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Ted Deutch, D-Fla., before a \u003ca href=\"https://judiciary.house.gov/legislation/hearings/oversight-trump-administration-s-family-separation-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">congressional hearing\u003c/a> on the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR's John Burnett reported,\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is in charge of caring for under-age immigrants, received more than 4,500 allegations of sexual abuse and sexual harassment between 2015 and 2018. The reporting begins under the Obama administration. Of those complaints, some 1,300 were serious enough to refer to the FBI, but an official says 'the vast majority' proved to be unfounded.\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\n\"Most of the assault allegations involved one minor abusing another. But 178 of the complaints were against staff at the shelters — in particular, youth-care workers who escort the children everywhere they go. The complaints range from inappropriate romantic relationships between children and adults, to touching genitals, to watching children shower.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In a hearing by the House Judiciary Committee, Deutch said the government's 135 migrant shelters are \"an unsafe environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Together these documents detail an environment of systemic sexual assault by staff on unaccompanied children,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administration officials expressed their concern while defending the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=2ahUKEwiz076m4tzgAhUMt54KHR7tAHIQFjAAegQIAxAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.acf.hhs.gov%2Forr&usg=AOvVaw2e65mdxQeQpSWBnsvA59GQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Office of Refugee Resettlement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We share the concern that I think everyone in this room feels, anytime a child is abused in the care of ORR is one time too many,\" said Jonathan White, the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps commander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The vast majority of allegations prove to be unfounded when they are investigated by state law enforcement and federal law enforcement and the state licensure authorities to whom we refer them,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/26/politics/hhs-documents-minors-sexual-abuse/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he added\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723069/u-s-official-defends-efforts-to-reunite-migrant-children-with-parents\">ACLU Demands Government Account for Thousands More Separated Migrant Children\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723069/u-s-official-defends-efforts-to-reunite-migrant-children-with-parents\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GettyImages-1005223924-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Children who travel to the U.S. border alone or who arrive with a relative who is not their parent or legal guardian are considered by the government to be unaccompanied minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some 13,000 so-called unaccompanied migrant children are in the custody of the ORR,\" Burnett reported. \"They stay, on average, for about three months at the shelters before they are released to go live with an adult sponsor, while they await their day in immigration court.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ORR \u003ca href=\"https://teddeutch.house.gov/uploadedfiles/naduac1217-sexual_assault_policy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first began collecting reports\u003c/a> of sexual abuse of people in its custody in October 2014, the beginning of FY 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has \"a zero-tolerance policy for all forms of sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and inappropriate sexual behavior at all care provider that house unaccompanied alien children,\" according to the policy statement. All care providers are required to report all such allegations to state or local authorities within four hours of learning such information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">https://www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Sexual+Assault+Of+Detained+Migrant+Children+Reported+In+The+Thousands+Since+2015&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 6:18 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donald Trump apparently blessed the meeting his son held with a Russian delegation to get dirt on opponents in 2016 and welcomed advance word of efforts by WikiLeaks to disrupt the election, his former lawyer told Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those were only a few of the politically incendiary allegations Michael Cohen made in a landmark hearing before the House oversight committee on Wednesday. He stopped short of accusing Trump and his campaign of a full-on conspiracy with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/04/25/586099619/the-russia-investigations-what-you-need-to-know-about-russian-active-measures\">the Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen did, however, allege that GOP \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721322/roger-stone-indictment-raises-more-big-questions-about-russia-trump-2016-campaign\">political consultant Roger Stone\u003c/a> phoned Trump to tell him that WikiLeaks intended to release a batch of emails that would embarrass the Democratic National Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lmOUXYLHzw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen described being in Trump's office when Stone called to say he had just talked with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange about the release. Stone has denied that, but he too is facing charges of lying to Congress, in a federal case in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for Assange also denied on Wednesday that he had spoken by phone with Stone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russian intelligence officers stole emails from the Democrats and others as part of a concerted attack on the U.S. election, although it still isn't clear how much Trump and his campaign knew about Russia's efforts or whether the material WikiLeaks obtained had originated from the work of Russia's intelligence services.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I have lied, but I am not a liar. I have done bad things, but I am not a bad man. I have fixed things, but I am no longer your 'fixer,' Mr. Trump.'