Posted on 02/14/2018 11:46:58 AM PST by Innovative
President Trump on Wednesday called on lawmakers to oppose a series of bipartisan efforts to address immigration and resolve the fate of the so-called “Dreamers,” demanding fealty to his hard-line approach even as more moderate senators converged on a narrower approach.
Senators in both parties are racing against a self-imposed, end-of-the-week deadline to write legislation that could win broad support by increasing border security while at the same time offering a path to citizenship for immigrants brought to the United States as children.
Members of a bipartisan group calling itself the Common Sense Coalition said they have reached a deal to do just that on Wednesday, but it is not clear whether their bill could garner the 60 votes necessary to break a filibuster. The measure would include $25 billion for the president’s proposed wall at the Mexican border and offer a path to citizenship for 1.8 million of the young immigrants, but would preclude their parents from becoming citizens.
The deal could set up a clash between a large and diverse group of senators from both parties against President Trump and the Republican congressional leadership.
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Wankerville circuit court judge: You have to have a good reason to veto a bill!!
Your veto is unconstitutional because you made insensitive comments during the campaign.
It’s 1.8 million now? Come on. They are illegal aliens and must be deported. Feel bad for them, but the responsibility is their parents’ not ours. They have to go back. All of them. If there is a pathway to citizenship, it has to be applied for from the country they were born in.
I sure hope so. But, THREATS are nothing. His demands ought to match what we all heard many times on the campaign trail; then, let's have a PROMISE.
Otherwise, I'll suspect he plans to be the first one-and-done since Read-My-Lips.
That's President Trump, Slimes shills.
Oh, I don't know. Remember that SCOTUS already ruled that the Feds control immigration after Obama filed suit against Arizona, which was trying to enforce the law.
He is going white so fast... Tough job he has.
LG relishes treason by immigration.
Hey, I heard that the Florida school shooter was a DACA baby. Any validation?
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