DACA

On Tuesday, the Hispanic Access Foundation opened the application process for the Our DREAMS Scholarship. The Foundation said through the scholarship, as many as 50 recipients $500 each in monetary relief for filing or renewal fees for their DACA, TPS applications ...

Now that the threat of a government shutdown is behind lawmakers, Dan Newhouse says he plans to push Congress to address the Ag labor shortage.  Newhouse says he is working with Georgia’s Doug Collins, the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, to pick up where the 115th Congress left off.   T...

On Wednesday, Representative Dan Newhouse joined south Texas Representative Will Hurd, calling on Congress to act on a bipartisan solution of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, better known as DACA.  Newhouse said members of both parties must come together on legislation that can get 218 votes in the House, 60 votes in the Senate, and then on to the President for his signature.  ... Read

On Friday, President Trump announced that the federal government shutdown had come to end, and at 35 days it was the longest in U.S. history.  From here, discussions are expected to begin in earnest over boarder security.  But Representative Dan Newhouse said hopes that both parties will be able to address DACA.   “...

There’s a lot of work for the lame duck Congress to get done and not a lot of time to do it.  In addition to the 2018 Farm bill, lawmakers need to address the 2019 appropriation bills and other pieces of legislation between now and the start of recess, which for the House is December 13th and December 14th in the Senate.   W...

The United States is dealing with an immigration crisis, and the agriculture community in many ways feels the most direct impact by decisions made, or not made in Washington D.C.  Conservative House Republicans say they want immigration reform addressed before they will vote on the House Farm Bill proposal.  Re...

A complete overhaul of the American agricultural guest worker program is a major part of a House of Representatives’ plan to fix DACA.  DACA is currently tied up in an immigration reform battle on Capitol Hill.   Virginia Republican Bob Goodlatte, as well as three other Republicans, recently introduced the “Securing America’s Future Act.”  The bill has several provisio...

Washington Representative Dan Newhouse is one of a group of 34 House Republicans who authored a letter to Speaker Paul Ryan asking that a fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program be put before the House prior to the end of the year...

The clock is ticking in DC to fix DACA.  Earlier this year, President Trump gave lawmakers until March to come up with a permeate fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.  Central Washington’s Dan Newhouse said it’s time for members of both parties to work on a long term solution.  He noted this is wh...

Representative Dan Newhouse joined Republicans and Democrats last week, asking the Department of Homeland Security to extend the renewal deadline for DACA beneficiaries.  The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program has come under pressure after the Trump Administration said Congress has six months to address DACA or make it law.  Ne...