\u003ccite>Michael Cohen\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cohen was asked whether he believed it was possible that Trump and his family might have been compromised or whether they might have been willing to collude with the Russians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen also suggested that Donald Trump Jr. may have told his father about the June 2016 meeting he scheduled at Trump Tower following an offer of help from the Russian government — one President Trump has denied he knew about at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump knew about everything, Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was nothing that happened at the Trump Organization ... that did not go through Mr. Trump for his approval and sign-off,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A laundry list of alleged wrongdoing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cohen also made \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=5753152-Michael-Cohen-Prepared-Testimony-for-House\">a number of other accusations\u003c/a> against Trump:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>That Trump paid Cohen, while in office, to cover the costs associated with buying the silence of a woman who said she had had a sexual relationship with Trump years earlier. Trump has acknowledged the payment but denied the underlying allegations about a sexual relationship.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>That Trump's camp encouraged Cohen to lie to Congress and the public about the negotiations the Trump business had carried on with powerful Russians about a potential Trump Tower real estate deal in Moscow. The statement Cohen prepared, he said, was edited by Trump's lawyers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cohen said Trump told him to lie about the medical deferments that Trump received that excused him from the draft during the Vietnam War. Cohen said Trump had no medical records to back up his claim of a medical deferment but said he wasn't \"stupid\" and had no intention of being drafted.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Trump ordered Cohen to find a fake buyer for a portrait of Trump to make it appear that the painting had sold for a lot of money and was therefore valuable; actually, Cohen said, Trump arranged to use money from his foundation to inflate the sale price.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5753217-Michael-Cohen-Prepared-Testimony-for-House.html\" width=800 height=800]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen also faulted Trump for remarks that Cohen called racist and for his years as a \"con man,\" treating nearly everyone as a sucker and using his political aspirations as an \"informercial\" for himself — not as a way to serve the United States as the holder of its highest office.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Republicans reject Cohen's claims out of hand\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Republicans and the White House rejected Cohen's allegations before he even made them, pointing out that he has pleaded guilty to federal charges \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/29/671864979/trump-moscow-real-estate-talks-continued-into-presidential-run-documents-show\">of lying to Congress\u003c/a> and has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/12/676040070/michael-cohen-sentenced-to-3-years-in-prison-following-plea-that-implicated-trum\">sentenced to three years in prison\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1100683974899363840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1100683974899363840&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2019%2F02%2F27%2F696752450%2Fmichael-cohen-to-testify-publicly-before-congress-on-alleged-trump-lawbreaking\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., objected to the proceedings on Wednesday before Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., had even delivered his opening statement, leading to a dispute over whether the hearing could continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, it went ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1100683974899363840\">Trump said on Twitter\u003c/a> that Cohen is only trying to get a lighter punishment, having been sentenced to three years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House press secretary Sarah Sanders slammed the House oversight committee for giving Cohen a venue to air public complaints against the president when Cohen is a \"convicted liar.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Schemes within schemes\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cohen's opening statement addressed directly his history of lying — yes, he said, he had lied many times in the past. But, he said, that was when he was in Trump's thrall and those days are over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For those who question my motives for being here today, I understand,\" he said. \"I have lied, but I am not a liar. I have done bad things, but I am not a bad man. I have fixed things, but I am no longer your 'fixer,' Mr. Trump.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen provided members of Congress what what he said were documents that backed up his testimony, including a check signed by Trump that Cohen said was part of the reimbursement \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/02/607943366/giuliani-says-trump-did-know-about-stormy-daniels-payment\">for paying off adult film actress Stormy Daniels\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5753253-Trump-Cohen-Check.html\" width=800 height=800]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, Cohen and Allen Weisselberg, the CFO of Trump's company, worked out the arrangement under which Cohen would be repaid the $130,000 he gave Daniels to keep her from talking, Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They agreed on a year's worth of periodic smaller payments that would make it look like Cohen was getting a retainer as Trump's lawyer, he said. Trump signed some of the checks, one of which Cohen gave to the committee. At least one was signed by Trump Jr. and Weisselberg, which Cohen also gave committee members.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11729043/rep-jackie-speier-michael-cohen-hearing-will-get-closer-to-the-truth-of-trump-as-businessman\">Rep. Jackie Speier: Michael Cohen Hearing Will Get Closer to the Truth of Trump as Businessman\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11729043/rep-jackie-speier-michael-cohen-hearing-will-get-closer-to-the-truth-of-trump-as-businessman\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/GettyImages-1132275081-1020x795.