{"id":32176,"date":"2022-08-02T13:44:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T20:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/?p=32176"},"modified":"2022-08-02T13:44:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T20:44:29","slug":"nilc-statement-urging-democrats-reject-harmful-anti-immigrant-amendments-reconciliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/2022\/08\/02\/nilc-statement-urging-democrats-reject-harmful-anti-immigrant-amendments-reconciliation\/","title":{"rendered":"NILC Statement Urging Democrats to Reject Harmful Anti-Immigrant Amendments in Crucial Reconciliation Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row el_class=&#8221;holder&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1444345515294{margin-top: -75px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong><br \/>\nAugust 2, 2022<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONTACT<br \/>\n<\/strong><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Email: <\/span><a href=\"mailto:media@nilc.org\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">media@nilc.org<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Madison Allman, <\/span>202-384-1279<br \/>\nEmily Morris, 213-457-7458<\/p>\n<h2>NILC Statement Urging Democrats to Reject Harmful Anti-Immigrant Amendments in Crucial Reconciliation Bill<\/h2>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Marielena Hincapi\u00e9, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, issued the following statement ahead of the upcoming deliberation in Congress on a health care and climate bill:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Congress poised to act on unprecedented legislation that addresses critical issues facing our communities on healthcare and our planet due to increasing climate disasters, lawmakers must reject any attempt to poison this historic legislation with unrelated, harmful immigration amendments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocratic leaders must be unequivocal and ensure any anti-immigrant amendments are kept out of this bill, including opposing any final version that departs from the climate and healthcare deal to codify the Trump administration\u2019s Title 42 asylum ban.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor years, Republicans have repeatedly blocked efforts to pass real legislative solutions to update our dysfunctional immigration system. Capitulating to their politically motivated scapegoating of immigrants, and allowing them to use a climate and health care bill to block people seeking safety and freedom, would be unconscionable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA deal\u2019s a deal, and there\u2019s no reason to allow political gamesmanship to poison this legislation with anti-immigrant provisions that would harm our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1446077129866{margin-top: -15px !important;}&#8221;][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=&#8221;sidebar-1&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row el_class=&#8221;holder&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1444345515294{margin-top: -75px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 2, 2022 CONTACT Email: media@nilc.org Madison Allman, 202-384-1279 Emily Morris, 213-457-7458 NILC Statement Urging Democrats to Reject Harmful Anti-Immigrant Amendments in Crucial Reconciliation Bill WASHINGTON \u2014 Marielena Hincapi\u00e9, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, issued the following statement ahead of the upcoming deliberation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,2,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32178,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32176\/revisions\/32178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}