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Trump Feeling The Pressure To Get Dreamer Deal Done
Townhall.com ^ | Jan 12, 2018 | Donald Lambro

Posted on 01/11/2018 9:46:22 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom

WASHINGTON -- President Trump continued to soften a few of his hardcore positions on immigration Tuesday at an extraordinary, bipartisan, deal-cutting meeting with lawmakers at the White House.

Attempting to broker a compromise for the $18 billion wall he wants to build on the U.S.-Mexico border, Trump seemed to be willing to sign a "clean" standalone bill that would let most of the undocumented immigrants who were brought here as children remain in the country.

"I will take all of the heat you want to give me," Trump told House and Senate leaders, acknowledging that any move to retain the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program would infuriate his political base.

The clean bill idea didn't originate with Trump, but with Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who said the idea was part of the price for breaking the budgetary logjam to pay for the wall.

But at a key point in the televised legislative strategy meeting, Trump appeared to suggest that he could support legislation, as he put it, for a "clean DACA bill."

And at another point, said he was willing to let Congress handle the details and would sign the bill they sent him.

Trump was not only ready to compromise on DACA, but on the length of the wall as well, and possibly the cost. It didn't need to be built along the entire 2,000-mile border, but far less than that, he said.

"There's lots of places where you don't need a wall because of nature. You've got a mountain and rivers, you got a violent river," Trump said, adding that he would "like to build (it) under budget, ahead of schedule."

Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, one of the president's harshest critics, called his remarks on the reduced length of the wall "the best part" of the meeting.

"It's not a 2,000-mile physical wall. We've been begging him to say this kind of stuff before. It's only 700 to 800 miles total," Flake told The Washington Post. In fact, with border security surveillance measures, the actual wall would only cover 316 miles.

The tone of the discussion, and Trump's eagerness to strike a deal, triggered warm responses from some of his sharpest critics in both parties.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush tweeted that he was "encouraged" by Trump's bipartisan outreach to both sides of the aisle.

The president seemed fully cognizant of the dangerous political territory he was entering, and repeatedly said in the meeting that he planned to push for a "comprehensive" immigration reform bill after reaching a deal on DACA.

But maybe Trump wasn't acting out of the goodness of his heart to save the Dreamers from mass deportation.

A federal judge in San Francisco sent a little message to the administration Tuesday, in the form of a nationwide preliminary injunction preventing the Trump government from abolishing the DACA program.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup said the DACA work protections will remain untouched for the 690,000 immigrants as long as the case continues to wind its way through the courts.

The judge has not only ruled on the merits of the case, but made it clear to the Trump administration that he is not to harm them in any way until a final decision is reached.

"Plaintiffs have clearly demonstrated that they are likely to suffer serious irreparable harm absent an injunction," Alsup wrote. "Before DACA, individual plaintiffs, brought to America as children, faced a tough set of life and career choices turning on the comparative probabilities of being deported versus remaining here. DACA gave them a more tolerable set of choices, including joining the mainstream workforce."

The lawsuit was brought by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, along with the attorneys general of Maine, Maryland and Minnesota, the University of California, and DACA recipients, among others.

In their lawsuit, the plaintiffs said the administration had failed to follow the law in its decision to end the program.

Last year on Sept. 5, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the DACA program would be terminated and no further applications or renewals would be accepted.

But Judge Alsup intervened Tuesday, ruling that while the case was being heard, anyone who had DACA status on Sept. 5 could reapply.

Now Trump appears to have had a sudden change of heart. Why?

Near the end of last year, polls showed 73 percent of voters supported legislation to protect Dreamers from deportation, according to a Politico Morning Consult poll. And 54 percent wanted to give them a path to citizenship.

And that's when Trump switched his position on Obama's DACA program in a New York minute.


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Trump knows better than to base his decisions on phony polls. He also knows who's coming up for reelection first. The pressure isn't on him it's on the people who made promises for 7 years. Him saying he'll sign anything they send him puts the ball squarely in their court.
1 posted on 01/11/2018 9:46:22 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

do you work for townhall.com?


2 posted on 01/11/2018 9:49:13 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, Soetoro, congress after congress, all of them traitors who padded their bank accounts while America and American culture circled the drain.
 
3 posted on 01/11/2018 9:49:22 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (CNN is fake news.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

The author needs to check out Trump’s latest Tweet.


4 posted on 01/11/2018 9:50:09 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (God Bless Attorney General Jeff Sessions! Thank You!)
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Trump isn’t pressured. He applies the pressure.

Silly people...


5 posted on 01/11/2018 9:52:38 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell, Ryan, and the whole GOPe are dead to me. Are Alabamans tired of winning?)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The asshat is attempting to shape the national mood.


6 posted on 01/11/2018 9:54:50 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: snarkytart
do you work for townhall.com?

Do you do anything other than make stupid comments on other people's posts?

7 posted on 01/11/2018 9:56:23 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Bullcrap headline.


8 posted on 01/11/2018 9:56:51 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

yep bull crap. seems to be the word of the night. mostly bull crap headlines out there.


9 posted on 01/11/2018 9:58:46 PM PST by CJ Wolf (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, one of the president's harshest critics, called his remarks on the reduced length of the wall "the best part" of the meeting.

I really hate that guy

10 posted on 01/11/2018 10:03:09 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

11 posted on 01/11/2018 10:03:14 PM PST by CJ Wolf (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Donald is doing about as well as he can here. He did say he would shoulder the “pressure.” In that sense he feels it. But that doesn’t mean he crumples.


12 posted on 01/11/2018 10:04:09 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Donald is playing it well here. He proposes the outlandish thing first. By the time it has become reasonable, enough have conceded to make it possible.


13 posted on 01/11/2018 10:06:21 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Here is a SCARY THOUGHT!!!!

Trump compromises on DACA and the democrats promise to “build the wall”, then they get their DACA but then never allocate any money for the wall.

Trump complains that they are not honoring their agreements.

The Dems counter that there is no honor among thieves and TRUMP HAD TO BE CRAZY TO THINK THAT THEY WOULD HONOR THEIR SIDE OF THE BARGIN.

BAM! TRUMP IS DECLARED MENTALLY UNFIT VIA THE 25TH AND IS REMOVED FROM OFFICE!!!!

The stuff of nightmares!


14 posted on 01/11/2018 10:08:14 PM PST by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: GraceG

Tell that ghost to go back to the hell from which it came.


15 posted on 01/11/2018 10:12:23 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Donald Lambro is an amnesty backer from way back. I’d take anything he writes with a pinch of salt.


16 posted on 01/11/2018 10:21:18 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

It seems that by now writers would lean that when it comes to Trump, you have to wait at least 2 days after whatever is causing whatever meltdown is occurring. They’d save themselves a lot of time, effort, and in many cases, embarrassment.


17 posted on 01/11/2018 10:27:14 PM PST by euram
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Lots of Conservatives, Tucker carlson, Ann Coulter, james Woods, Michelle Malikin, Lauara Ingraham and more have warned trump not to do this DACA CACA. They are the people he should be listening to.


18 posted on 01/11/2018 10:29:57 PM PST by Cubs Fan (Trump is all that stands between America and left wing totalitarianism)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Is that the one I saw on Fox News about ‘’sh*thole countries’’? Man, I’m laughing my butt off!


19 posted on 01/11/2018 10:33:50 PM PST by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: snarkytart

Are you a call center employee named “Bob” with a thick Pakistani accent?


20 posted on 01/11/2018 10:58:44 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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