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., emphasized that the check was drawn on the trust that Trump created to give up control of his business after he was elected. That indicated that he stayed involved, despite his claims, and interacted with Trump Jr. and Weisselberg to make the payments to Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's garden variety financial fraud,\" Khanna said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The payment to another woman, former Playboy model Karen McDougal, was made on behalf of Trump by the publisher of the \u003cem>National Enquirer\u003c/em>, American Media, Inc., run by Trump's friend David Pecker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That arrangement had been used before, Cohen said, although he didn't detail every other instance in which Pecker had helped Trump \"catch and kill\" damaging stories, as the practice was called.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/13/676233447/what-you-need-to-know-about-another-wild-week-in-the-russia-investigation\">AMI reached an agreement with prosecutors in New York City \u003c/a>in which it was not charged with a crime because it cooperated with investigators in Cohen's case.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A brand allegedly built on lies\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The chicanery that Cohen described involved nearly every aspect of Trump's public life and career, according to his allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, for example, was in the practice of falsifying the value of his assets so that he would rank higher in listings of wealthy people, Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen told Rep. 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If Trump is a racist as Cohen charged, Meadows asked, why did he hire Patton, a black woman?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen asked in response why there aren't there any black executives within the Trump Organization. Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>The highly anticipated testimony that Michael Cohen, President Trump's former attorney, provides before a House committee on Wednesday will give Congress the sharpest portrait yet of Trump in the years before he became president, according to congresswoman Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the closest that any of us will come to understanding Donald Trump, the businessman,\" said Speier, who sits on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, which is set to hear from Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/26/698098372/cohen-to-detail-alleged-trump-lawbreaking-white-house-hes-a-convicted-liar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testimony\u003c/a> before the oversight committee will be broadcast live nationally. It comes two months before he is scheduled to begin serving a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to tax evasion, campaign finance violations and lying to Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen has admitted to facilitating so-called hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal for them to stay quiet before the presidential election about alleged affairs with Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hush money paid to both Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal may just be the tip of the iceberg,\" Speier said. \"I think Mr. Trump, the businessman, conducted himself in a manner that was inconsistent with the law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congressman Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, noted the hearings won't touch on areas that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is looking into. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't want to do anything that makes their work more difficult to get to the truth,\" DeSaulnier said. \"So we're more of a broad look at a number of things: the pavements, the hush money paid to the two women who allegedly had affairs with Mr. Trump; his foundation's use of funds; and things of that nature.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Wednesday's hearing, Cohen is reportedly prepared to present evidence related to what he says is criminal conduct by Trump before and after he became president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If Michael Cohen is bringing documents that can buttress what he is saying, that becomes very compelling,\" said Speier, who also sits on the House Intelligence Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is an opportunity really for the country and for the Congress to find out who's telling the truth and go after the facts,\" DeSaulnier said. He also pointed out that the House Committee on Oversight and Reform is a \"quasi-judicial proceeding\" — though he fully expects it to be mired in theatrics on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think Mr. Cohen was staring at some very dire consequences and decided to tell the truth. And I think he's going to tell the truth tomorrow,\" DeSaulnier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House issued a statement Tuesday dismissing Cohen's allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Disgraced felon Michael Cohen is going to prison for lying to Congress and making other false statements,\" said press secretary Sarah Sanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sadly, he will go before Congress this week and we can expect more of the same,\" Sanders said. \"It's laughable that anyone would take a convicted liar like Cohen at his word and pathetic to see him given yet another opportunity to spread his lies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This story will be updated.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR contributed reporting to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Immigrants with specialized skills are being denied work visas or seeing applications get caught up in lengthy bureaucratic tangles under federal changes that some consider a contradiction to President Donald Trump’s promise of a continued pathway to the U.S. for the most talented foreigners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting what’s known as an H-1B visa has never been a sure thing — the number issued annually is capped at 85,000 and applicants need to enter a lottery to even be considered. But some immigration attorneys, as well as those who hire such workers, say they’ve seen unprecedented disruptions in the approval process since Trump took office in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11652014/trump-administration-restricts-h-1b-worker-visas-coveted-by-high-tech\">Trump Administration Restricts H-1B Worker Visas Coveted By High Tech\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11652014/trump-administration-restricts-h-1b-worker-visas-coveted-by-high-tech\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/uscis-1_custom-377f855cafc2d8e2550bcdb050dddc14d2df3573.