{"id":1559,"date":"2018-03-22T18:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/dreamers-left-in-limbo-after-spending-bill-proposal\/"},"modified":"2018-03-22T18:00:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T18:00:02","slug":"dreamers-left-in-limbo-after-spending-bill-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law888.com\/?p=1559","title":{"rendered":"Dreamers Left in Limbo after Spending Bill Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Numerous provisions affecting immigration have made it in to Congress&#8217; 1.3 trillion spending bill, but the most glaring omission is the lack of any new laws protecting recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.\u00a0 Dreamers, immigrants who entered the country illegally when they were children, have been passed around as a political football in recent months.\u00a0 The Trump administration ended the DACA program, which allowed many dreamers to live and work in the country legally, last September.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/law888.com\/daca-permits-eligible-renewal-court-ruling\/\">Recent court cases<\/a> have kept the program alive.<\/p>\n<p>While the bill has not yet been passed, and anything is possible, here are some immigration proposals that are currently in the bill.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increased funding for Customs and Border Protection (CBP), allowing for an additional 328 CBP officers<\/li>\n<li>Requirement for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to reduce the number of beds in detention centers<\/li>\n<li>$1.6 billion for border wall funding, with limitations on how that money can be spent<\/li>\n<li>An increase of $1.34 billion for the Census Bureau<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What&#8217;s not in the bill?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Protections for DACA recipients<\/li>\n<li>$25 billion for border wall funding<\/li>\n<li>Funding to increase the number of ICE detention beds<\/li>\n<li>Penalties against so-called &#8220;sanctuary cities&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The deadline for the spending bill to be passed before a government shutdown is this Friday.\u00a0 The House of Representatives has passed the bill which now moves to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The Law Offices of Scott Warmuth carefully monitors all legislation pertaining to immigration.\u00a0 Staying up to date on possible changes to immigration law can help us better serve our clients.\u00a0 If you or a loved one needs help from an <a href=\"https:\/\/law888.com\/immigration-lawyer\/\">immigration attorney<\/a>, contact us today at <strong>888-517-9888<\/strong> to receive a <a href=\"https:\/\/law888.com\/contact-us\/\">free immigration consultation<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous provisions affecting immigration have made it in to Congress&#8217; 1.3 trillion spending bill, but the most glaring omission is the lack of any new laws protecting recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immigration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}