Posted on 10/09/2017 4:03:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Lawmakers who favor a deal to protect some 700,000 young immigrants facing possible deportation because of the end of the Obama administration’s DACA program are seeking to drive a wedge between President Trump and hard-liners on his staff, launching appeals directly to a president who they see as potentially sympathetic to people brought illegally to the U.S. as children.
In his public comments, Trump has shown an unwillingness to be boxed in by his most hard-line advisors on immigration. He initially wavered on what to do with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which has protected the young immigrants known as Dreamers, then openly contradicted Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions hours after the attorney general announced the end of the program last month.
The day that announcement was made, Trump initially said that only Congress could step in and protect the Dreamers, who will begin losing their work permits and deportation deferrals starting in March. By day’s end, he had softened, writing on Twitter that if Congress failed to act, he would “revisit the issue.”
It’s that tendency of the president to rely on his own instincts and buck his staff’s advice that Democratic lawmakers, some Republicans and advocates of immigrants hope to capitalize on as negotiations get underway in earnest to come up with legislation to provide legal status for Dreamers.
On Sunday, the White House demanded harsh terms from lawmakers. The proposals read like a wish-list from immigration hardliners in the administration, including Trump’s speech writer and senior policy director Stephen Miller, who used to work for Sessions.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
They labelled this opinion piece as a “report”.
“Immigration hardliners” = Ordinary American opinion for oh, about the last 240 years
Hardliners on his staff???? I sure wish there were...
ILLEGALS GO HOME !
Don’t believe that 700,000 number.
There were that many in the illegal DACA program at the end of the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
Trump let it operate as if were legal for 8 more months.
The bill Grahamnesty is backing broadens considerably the eligibility to 3 million or more.
LAT? I though they’ve been telling all for many months now that it’s Trump who is king of the hardliners?
They can’t seem to make up their minds. Very odd.
Sadly you are right .
It’s amnesty for millions .
Trump was playing golf with Grahamnesty on Sunday sealing the betrayal behind our back .
We are screwed by Trump.
Trump was playing Golf with
Grahamnesty on Sunday .
The 70 point scam is all theatre folks.
It’s Amnesty for millions .
“Prospects of a deal for ‘Dreamers’ may hinge on separating Trump from hardliners...”
Trump PROMISED tight border security, and he plans to get it one way or the other.
So the ‘hardliners’ they wish to separate Trump from are the 63 MILLION Americans who voted for him.
F__K dreamers
Ya notice that they treat President Trump like some kind of moron that only does the whim of the people around him. They haven’t learned anything, have they?
He said he’ll sign anything they send over (essentially.) The Democrats have not agreed to border security, nor will they, and if it’s included in the bill, they will make sure no money gets appropriated.
They gave us border security in Simpson-Mazzoli. They then undermined it.
During the Bush administration, Congress authorized border security measures and a 10,000-person increase in the Border patrol. All they ever hired were enough to replace those who retired or resigned. They never got around to appropriating the money for the additional 10,000 agents.
We’re being scammed. But that’s not surprising, given these quotes from Donald Trump in the middle of 2015 (just 2 1/2 years ago, just months before he started running for president):
(July 26)
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/259589/donald-trump-endorses-amnesty-illegal-aliens-daniel-greenfield
“Now, a lot of these people are helping us, whether it’s the grapes, or whether it’s jobs, and sometimes it’s jobs, in all fairness, I love our country, but sometimes it’s jobs that a citizen of the United States doesn’t want to do. I mean, there are jobs that a lot of people don’t want to do. I want to move them out, and we’re going to move them back in.
“I mean, a lot of people don’t understand that, but the DREAMers, it’s a tough situation, we’re going to do something, and one of the things we’re going to do is expedite — when somebody’s terrific, we want them back here.
“I have to tell you: Some of these people have been here, they’ve done a good job. You know, in some cases, sadly, they’ve been living under the shadows. ... If somebody’s been outstanding, we try and work something out.”
[The article continues] This is in line with what CNN’s Chris Moody reported Trump saying during a press conference in Chicago at the end of June. When asked what he would do about the illegal immigrants already residing in the country once the border was secured, Trump replied, “give them a path,” according to Moody.
https://soundcloud.com/glennbeck/beck-blitz-donald-trumppro-amnesty
(As of July 14)
http://liberteanow.us/2015/07/14/2601/
Trump: You have to give them a path. You have 20 million, 30 million, nobody knows what it is. It used to be 11 million. Now, today I hear it’s 11, but I don’t think it’s 11. I actually heard you probably have 30 million. You have to give them a path, and you have to make it possible for them to succeed. You have to do that.
(As of August 10)
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422351/donald-trump-immigration-amnesty-build-wall
“Asked about his immigration ideas on CNN, Trump was a mess, beginning with the old “jobs Americans won’t do” canard favored by open-borders proponents (a canard because it always leaves out the relevant qualifier: “at current wages”), then suggesting that we should deport the millions of illegals who are already here only to turn around and bring them back (”I want to move them out, and we’re going to move them back in, and let them be legal.” This process would include those brought here as young children, who will be deported and recycled based on the criterion of whether they are — Trump’s word — “terrific.” What might constitute a federal terrificness standard remains unclear. “We’re going to do something,” Trump said. “I’ve been giving it so much thought. You know you have a, on a humanitarian basis, you have a lot of deep thought going into this, believe me. I actually have a big heart.”
[The article continues] Deporting some 11 million illegals who have for many years evaded deportation only to reimport them under an expedited legal immigration system, the contours of which currently are undefined, and then granting them some sort of permanent legal status is simply another variation on amnesty, and a complicated, expensive, and thick-headed version of amnesty at that. Like the proposed reform program of 2007, which would have purportedly required illegals to be present in their country of origin when applying for legal status, this isn’t just amnesty — it’s also amnesty-laundering.
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