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“You see all these arguments that we want the best and the brightest coming here,” said John Goslow, an immigration attorney in Ann Arbor, Michigan. “Yet we’re seeing a full-frontal assault on just all aspects of immigration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For American businesses, it has a bottom-line impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Link Wilson, an architect who co-founded a firm in Bloomington, Minnesota, said finding enough qualified workers within the U.S. has been a problem for years, in part due to a shortage of architects. He said employers who turn to international applicants do so as a last resort, putting up with legal fees and ever-expanding visa approval times because they have no other choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just at the point where there’s no one else to hire,” said Wilson, who estimates his firm turned away about $1 million in projects last year because it didn’t have enough staff to handle them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months after taking office, Trump issued his “Buy American and Hire American” \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-executive-order-buy-american-hire-american/\">executive order\u003c/a> , directing Cabinet officials to suggest reforms to ensure that H-1B visas are awarded to the “most-skilled or highest-paid” applicants to help promote the hiring of Americans for jobs that might otherwise go to immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subsequent memos have allowed for greater discretion in denying applications without first requesting additional information from an applicant, tossed the deference given to people seeking to renew their H-1Bs, and raised concern that the government would revoke work permits for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11707255/what-silicon-valley-could-lose-if-trump-revokes-h-1b-spousal-work-visas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spouses of H-1B holders\u003c/a>. One order restricted companies’ ability to use H-1B workers off-site at a customer’s place of business, while another temporarily rescinded the option of paying for faster application processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11707158/indian-entrepreneurs-with-no-green-cards-pursue-silicon-valley-dreams-elsewhere\">Indian Entrepreneurs With No Green Cards Pursue Silicon Valley Dreams Elsewhere\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11707158/indian-entrepreneurs-with-no-green-cards-pursue-silicon-valley-dreams-elsewhere\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/USA_FamilyPhoto-1020x681.jpeg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Attorneys who handle these applications say one of the biggest shifts is an increase in “requests for evidence,” or RFEs, from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. An RFE can delay a visa for months or longer as applicants and employers are forced to submit additional documentation over things such as the applicability of a college degree to a prospective job or whether the wage being offered is appropriate. If the responses are unsatisfactory, a visa may be denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re just blocking the avenues so that employers will get frustrated and they won’t employ foreign nationals,” said Dakshini Sen, an immigration lawyer in Houston whose caseload is mostly H-1B applications. “We have to write and write and write and explain and explain and explain each and every point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/Immigration%20Forms%20Data/BAHA/h-1B-quarterly-requests-for-evidence-2015-2019-Q1-top-30-employers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USCIS data\u003c/a> released on Friday shows an increase in the number of completed H-1B applications receiving an RFE, from about 21 percent in the 2016 fiscal year to 38 percent last fiscal year. The number continued to rise in the first quarter of this fiscal year, to 60 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing number of applications with such requests were ultimately denied, while the approval rate among all applicants has fallen. Approvals also dipped in two other visa programs for foreign workers, including one for individuals with extraordinary abilities in areas such as science, sports and the arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Collins, a spokeswoman for USCIS, linked the changes to the president’s executive order, saying the goal was to reduce “frivolous” petitions and that “it is incumbent upon the petitioner, not the government” to prove eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some employers note traditional three-year renewable terms of H-1Bs have also been changing; one \u003ca href=\"https://nfap.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Doc-1-Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit\u003c/a> by an organization representing information technology companies claims some visas were valid for only a few days or had expired before they were even received.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712941/deported-oakland-nurse-reunites-with-children-in-the-bay-area-after-16-months\">Deported Oakland Nurse Reunites With Children in the Bay Area After 16 Months\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712941/deported-oakland-nurse-reunites-with-children-in-the-bay-area-after-16-months\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34481_Maria-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Meantime, a vague \u003ca href=\"https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?RIN=1615-AC13&pubId=201810\">entry\u003c/a> published in the Federal Register last fall advised that the Department of Homeland Security would propose additional revisions to focus on attracting “the best and the brightest” and to “ensure employers pay appropriate wages” to H-1B visa holders, which has raised alarms that the administration will move to narrow the definition of who qualifies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caught in the crosshairs are workers like Leo Wang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wang, 32, spent six years after college in his native China learning all he could about data and analytics. He got into the University of Southern California, interned at a major venture capital firm and wasted no time after finishing his master’s before starting on another degree. He couch-surfed, passed up an enticing foreign job offer and amassed educational debt all in pursuit of the dream that ultimately came true: A six-figure Silicon Valley job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As