Could face deportation as the Trump Administration ins temporary ends temporary protected status enacted in 2001. This comes as trump says he will only extend daca for nearly 800,000 young dreamers if democrats fund a border wall. Then the reverend dr. William barber and others launch a new Poor Peoples Campaign inspired by dr. Martin luther kings 1968 acaction. We believe that we e need a theained moral push back chalallenges the immoral Public Policy direction with the moral vision. I like to cacall it restoring moral dissent, moral dreams, and moral to fibrillation. Amy we will speak with reverend William Barber as well as jonathanal minister hartgrove, who as a young man, worked for the prosegregationist senator Strom Thurmond. Today he is organizing with reverend barber in what they call fusion politics. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In a major attack against immigrant communities in the United States, the Trump Administration has announced it is ending the temporary protected status for up to 250,000 salvadorans who have been living in the United States since 2001. The temporary protected status, known as tps, had given the salvadorans legal permission to live and work in the United States. It was enacted in 2001 after a devastating pair of earthquakes hit el salvador. The announcement sparked immediate protests at the white house and a News Conference in new york city. This is salvadoran tps recipient urania reyes. We are begging to our President Trump and of the foric to stand up and ask our permanent, not temporary, legalization. We have been in the u. S. For more than 20 years and they did not give us any permanent status. I think we are honorable people. We do the work other people dont want to do. We are very little money. We pay for housing and taxes and school for the children, for my three children, and they go to the school. And today, i feel very sad because they want to take the tps from us. Amy the salvadorans will now have 18 months to leave the u. S. Or find a legal way to remain in the United States. The move will also affect nearly 200,000 children of salvadoran parents who have tps. These children are u. S. Citizens. On monday, many immigration advocates expressed concern the United States is planning to support the salvadorans back to a country gripped by violence and poverty, which has been exacerbated and fueled by decades of u. S. Military and economic intervention in el salvador and central america. This is Community Organizer sara ramirez speaking outside the protest at the white house. Never will a physical wall stop migration because the basis of our coming to this country is not because we thought it would be fun or just wanted to. It is because of situations in our country that work historically provoked, not us, that forced us to migrate. Amy last year, the Trump Administration announced it is also ending temporary protected status for tens of thousands of haitian, nicaraguan, and sudanese immigrants s living in the United States. Well have more on the Trump Administrations tps announcement after headlines. In more news on immigration, President Trump is meeting with republican and democratic lawmakers at the white house today to debate the future of nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants known as dreamers and funding for trumps border wall. Trump is demanding 33 billion over a decade to fund the expansion of the militarized border wall and to hire 10,000 additional immigration agents in exchange for protections for the undocumented young people who had been protected under daca thats deferred action for childhood arrivals before trump rescinded the obamaera policy late last year. Immigrant Rights Groups and democratic lawmakers have slammed trump for trying to use the dreamers in order to win his farright, antiimmigrant demands. White house chief of staff john kelly, formerly the secretary of Homeland Security, has been in charge of reaching out to lawmakers for the talks and will be at todays meeting. Over the weekend, while speaking at a press conference at camp david, President Trump vowed there will be no resolution on daca without billions of dollars in funding for the border wall. Pres. Trump we want the wall. What is going to happen . Were not going to have daca. Amy in news from washington, special Counsel Robert Mueller is likely planning to interview President Trump as part of muellers investigation into whether the Trump Campaign colluded with russia during the 2016 election. The New York Times reports mueller told trumps lawyers last month thahat he will prproy seek to interview the president , although he has not yet sent a formal request for the interview. So far, mueller has brought charges against four former trump aides, including Trump Campaign manager paul manafort, Trump Campaign adviser rick gates, and Trump CampaignForeign Policy adviser george papadopoulos. Speculation about Oprah Winfrey potentially running for president in 2020 is continuing to build, following oprahs powerful Lifetime Achievement award acceptance speech at the Golden Globes on sunday night. On monday, a number of