Posted on 05/16/2019 12:20:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Donald Trump announced a broad plan to reform border security and legal immigration during a speech on Thursday afternoon, but the proposal faces an uphill battle for consensus even among the Republican Party's own ranks. And Democrats are sure to oppose it as it fails to address key issues.
Trump said the plan provides a "clear contrast" with other proposals he's deemed unsatisfactory. "Democrats are proposing open borders, lower wages, and frankly, lawless chaos," he said in the Rose Garden. "We are proposing an immigration plan that puts the jobs, wages and safety of American workers first."
"Our proposal is pro-American, pro-immigrant and pro-worker," he said, before laying out some of his proposal.
There hasn't been clear buy-in from Republicans on Capitol Hill on the plan spearheaded by Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, and even within the White House, there are divisions over how to approach immigration policy, though one administration official disputes that.
A senior Republican familiar with internal and external White House discussions told CNN that while some at the White House, such as Trump's immigration adviser, Stephen Miller, want to focus the West Wing's efforts mostly on border security issues, others, such as Kushner, say they are willing have a broader approach. This broader approach is likely to eventually include using the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to strike a deal with Democrats, the source said.
Trump's Thursday event also served as another opportunity to press his case for the building of his long-sought US-Mexico border wall and rally his base with the hardline rhetoric against illegal immigration that has marked his campaign trail speeches. The senior Republican source also questioned how conservatives will convince Democrats, who control of the House of Representatives, to come to the negotiation table.
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It means that stopping illegal immagration is a far more stronger position to campaign from than “hey, let’s halt all immagration”, which is trying to get too much from an electorate that doesnt have a good enough understanding of why limiting all immagration is a good thing right now.
an electorate that doesnt have a good enough understanding of why limiting all immagration is a good thing
I’m typing this on a phone, dude. Is that ok?
If you dont like my position, then articulate a retort that shows you are more mature than some lib on Reddit that thinks a typo = argument invalid.
You think you got it bad?
I’m typing this on an Etch-a-Sketch!
What happened to “Our country is full”?
The electorate fully understands the laws of supply and demand. More labor supply via immigration means lower wages. It’s a pretty simple concept.
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