long as it took Wang to achieve his goal, it disappeared in record time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wang was working at Seagate Technology under an immigration provision known as Optional Practical Training, which gives those on student visas permission to work. But that expired last year, and because his H-1B application was in flux, he was forced to take a leave from Seagate and withdraw from the master’s program he was pursuing at Berkeley. He says he and his company dutifully responded to an RFE, compiling examples of his work at Seagate. But on Jan. 11, Wang got a final answer: He was denied an H-1B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I wanted was to be able to see my American dream,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Feist, an immigration attorney in Minneapolis, said talented foreigners discouraged by the visa process are beginning to look at opportunities in other countries, and she questions what that means for America’s future, especially if top-tier researchers who could contribute to science and medicine are turned away.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘At a time when the number of job vacancies are reaching historic highs due to labor shortages, now is not the time to restrict access to talent.’\u003ccite>a letter from CEOs for companies including Apple, Ford and Coca-Cola to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One of her clients, a computer systems analyst from India with a master’s degree from a U.S. college, filed his petition for an H-1B in April 2017 with 101 pages of documentation. He received an RFE, and a 176-page response was filed, with additional paperwork attempting to prove just how complicated the position was. He was denied. Feist filed a 282-page appeal, requesting that the file be reopened. Though the appeal was approved, there was a second RFE, which Feist said raises the same issues she already responded to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a U.S. work visa unlikely, that client is applying for permanent residency in Canada with his wife and U.S. citizen child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CEOs for companies including Apple, Ford and Coca-Cola penned a \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessroundtable.org/letter-to-department-of-homeland-security-on-immigration-policies\">letter\u003c/a> to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in August, saying immigration policy changes were undermining economic growth. “At a time when the number of job vacancies are reaching historic highs due to labor shortages,” they said, “now is not the time to restrict access to talent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A provision for immigration based on skills, education and employer needs dates back to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, and the visa now known as the H-1B has until recently enjoyed wide support among politicians on both the left and the right. A Pew Research Center \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewglobal.org/2019/01/22/majority-of-u-s-public-supports-high-skilled-immigration/\">survey\u003c/a> last year found broad approval for high-skilled immigrants among the public, as well, with support at 83 percent among Democrats polled and 73 percent of Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11648086/confusion-over-tps-work-permits-worries-employers-immigrants\">Employers, Immigrants Grapple With Uncertainty Over TPS Work Permits\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11648086/confusion-over-tps-work-permits-worries-employers-immigrants\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29269_IMG_1354-qut-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Trump has vacillated on the issue. During a March 2016 presidential debate, then-candidate Trump was asked about his opposition to visas for skilled workers, to which he \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/03/the-fox-news-gop-debate-transcript-annotated/?utm_term=.34ce5b34c70d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said\u003c/a>, “I’m changing” and that he saw such policies as a way to keep top international students in the U.S. “We absolutely have to be able to keep the brain power in this country,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His campaign followed that with a \u003ca href=\"http://web.archive.org/web/20160416001802/https:/www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-position-on-visas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement\u003c/a> saying: “The H-1B program is neither high-skilled nor immigration: these are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Trump again reverted to a more conciliatory note, \u003ca href=\"https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1083705208834834433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeting\u003c/a> that H1-B holders “can rest assured that changes are soon coming which will bring both simplicity and certainty to your stay, including a potential path to citizenship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in China now, Wang isn’t sure what to make of Trump’s words. He’s talked to a friend from Seagate, now at a Swedish firm, about openings there, and a former boss in Singapore has some prospects for him as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still believe in the American dream,” he says. “It’s just that I personally have to pursue it somewhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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One order restricted companies’ ability to use H-1B workers off-site at a customer’s place of business, while another temporarily rescinded the option of paying for faster application processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11707158/indian-entrepreneurs-with-no-green-cards-pursue-silicon-valley-dreams-elsewhere\">Indian Entrepreneurs With No Green Cards Pursue Silicon Valley Dreams Elsewhere\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11707158/indian-entrepreneurs-with-no-green-cards-pursue-silicon-valley-dreams-elsewhere\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/USA_FamilyPhoto-1020x681.jpeg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Attorneys who handle these applications say one of the biggest shifts is an increase in “requests for evidence,” or RFEs, from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. An RFE can delay a visa for months or longer as applicants and employers are forced to submit additional documentation over things such as the applicability of a college degree to a prospective job or whether the wage being offered is appropriate. If the responses are unsatisfactory, a visa may be denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re just blocking the avenues so that employers will get frustrated and they won’t employ foreign nationals,” said Dakshini Sen, an immigration lawyer in Houston whose caseload is mostly H-1B applications. “We have to write and write and write and explain and explain and explain each and every point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/Immigration%20Forms%20Data/BAHA/h-1B-quarterly-requests-for-evidence-2015-2019-Q1-top-30-employers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USCIS data\u003c/a> released on Friday shows an increase in the number of completed H-1B applications receiving an RFE, from about 21 percent in the 2016 fiscal year to 38 percent last fiscal year. The number continued to rise in the first quarter of this fiscal year, to 60 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing number of applications with such requests were ultimately denied, while the approval rate among all applicants has fallen. Approvals also dipped in two other visa programs for foreign workers, including one for individuals with extraordinary abilities in areas such as science, sports and the arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Collins, a spokeswoman for USCIS, linked the changes to the president’s executive order, saying the goal was to reduce “frivolous” petitions and that “it is incumbent upon the petitioner, not the government” to prove eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some employers note traditional three-year renewable terms of H-1Bs have also been changing; one \u003ca href=\"https://nfap.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Doc-1-Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit\u003c/a> by an organization representing information technology companies claims some visas were valid for only a few days or had expired before they were even received.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712941/deported-oakland-nurse-reunites-with-children-in-the-bay-area-after-16-months\">Deported Oakland Nurse Reunites With Children in the Bay Area After 16 Months\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712941/deported-oakland-nurse-reunites-with-children-in-the-bay-area-after-16-months\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34481_Maria-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Meantime, a vague \u003ca href=\"https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?RIN=1615-AC13&pubId=201810\">entry\u003c/a> published in the Federal Register last fall advised that the Department of Homeland Security would propose additional revisions to focus on attracting “the best and the brightest” and to “ensure employers pay appropriate wages” to H-1B visa holders, which has raised alarms that the administration will move to narrow the definition of who qualifies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caught in the crosshairs are workers like Leo Wang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wang, 32, spent six years after college in his native China learning all he could about data and analytics. He got into the University of Southern California, interned at a major venture capital firm and wasted no time after finishing his master’s before starting on another degree. He couch-surfed, passed up an enticing foreign job offer and amassed educational debt all in pursuit of the dream that ultimately came true: A six-figure Silicon Valley job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As long as it took Wang to achieve his goal, it disappeared in record time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wang was working at Seagate Technology under an immigration provision known as Optional Practical Training, which gives those on student visas permission to work. But that expired last year, and because his H-1B application was in flux, he was forced to take a leave from Seagate and withdraw from the master’s program he was pursuing at Berkeley. He says he and his company dutifully responded to an RFE, compiling examples of his work at Seagate. But on Jan. 11, Wang got a final answer: He was denied an H-1B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I wanted was to be able to see my American dream,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Feist, an immigration attorney in Minneapolis, said talented foreigners discouraged by the visa process are beginning to look at opportunities in other countries, and she questions what that means for America’s future, especially if top-tier researchers who could contribute to science and medicine are turned away.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘At a time when the number of job vacancies are reaching historic highs due to labor shortages, now is not the time to restrict access to talent.’\u003ccite>a letter from CEOs for companies including Apple, Ford and Coca-Cola to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One of her clients, a computer systems analyst from India with a master’s degree from a U.S. college, filed his petition for an H-1B in April 2017 with 101 pages of documentation. He received an RFE, and a 176-page response was filed, with additional paperwork attempting to prove just how complicated the position was. He was denied. Feist filed a 282-page appeal, requesting that the file be reopened. Though the appeal was approved, there was a second RFE, which Feist said raises the same issues she already responded to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a U.S. work visa unlikely, that client is applying for permanent residency in Canada with his wife and U.S. citizen child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CEOs for companies including Apple, Ford and Coca-Cola penned a \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessroundtable.org/letter-to-department-of-homeland-security-on-immigration-policies\">letter\u003c/a> to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in August, saying immigration policy changes were undermining economic growth. “At a time when the number of job vacancies are reaching historic highs due to labor shortages,” they said, “now is not the time to restrict access to talent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A provision for immigration based on skills, education and employer needs dates back to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, and the visa now known as the H-1B has until recently enjoyed wide support among politicians on both the left and the right. A Pew Research Center \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewglobal.org/2019/01/22/majority-of-u-s-public-supports-high-skilled-immigration/\">survey\u003c/a> last year found broad approval for high-skilled immigrants among the public, as well, with support at 83 