Posted on 01/25/2018 6:10:33 PM PST by Red Steel
Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., a key senator in the talks to find an immigration deal, came out against President Trump's proposal for a grand bargain, in large part because it would curb legal immigration.
"Dreamers should not be held hostage to President Trump's crusade to tear families apart and waste billions of American tax dollars on an ineffective wall," Durbin said in a statement.
Trump's plan would put 1.8 million immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children on a decade-long path to citizenship. But that comes at a high price for Democrats, as he also wants $25 billion for a border wall and other security measures.
Trump also wants to end chain migration, the process by which immigrants can get their extended family members to America, and also wants to end the diversity visa lottery.
Durbin said that's all too much to ask.
"The White House claims to be compromising because the President now agrees with the overwhelming majority of Americans that Dreamers should have a pathway to citizenship," he said. "But his plan would put the administration's entire hardline immigration agenda — including massive cuts to legal immigration — on the backs of these young people."
Durbin also seemed to dismiss Trump's plan by saying senators from both parties are still working on their own proposal. Many progressive groups also came out against Trump's plan Thursday night.
However, Republicans have stressed that Congress needs to find a solution that Trump can also support, not just one that can survive a close Senate vote.
Chain migration. They must protect that at all costs, as they will no longer be a national party if their repopulation efforts are halted.
The Dems would give the other two (the Wall and the Lottery) for DACA...especially because DACA gives chain migration a shot in the arm and a ‘deal’ leaving chain migration alone, even for a wall, would be considered a HUGE Trump defeat.
Just hard to see how there can be a ‘compromise’ here.
You have to have never dealt with many of them to think they won’t vote Dem. The do not think like most Americans do.
And they are radicalized by Soros funded groups from what I hear.
To be fair RR was lied to by the rats and some of his advisers on border security etc etc.(Just like the SCJ)In hindsight we should have built the wall way back then but I dont remember the urgency like it is now.Trump has the benefit of history with how the rats lied about the issue.
To be fair RR was lied to by the rats and some of his advisers on border security etc etc.(Just like the SCJ)In hindsight we should have built the wall way back then but I dont remember the urgency like it is now.Trump has the benefit of history with how the rats lied about the issue.
You know it.
The Democrats are doomed to failure until they except the fact that ‘the wall’, ‘chain migration’, and ‘diversity lottery’ are part to an immigration plan. It’s only afterwords does decisions on DACA and Dreamers are side issues to the immigration debate. You can’t have one without the other without getting burned by the Dems.
Trump, you magnificent bastard.
Agreed.I quit listening when he shouted down callers over that issue.It showed that money was more important to him and the same goes for the EIB.
Kind of seems like the have been bought off or threatened.
Or the other waste of money the great wall of china.
Levin 1
Trump 1
They both have won one election ;)
Mark was on a school board.. apples and oranges I know. but if we are just talking election wins, they are even.
Complaining about deporting illegals and their illegal families is a bad thing to run on for the democrats. since that is a winning issue for Trump. Trump won because that is what he said he would do.
I wont ever forget that.
Conservatives are always coming up with excuses to explain why Reagan signed off on amnesty. Sorry, but he doesn’t deserve to be protected. He screwed up and unfortunately the country has paid the price for it!
“Overwhelming Majority of Americans”, where DO these people get their information, from Mad Magazine?
“Many Progressive groups also came out against Trump’s plan”——READ MY TAGLINE.
Just as an afterthought, wouldn’t the WALL be considered a SHOVEL READY JOB?
They are not excuses they are facts.You see it another way and thats fine.
2018 is very important, vote
It’ll land on Trump’s desk no doubt.
Hopefully Trump will veto it.
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