democratic strategists came out endorsing or praising the idea. Meanwhile, President Trumps daughter and advisor ivanka trump also tweeted out a celebration of oprahs Golden Globes speech and hollywoods new times up initiative to stop Sexual Harassment and violence. Ivanka tweeted just saw oprahs empowering inspiring speech at last nights goldenglobes. Lets all come together, women men, say timesup united ivankas tweet sparked widespread criticism online, given that her father has been accused of Sexual Harassment or assault or misconduct by at least 16 women. President trumps nominee for secretary of the department of health and Human Services is slated to appear before the Senate Finance committee for his confirmation hearing today. Alex azar is a former executive of the multibilliondollar Pharmaceutical Company eli lilly. President trump nominated azar to head the heath and Human Services department after trumps former pick, tom price, resigned from the position amid a scandal over his use of military and private charter flights, which cost taxpayers up to 1 million. On monday, politico reported that when alex azar was a Top Executive at the drug company eli lilly, it tested the companys highly profitable erectile dysfunction drug on children in efforts to extend a multibilliondollar patent that was soon to expire. Critics say azar helped the company game the patent system, testing a sex drug on children in order to extend their profits. S. Officials from north korea and sosouth korerea met today inin e Demilitarized Zone for the first highlevel talks in more than two years, amid rising tensions on the korean peninsula, largely sparked by President Trumps repeated threats to launch a Nuclear Strike against north korea. During the meeting, north korea said it would send a delegation of athletes, officials, and cheerleaders to the 2018 winter Olympic Games in pyeongchang, south korea, in february. The two countries will also reinstate a military hotline that was s suspended for nearly two years. In tunisia, antiausterity protests are spreading across the country after the government announced it was raising taxes and hiking fuel prices. At least one protester was killed and five others were injured amid a Police Crackdown against the protests on monday. The Tunisian Interior Ministry says the 55yearold protester likely died after inhaling tear gas. In turkey, the deputy Prime Minister has announced the state of emergency imposed after a july 2016 failed cououp attempt will be extended for another three monthshs. This state of emergency will be extended again. As a procedure the National Security council needs to take and advisor decision, and this must be discussed in the cabinet meeting. Probably this will be on the agenda during the next meeting of the National Security council. Amy activists say the turkish government has used the failed military coup and the state of emergency to enact a farreaching crackdown against dissidents, journalists, teachers, intellectuals, human rights activists, opposition lawmakers, and kurdish communities in turkey. Back in the United States, in an unexpected move, the republicancontrolled federal Energy Regulatory commission has rejected the trump admininistrations prproposal to bolster coalfired and Nuclear Power plants. Trump has repeatedly promised to bolster Coal Production and the number of coal jobs in the United States. But his plan to do so, which was outlined last fall by Energy Secretary rick perry, has faced widespread opposition from not only environmentalists, but also a wide array of corporate interests, incncluding dow chchemical and koch industries. Mumultiple former energy commisission chairs have alsoo criticized t the plan, saying gt would raraise electricy prpric across the northeast and midwest. In alabama, residents have raised more than 150,000 to support tina johnson, whose home was burned to the ground only months after she came forward to publicly accuse Alabama Republican Senate candidate roy moore of groping her without her consent back in 1991. The destruction of johnsons home on january 3 is being investigated as possible arson. Johnson says she suspects the fire is connected to her decision to come forward about her experiences with roy moore, who lost decembers highly controversial special Senate Election after at least 9 women, including johnson, came forward to accuse him of sexually harassing or assaulting them when they were teenagers, one as young as 14 years old. In washington, d. C. , members of the Lgbt Community are speaking out about the brutal murder of a Young African american lesbian named kerrice lewis. The 23yearold woman was shot and burned alive in the trunk of a car on december 28, in one of the final homicides of last year. After minimal Media Coverage of the possible hate crime, residents and activists took to twitter using the hashtag say hername to mourn the death of kerrice lewis. In harlem, new york, hundreds attended the funeral of erica garner who died at the age of 27 december 30 after an asthma induced heart attack, four months after giving birth to her second child. Ericas father, eric