percent among Democrats polled and 73 percent of Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11648086/confusion-over-tps-work-permits-worries-employers-immigrants\">Employers, Immigrants Grapple With Uncertainty Over TPS Work Permits\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11648086/confusion-over-tps-work-permits-worries-employers-immigrants\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29269_IMG_1354-qut-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Trump has vacillated on the issue. During a March 2016 presidential debate, then-candidate Trump was asked about his opposition to visas for skilled workers, to which he \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/03/the-fox-news-gop-debate-transcript-annotated/?utm_term=.34ce5b34c70d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said\u003c/a>, “I’m changing” and that he saw such policies as a way to keep top international students in the U.S. “We absolutely have to be able to keep the brain power in this country,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His campaign followed that with a \u003ca href=\"http://web.archive.org/web/20160416001802/https:/www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-position-on-visas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement\u003c/a> saying: “The H-1B program is neither high-skilled nor immigration: these are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Trump again reverted to a more conciliatory note, \u003ca href=\"https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1083705208834834433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeting\u003c/a> that H1-B holders “can rest assured that changes are soon coming which will bring both simplicity and certainty to your stay, including a potential path to citizenship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in China now, Wang isn’t sure what to make of Trump’s words. He’s talked to a friend from Seagate, now at a Swedish firm, about openings there, and a former boss in Singapore has some prospects for him as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>House Democrats on Friday introduced a resolution to block the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726521/watch-live-trump-to-declare-national-emergency-to-help-fund-southern-border-wall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national emergency declaration\u003c/a> that President Donald Trump issued to fund his long-sought wall along the U.S-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the House would vote on the measure on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727216/california-15-other-states-sue-trump-over-border-wall-emergency-declaration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California, along with 15 other states\u003c/a>, filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration over the emergency declaration. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the suit by \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AGBecerra/status/1097664494199808001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying\u003c/a>, “We’re suing President Trump to stop him from unilaterally robbing taxpayer funds lawfully set aside by Congress for the people of our states.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move sets up a fight that could result in Trump’s first veto. It starts the clock on a constitutional clash between Trump and Democrats and sets up a vote by the full House as soon as next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic-controlled House is sure to pass the measure, and the GOP-run Senate may adopt it as well despite Trump’s opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m confident that most Democrats will vote for it in the House,” said Bay-Area Congresswoman and resolution co-sponsor Barbara Lee. “I hope we get Republican support because this should be bipartisan. Because it’s really about the constitution and the separation of powers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/border-wall\">The Fight Over the Border Wall\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/border-wall\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/BorderWall-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Any Trump veto would likely be sustained, but the upcoming battle will test Republican support for Trump’s move, which even some of his allies view as a stretch — and a slap at lawmakers’ control over the power of the federal purse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding for the border wall has been in contention since the start of the year when the inability to settle on a budget resulted in the longest government shutdown in history. Causing issues at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718330/california-airports-create-contingency-plans-for-unpaid-federal-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">airports\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716115/locals-pick-up-the-slack-and-the-trash-as-government-shutdown-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national parks \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101869197/as-government-shutdown-continues-californias-federal-workers-suffer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wage delays for federal workers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A staff aide introduced the measure during a short pro forma session of the House in which Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., presided over an almost empty chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the president is attempting is an unconstitutional power grab,” said Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, the sponsor of the resolution, on a call with reporters. “There is no emergency at the border.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s declaration of a national emergency gives him access to about $3.6 billion in funding for military construction projects to divert to border fencing. But the administration is more likely to tap funding from a federal asset forfeiture fund and Defense Department anti-drug efforts first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi said that the House measure would “reassert our system of checks and balances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘This clearly is an abuse of power and once again it reflects that this president doesn’t understand that this is a democracy and he has three branches of government.’\u003ccite>Bay Area Congresswoman Barbara Lee\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Should the House and the Senate initially approve the measure, Congress seems unlikely to muster the two-thirds majorities in each chamber that would be needed later to override a certain Trump veto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure to block Trump’s edict will be closely watched in the Senate, where moderates such as Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., have signaled they would back it. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is only a reluctant supporter of Trump on the topic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s GOP allies promised they would uphold any veto denying Democrats the two-thirds votes required to overcome one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats’ angst over Congress’ power of the purse is unwarranted, especially since the commander in chief’s authority to redirect military funds for a national emergency is affirmed in a law passed by their own branch,” said top House Judiciary Committee Republican Doug Collins of Georgia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battle is over an emergency declaration Trump issued to access billions of dollars beyond what Congress has authorized to start erecting border barriers. Building his proposed wall was the most visible trademark of Trump’s presidential campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week Congress approved a vast spending bill providing nearly $1.4 billion to build 55 miles (89 kilometers) of border barriers in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley while preventing a renewed government shutdown. That measure represented a rejection of Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion to construct more than 200 miles (322 kilometers).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides signing the bill, Trump also declared a national emergency and used other authorities that he says give him access to an additional $6.6 billion for wall building. That money would be transferred from a federal asset forfeiture fund, Defense Department anti-drug efforts and a military construction fund. Federal officials have yet to identify which projects would be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castro said he has already garnered support from a majority of the Democratic-controlled House as co-sponsors and that he has at least one GOP sponsor, Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castro’s measure says Trump’s emergency declaration “is hereby terminated.” Castro chairs the 38-member Congressional Hispanic Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi wrote in a letter to her fellow lawmakers that the Republican president’s “decision to go outside the bounds of the law to try to get what he failed to achieve in the constitutional legislative process violates the Constitution and must be terminated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writer Andrew Taylor in Washington D.C. contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>House Democrats on Friday introduced a resolution to block the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726521/watch-live-trump-to-declare-national-emergency-to-help-fund-southern-border-wall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national emergency declaration\u003c/a> that President Donald Trump issued to fund his long-sought wall along the U.S-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the House would vote on the measure on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727216/california-15-other-states-sue-trump-over-border-wall-emergency-declaration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California, along with 15 other states\u003c/a>, filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration over the emergency declaration. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the suit by \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AGBecerra/status/1097664494199808001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying\u003c/a>, “We’re suing President Trump to stop him from unilaterally robbing taxpayer funds lawfully set aside by Congress for the people of our states.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move sets up a fight that could result in Trump’s first veto. It starts the clock on a constitutional clash between Trump and Democrats and sets up a vote by the full House as soon as next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic-controlled House is sure to pass the measure, and the GOP-run Senate may adopt it as well despite Trump’s opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m confident that most Democrats will vote for it in the House,” said Bay-Area Congresswoman and resolution co-sponsor Barbara Lee. “I hope we get Republican support because this should be bipartisan. Because it’s really about the constitution and the separation of powers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/border-wall\">The Fight Over the Border Wall\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/border-wall\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/BorderWall-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Any Trump veto would likely be sustained, but the upcoming battle will test Republican support for Trump’s move, which even some of his allies view as a stretch — and a slap at lawmakers’ control over the power of the federal purse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding for the border wall has been in contention since the start of the year when the inability to settle on a budget resulted in the longest government shutdown in history. Causing issues at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718330/california-airports-create-contingency-plans-for-unpaid-federal-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">airports\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716115/locals-pick-up-the-slack-and-the-trash-as-government-shutdown-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national parks \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101869197/as-government-shutdown-continues-californias-federal-workers-suffer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wage delays for federal workers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A staff aide introduced the measure during a short pro forma session of the House in which Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., presided over an almost empty chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the president is attempting is an unconstitutional power grab,” said Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, the sponsor of the resolution, on a call with reporters. “There is no emergency at the border.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s declaration of a national emergency gives him access to about $3.6 billion in funding for military construction projects to divert to border fencing. 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