Victorina Morales

A young woman in a hijab shows her phone screen to another young woman whose back is turned to the camera. On the phone is Donald Trump.

Washington just spent a month in gridlock over the wall. Will Trump’s State of the Union speech change anything?

February 4, 2019Immigration

In Trump’s 2018 address, he outlined a four-pillar plan for immigration reform. Since the speech, he’s focused on funding for a border wall, which caused the stalemate and the longest government shutdown in US history.

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