House panel advances immigration changes, pushing back on Trump administration policies..

House lawmakers are pushing back against Trump administration immigration by forwarding legislation that would fund alternatives to detention for immigrant families, make credible fear of threats of gangs and domestic violence grounds for asylum and protect some "dreamers" from deportation.

“The House Appropriations Committee did something that the committee that’s supposed to be dealing with immigration hasn’t done in decades, which is pass meaningful immigration legislation,” David Bier, an immigration policy analyst with the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, said.

The changes, approved and passed by the House Appropriations Committee, will have to be approved by the full House. The changes would have to be approved as a joint House-Senate bill approved by both chambers and finally signed by the president to take effect.

Protections for DACA recipients
Amid an uncertain future for young undocumented immigrants known as “dreamers” who came to the United States while they were young, Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., introduced two amendments to restrict federal funding for the deportation of beneficiaries of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, President Barack Obama's 2012 program that President Donald Trump has been trying to end.

Aguilar’s two provisions passed on by voice vote. The first provision protected from deportation DACA recipients who have served in the U.S. military by not allowing the funding to carry out deportations. His second amendment protected DACA recipients who still meet eligibility requirements and are in “good standing.”



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