garner was killed when Police Officers in Staten Island russell tim to the ground, applied a fatal chokehold inn 2014. Inside the church last night, erica was usually giants eulogized by al sharpton who talked about ericas unflinching determination to get justice for her father. Sharpton said while they say she died of a heart attack, no her heart was attacked that day, referring to july 27, 2014, the day Police Killed her father. Sharpton went on to say, justice is in a coma in the eric garner case. The Police Officer, then ok taleo, still works in the nypd. There have also been a federal civil rights charges brought against him and others responsible for r eric garners debt. Also attending the funeral, hiphop artist and actor common in the father of michael brown, killed by white Police Officer in ferguson, missouri, to exaggerate eric garner was killed instead and island. There was conflict in the midst of the funeral over the exclusion of ericas grandmother eric garners mother gwen carr, causing a number of people to leave, including a group of mothers of children killed by new york police like katiadou diallo, the mother of amadou diallo. A number of new york Police Officers walked with ericas coffin out of the church. After the funeral, several dozen black lives matter activists took to the streets. At least one person was arrested. Before they marched, i spoke to qb of shut it down nyc, a friend of erica garner. Would do a rally weather was nine degrees or 10 degrees, three people were four people, we marched to her fathers memorial. We said a few words and that was something that just became a part of our lives. That is a unique situation were you have to grow up in front of the world. The woworld watched your father not get justice, then youre pushed into the limelight. You are basically living a life you did not ask for. She did not ask to be an activist. It was kind of a choice made for her. She is demeaning what all of us are demanding, pantaleo to be fired. The officer who murdered her father. He is still actively working with nypd. There is no justice and there still isnt justice. Just at nypd at her funeral, that is the last thing in the world she would have wanted, to have the nypd in the church, to be involved in the funeral. I want herer to be remembered by how much she loved her children. She just had a threemonthold. She had an eightyearold. She loved those kids. I want people to remember that. She wanted justice. She never got it and she died never getting it. The fight is not over. It is not over. What we want . Justice if we dont get it . Shut it down amy we are standing of the church where eric garner was memorialized and police are arresting one of the protesters outside. The man is still being paid for murdering erica garner. Please keep that in mind. That man is still on salary with the nypd and his daughter is now dead. Amy thats valerie ross, one of scores of f protestors who tooko the streets after the funeral of erica garner. She will be laid to rest today in linden, new jersey. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We turn now to look at the battle over immigration in washington. PrPresident Trump is it with republican and democratic lawmakers at the white house today over his offer to protect the nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants known as dreamers in exchange for 18 billion to build a border wall. The meeting comes one day after the Trump Administration announced it is ending the temporary protected status for his many as 250,000 salvadorans who have been living in the u. S. Since 2001. Temper a status known as tps, given the salvadorans legal permission to live and work in the United States, enacted in 2001 after a devastating pair of earthquakes hit el salvador. It sparked immediate protests outside the white house and in several cities. A tps recipient spoke. We are begging to our President Trump and to the ask foro stand up and our permanent, not temporary, legalization. We have been in the u. S. For more than 20 years and they did not give us any permanent status. I think we are honorable people. We do the work other people dont want to do. We are in very little money. We pay for housing and taxes and school for the children. For my three children, and they go to the school. And today, i feel very sad because they want to take the tps from us. The people who brought our children here with us and who brought them here when they were young, it is not their fault. It is our fault. We were looking for an improvement after our country was destroyed by war. And after that, in 2001, it was destroyed by the earthquake im jane were 13, 2001. I hope they give us legal status. That is what we are asking. We are honorable people, worthy of this country, in this country is our country because we spend our lives here. Amy the Trump Administration has already said it will end to protected status for tens of thousands of haitians, nicaraguans the sudanese progress living in the u. S. For more, we are joined now by two guests. Rodman is a student Stony Brook University and a member of make the road new york. He is a u. S. Ci