(I’m putting this together at 6am, before going to bed, in the knowledge that it may be outdated by the time it appears on the front page. Do your worst, Trickster God!)
The Trump Administration’s anti-immigrant framework is an act of staggering cowardice which attempts to hold the #DREAMers hostage to an unmistakable campaign to make America white again. https://t.co/bhrbQd6YX2
— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) January 26, 2018
There has been a bipartisan "compromise" on immigration with ***majorities*** in both houses of congress since 2013. The problem is Steve King has a veto. And so here we are.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 26, 2018
From the Washington Post, “Lawmakers call on Trump to drop bid for legal immigration cuts”:
Lawmakers in both parties said Sunday that the immigration debate should focus narrowly on efforts to legalize young immigrants known as “dreamers” and beef up border security, suggesting that President Trump’s demands to slash legal immigration levels are likely to sink a deal.
Democrats have voiced fierce opposition to a White House plan, released late last week, that featured a path to citizenship for 1.8 million dreamers in exchange for $25 billion for his border wall and sharp cuts to family immigration visas.
Though Democratic leaders have grudgingly offered wall funding, they have accused the president of leveraging the dreamers as “ransom” to severely constrict legal immigration, calling it a wish list for “anti-immigration hard-liners” and “white supremacists.”
Congress members, including some Republicans, said Sunday that the negotiations have gone too far afield ahead of a March 5 deadline after which 690,000 dreamers in an Obama-era deferred action program could begin to lose their protections from deportation…
Negotiators from both parties said after meeting with Trump at the White House two weeks ago that they had agreed to narrow the talks to four categories — the future of the dreamers, border security, cuts to family immigration and the diversity visa lottery, which Trump wants to eliminate.
Trump’s plan would terminate the ability of U.S. citizens to apply for green cards, awarding permanent legal residence, for their parents and siblings. The nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute estimated that the proposal could annually drop the number of green cards by at least 288,000 — 36 percent of the total number last year….
I have offered DACA a wonderful deal, including a doubling in the number of recipients & a twelve year pathway to citizenship, for two reasons: (1) Because the Republicans want to fix a long time terrible problem. (2) To show that Democrats do not want to solve DACA, only use it!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 28, 2018
Does he think "DACA" is a person? pic.twitter.com/8vDnlpw2jp
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) January 28, 2018
Trump didn’t write this.
A. After his bedtime.
B. He doesn’t do bullet points
C. Too linear & logical
D. He doesn’t care about Republicans. Everything he writes centers not the GIP, but rather, _Donald Trump_. https://t.co/9NH16WjhEs— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 28, 2018
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