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2019-01-20 Home Front: Politix
Trump offers DACA protections in exchange for border wall; Democrats opposed
[USAToday] As the partial government shutdown neared a month, President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
used a White House speech Saturday to outline what he called "a common sense compromise both parties can embrace" that included protections for some undocumented immigrants colonists and money for border security.

"Both sides in Washington must simply come together," Trump said in a White House speech, saying he is trying to "break the logjam." Defending his plan, he said, "walls are not immoral, in fact they are the opposite of immoral because they will save many lives."

"His proposal is a compilation of several previously rejected initiatives, each of which is unacceptable and in total, do not represent a good faith effort to restore certainty to people’s lives," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement issued before Trump's speech.
In remarks he billed as a "major announcement," Trump cited a proposal developed by administration officials and Republican politicians, one that would grant work permits to certain migrants colonists in exchange for approval of wall funding.

Congressional Democrats, however, said the offer as reported would not lead to a deal that would end the shutdown, in part because it would allow Trump to pursue an expensive and ineffective wall.

"His proposal is a compilation of several previously rejected initiatives, each of which is unacceptable and in total, do not represent a good faith effort to restore certainty to people’s lives," House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace...
said in a statement issued before Trump's speech.

Pelosi and other Democrats said the proposal is also a non-starter because it does not provide a path to citizenship for qualified migrants colonists.

A senior House Democratic aide said the proposal as it would not pass the House or Senate, in part because "it includes the same wasteful, ineffective $5.7 billion wall demand that shut down the government in the first place."

Trump said his proposal would give DREAMers ‐ people who were brought into the country illegally as children and now face deportation ‐ work permits and protection from deportation, though he did not say anything about a path to citizenship. "This plan solves the immediate crisis," he said.

In exchange for new Dreamer rules, Trump said he would receive wall funding, a proposal he appeared to scale back in size; Trump said his wall proposal now involves barriers only in "critical places" along the border, not a coast-to-coast structure.

Trump also proposed a new program to allow Central American minors to request asylum in their home countries, though his administration terminated the exact same program shortly after taking power.

Sen. Lindsey Graham
... the endangered South Carolina RINO, fellow maverick of Honest John McCain...
, R-S.C., outlined the proposal for Trump last month, and told news hounds the president was receptive. It involves giving the Democrats protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which includes a group known as DREAMers, and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders.

Trump said his proposal is designed to jump-start talks to end the budget impasse that has kept the government closed for four weeks ‐ now the longest shutdown in U.S. history.

"Let's get to work and let's make a deal," Trump said in a video he tweeted out before the speech.
Deutsche Welle has the details:
  • $5.7 billion for wall or steel barriers for critical areas of the border

  • $800 million dollars in urgent humanitarian assistance to the border

  • $800 million for technology, border protection

  • 75 new immigration judge teams, to reduce immigration casework backlog

  • Measures to protect migrant children from exploitation, a new system for minors to apply for asylum from their home countries

  • Three years of legislative relief for young immigrants (DACA) who arrived illegally with their parents, including access to work permits and protection for deportation

  • A three-year extension to the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) refugee program
Trump critic Mitt Romney BACKS the President's push for a border wall saying he 'doesn't understand' Nancy Pelosi's position

Posted by trailing wife 2019-01-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ]  Top

#1 Sunday is day 30. MLK holiday Monday so RIFs can’t start until Tuesday. No food stamp money should start too!
Posted by 3dc 2019-01-20 01:27||   2019-01-20 01:27|| Front Page Top

#2 The democrats are being contrarians.. No matter what, if trump propose something, the Dems will oppose it.
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2019-01-20 02:05||   2019-01-20 02:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Trump to Dems: "Fuck you. War."
Posted by Rex Mundi 2019-01-20 02:21||   2019-01-20 02:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Next time Trump goes on TV with speech on immigration he should run a ‘ticker’ at the bottom of the screen with just the names of every American murdered by an illegal alien. No explaination, no details... just the names. Force the media and others to look up the names and explain.
Posted by Airandee 2019-01-20 06:09||   2019-01-20 06:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Splendid idea at #4.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-20 07:27||   2019-01-20 07:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Word came down last week, no RIFs with this shutdown.
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2019-01-20 08:45||   2019-01-20 08:45|| Front Page Top

#7 I guess not all deep staters are created equal.
Posted by Fat Bob Glaise8594 2019-01-20 09:43||   2019-01-20 09:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Sad if that no RIFs report is true.
Posted by ruprecht 2019-01-20 11:54||   2019-01-20 11:54|| Front Page Top

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