The workers and the wall, changes came this week to both plans

WYP Panel Discusses a Major Blow to the Border Wall Plan and New Legislation to Give Immigrant Workers a Path to Citizenship

A Texas Federal Judge and one in California block the Trump administration from drawing billions of dollars in military funding to fund the border wall. The El Paso judge called the move unlawful without congressional approval. Meanwhile, the House of Republicans passed new legislation that would give more than a million immigrant agricultural workers a chance to become United States Citizens. Critics call the new Farm Workforce Modernization Act mass amnesty.

HOUSTON - The House on Wednesday passed a contentious agricultural bill that would likely put more than a million illegal immigrants on a pathway to legal status as part of what supporters say is a vital modernization of the industry’s workforce -- but that immigration hawks blasted as a “large-scale amnesty.”

The Farm Workforce Modernization Act passed 260-165, with support from both Democrats and Republicans. The bill provides a process for undocumented farmworkers to seek a temporary five-and-a-half-year “Certified Agricultural Worker” status if they have worked for approximately six months in the industry in the last two years.

A federal judge on Friday prohibited President Donald Trump from tapping $2.5 billion in military funding to build high-priority segments of his prized border wall in California, Arizona and New Mexico.

Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. in Oakland acted in two lawsuits filed by California and by activists who contended that the money transfer was unlawful and that building the wall would pose environmental threats.