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*A coalition of companies including Apple and Amazon urges the Congress to pass bipartisan legislation that enables more than 700,000 immigrants, known as "Dreamers," to legally work and live in the U.S.
*"With the re-opening of the federal government and the presumptive restart of immigration and border security negotiations, now is the time for Congress to pass a law to provide Dreamers the certainty they need," the coalition wrote in a letter to lawmakers.
*The letter is also running Monday as a full-page ad in The New York Times.
*Immigration one of the biggest sticking points between the parties as the government lurches toward another potential shutdown at the end of this Friday


More than 100 major companies including Apple and Amazon are renewing their push for immigration reform as another potential government shutdown looms.

In a letter to lawmakers, the coalition of companies urged the Congress to pass bipartisan legislation that enables more than 700,000 immigrants, known as "Dreamers," to legally work and live in the U.S. The letter ran Monday as a full-page ad in The New York Times.

CEOs who signed the letter include Apple's Tim Cook, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Google's Sundar Pichai and Twitter and Square's Jack Dorsey.


"With the re-opening of the federal government and the presumptive restart of immigration and border security negotiations, now is the time for Congress to pass a law to provide Dreamers the certainty they need. These are our friends, neighbors, and coworkers, and they should not have to wait for court cases to be decided to determine their fate when Congress can act now," they wrote in the letter.

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Immigration is one of the biggest sticking points between the parties as the government lurches toward another potential shutdown at the end of this Friday. President Donald Trump has been a big opponent of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, a program offering immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children legal waivers allowing them to stay and work in the country. Trump had proposed limited legal protections for "Dreamers" in exchange for money to build his proposed border wall, but the Democrats quickly rejected the temporary solution as "inadequate."

Losing DACA workers would cost the economy $350 billion in GDP and $90 billion in tax revenue, the companies said in the letter.

"We have seen time and again that the overwhelming majority of Americans of all political backgrounds agree that we should protect Dreamers from deportation," the letter said. "American employers and hundreds of thousands of Dreamers are counting on you to pass bipartisan, permanent legislative protection for Dreamers without further delay."

Trump agreed on Jan. 25 to end a 35-day government shutdown, the longest such impasse in history, without getting the $5.7 billion he had demanded from Congress for a border wall. Congress has been working on a bill that addresses border security but is still stuck on several key issues. It has until Friday to lock down the sticking points and strike a deal that could avoid another funding lapse, or pass another temporary spending bill.



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I’m not trying to be negative I’m just tired of these big name companies using DACA or Dreamers to get a spotlight, they don’t continue the push they just bring it up and then it dies again .... It’s getting old

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Las Vegas DREAMers heading to Washington, D.C. to advocate for DACA


A Western High School senior who has plans to enlist in the Army but can’t get protections through DACA because the program is in limbo is among 50 DREAMers heading to Washington, D.C. this week to advocate for a fix.

Wilfredo Villanueva, 17, is one of several dozen young people from around the country going on a three-day trip this week sponsored by the conservative-leaning LIBRE Initiative that will include visits with congressional representatives and a press conference with a coalition of other immigrant-focused groups. The trip comes days before the country faces another potential shutdown of the federal government as congressional Democrats continue to refuse to fulfill President Donald Trump’s demand for billions of additional dollars to fund a border wall.

One of Trump’s proposals last month was to give current DACA recipients three years of additional protections in exchange for border wall funding, but that was rejected by Democrats as too stingy. Groups including LIBRE also think the three-year extension isn’t enough to give DREAMers the kind of long-term stability that will help them flourish.

“We just want to create a sense of urgency that this needs to be acted on now, especially with this window — it’s the perfect opportunity for this issue to take center stage and to actually achieve a consensus that’s going to satisfy both sides,” Ronnie Najarro, a Nevada-based leader with LIBRE, said in an interview. “We’re willing and able to push for more border security … but we can’t just focus on that. We have to have also, for the DREAMers, letting them have permanent status and being able to plan their lives.”

LIBRE is making the push along with other organizations, including the National Immigration Forum, American Business Immigration Coalition, Americans For Prosperity and FWD.US, an advocacy group launched by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Villanueva, who was brought to the country illegally from his native El Salvador, has been unable to get DACA protections because the program is not accepting new applicants. His hope is to enlist in the Army and then attend college later on the G.I. Bill.

“There’s so many things that I’d like to do that I just can’t do,” he said in an interview about his life without DACA. “I feel like both parties have to come together and find a solution because I feel there are hundreds of thousands of kids in jeopardy.”

DACA has been subject to a series of lawsuits and debates in the courts since Trump took office and announced in 2017 that he was phasing out the program. Although Trump called on Congress to come to a solution on DREAMers within six months, the deadline came and went without such a fix.

Thousands of beneficiaries came out of the shadows when the Obama administration offered them legal status and work permits through an executive order creating DACA in 2012.

The LIBRE Initiative is a nonprofit organization that’s part of a network launched by the billionaire Koch brothers and aims to expose Hispanics to fiscally conservative and socially libertarian viewpoints. The group’s president says LIBRE isn’t dead-set against Trump’s calls for billions in border spending if DREAMers can benefit.

“Although our preference would be that it’s not necessarily a wall that’s going to strengthen the security in the border zone, why not use it as a concession to give 1.8 million of our children the security of having citizenship,” LIBRE Initiative President Daniel Garza said in a previous interview. “And it’s not that someone is in favor of the wall, or not, or whatever, but I’m in favor of giving citizenship to 1.8 million of our children. But now we know that there wasn’t anything, the negotiations have broken down and we return to the same thing, where it’s the same people making the same arguments, with the same poor result.”

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Looks like thy might be doing another CR

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With negotiations stalled, we expect the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate appropriations panels to meet this afternoon at 3:30 pm et, once lawmakers get back into town. The key here now is avoiding a Saturday, not so much forging a deal on border security.

With no agreement, the sides may have to approve an interim spending bill (known as a CR, short for “Continuing Resolution) to fund the government. Such a plan simply re-ups all spending at current levels.

It’s possible appropriators could split the appra pkg - taking the six spending bills where there is agreement and moving them as “new” bills – and simply doing a CR for DHS. But, a CR for all bills is bad for Democrats. They scored a lot of domestic policy wins in those measures

A CR for everything means Democrats leave money for their programs on the table. This could be an incentive for Democrats to deal.

But Democrats would happily take six new bills glommed together as a “minibus” and a CR simply renewing all old DHS funding at current levels.

Then again, the water is fouled so badly that the only option may be a short-term CR for everything or even a long-term CR for the entire fiscal year, ending September 30.

Fox is told the President is willing to do a CR, both short term and long term.

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This is all PR.

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You misspelled CR.

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No he did not! He means this is all Public Relations... He is not talking about Continuing Resolution!

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You are 100% correct!

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I am tired.

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Yep, they will never legalize us. Hope they have enough pity to allow us to work legally.