Isn’t this the same “Durbin and Graham” deal that POTUS rejected weeks ago?
Pretty much the same deal, doesn’t stop visa lottery, just modifies chain migration (not significant) and spreads wall funding out over a decade.
Screw them.
One should ask, is it a DACA deal that President Trump would sign? He has already repeatedly signaled what he absolutely postively would NOT sign.
There has to be -
1. ADEQUATE funding for the Wall. Not for a “study” or “feasibility”, but real construction of a solid and very real wall.
2. An end to immigration selection “lotteries”, to be replaced entirely by merit-based and verifiable expressions on the part of the applicant that they really WANT to come to America to make it a better place, in accordance with long-standing principles of the American dream.
3. A vast curtailment of “chain migration, limited to only either parents, or foreign-born children. Siblings, various aunts, uncles and cousins would have to apply on their own, after demonstrating some kind of merit and a genuine appreciation of what it takes to be an American citizen.
4. Lastly, and only on the condition the first three conditions are met and enacted, those of the childhood arrival group of irregular immigration procedures will be considered, on a case-by-case basis, for inclusion in DACA, definitely NOT a blanket amnesty, and NOT extending to parents, only for a VERY long period before naturalization, twelve years continuous residency as a minimum, compared to five years for those who enter according to existing procedures.