Outside the Washington circus, shutdown havoc spreads

The government closure has pushed workers into hardship – and weakened the very immigration system it was meant to bolsterBriana Libby is not a federal employee, and she is not into politics. She lives 2,500 miles from the US border with Mexico, where Donald Trump has demanded funds for a wall in exchange for ending the partial government shutdown.Nonetheless, the shutdown has hit Libby, 26, with devastating force. A mother of two daughters aged four and six, she was on the verge of buying