As the federal government partially shut down at the stroke of midnight early Saturday morning, progressive activists presented a united front with congressional Democratic leadership. “When Trump rejected a bipartisan immigration deal and ended negotiations, he threw the entire government into chaos,” MoveOn executive director Ilya Sheyman said in a statement. Progressive immigration activists have long advocated for the Dream Act, a bill that which would grant permanent legal status to young undocumented immigrants who arrived as children. (Back in August, Gutíerrez had insisted that Democrats needed to vote down any bill that funded the border wall.) Regardless, some advocates believe that the border wall itself has taken on an undue level of importance.

Source: Huffington Post January 20, 2018 22:07 UTC