEGIDA to form her own group. Mainstream conserva- tive politicians, too, have responded angrily to news reports of Muslims refus- ing to assimilate. Often, they center on Muslim parents who refuse to let daughters take part in co- ed swimming lessons, or Muslim students insisting that a prayer room be avail- able at a university that al- ready has a chapel. Cases such as that of Germany's "Shariah Po- lice" go further. Last September, about a dozen Muslim men donned high-visibility vests and pa- trolled the streets of Wup- pertal, Germany, handing out leaflets declaring the area to be a "Shariah-con- trolled zone" where alcohol, music and pornography were banned. Their behav- ior prompted a sharp out- cry in the German media. But there was no evidence that it had broad support among Wuppertal's Mus- lim population — and the group has since disap- peared from public sight. CULTURE CLASH 'Eurabia' fears rise a er terrorist strikes MARKUSSCHREIBER—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE Turkish people arrive at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany, to cast their vote for the Turkish presidential election. Landscape/Fence Steve's Tractor &LandscapeService •FenceBuilding•Landscaping • Trenching • Rototilling • Disking • Mowing • Ridging • Post Hole Digging • Blade Work • Sprinkler Installation • Concrete Work Cont. 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