January 2019 – National Immigration Law Center
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1 President Trump Accepts Short-Term Bill to Reopen Government Without Border Wall Funding
https://www.nilc.org/2019/01/25/short-term-bill-to-reopen-government-without-border-wall-funding/
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 21:12:46 +0000https://www.nilc.org/?p=18693FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 25, 2019 CONTACT [email protected] Juan Gastelum, 213-375-3149 Hayley Burgess, 202-805-0375 WASHINGTON — More than one month into a White House–driven government shutdown — by far the longest in U.S. history — President Trump announced today that he would finally agree to a bill to temporarily reopen the government and pay government workers.
]]>Supreme Court Declines to Take Up DACA Cases This Term
https://www.nilc.org/2019/01/22/supreme-court-declines-to-take-up-daca-cases-this-term/
Tue, 22 Jan 2019 18:50:53 +0000https://www.nilc.org/?p=18657FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 22, 2019 CONTACT Email: [email protected] Juan Gastelum, 213-375-3149 Hayley Burgess, 202-384-1279 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected the Trump administration’s attempts to rush a review of legal challenges to the termination of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, this spring. The Court will meet again on February 15 to discuss the…
]]>Trump’s So-called “Deal” to End the Shutdown Is a List of Hostage Demands
https://www.nilc.org/2019/01/19/trumps-deal-a-list-of-hostage-demands/
Sat, 19 Jan 2019 22:34:09 +0000https://www.nilc.org/?p=18652FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 19, 2019 CONTACT Email: [email protected] Juan Gastelum, 213-375-3149 Hayley Burgess, 202-805-0375 WASHINGTON — In a televised speech from the White House today — a month into a partial government shutdown — President Trump proposed a one-sided “deal” to reopen the government in exchange for $5.7 billion in taxpayer dollars for a border wall…
]]>Trump Obsessed with Vanity Wall and Willing to Hurt Millions of People to Get It
https://www.nilc.org/2019/01/08/trump-is-obsessed-with-vanity-wall-and-he-is-willing-to-hurt-millions-of-people-to-get-it/
Wed, 09 Jan 2019 02:53:44 +0000https://www.nilc.org/?p=18452FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 8, 2019 CONTACT Email: [email protected] Juan Gastelum, 213-375-3149 Hayley Burgess, 202-805-0375 WASHINGTON — As the government shutdown drags into its third week, President Trump gave a speech on prime-time network television Tuesday evening in a desperate attempt to secure funding for his border wall project. Marielena Hincapié, executive director at the…