Trump, in vulgar terms, rejects bipartisan immigration proposal at White House meeting

Trump’s apparent concession so alarmed House majority leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, that he interjected himself, although he was careful only to gently contradict the president.

The development comes as the White House and lawmakers are wrangling over immigration reform, with Democrats demanding protections for Dreamers. However, he doubts it could get passed by January 19, the deadline that Democrats have set as a target to pass an immigration plan as part of a deal to avoid a government shutdown.

In September, Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave six months’ notice of the Trump administration’s intention to terminate Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, the Obama administration program that granted work permits to Dreamers if they met certain requirements, including clean criminal records. There’s a bipartisan bill floating around the House right now that would protect the Dreamers from deportation and add more money for technology to guard the border. Democrats, whose votes will be needed in the Senate to pass a bill to keep the government open, have said a DACA solution must be part of the government funding bill.

“Before, 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. gave them a more tolerable set of choices, including joining the mainstream workforce”.

When Inskeep asked Short about a “clean” DACA bill, Short said that the WH considers a clean DACA bill to include the four priorities he listed.

“Republican members of Congress are caught in the crosshairs of this”, he said.

I want to be fair here. “I will sign it”, he told the lawmakers.

Tuesday’s immigration summit was “the episode in which Trump shows he’s a serious leader involved in weighty issues, not the looney-tunes airhead depicted in Michael Wolff’s book”.

Congress must do two things in the coming days. Barack Obama enacted DACA in 2012 and the program survived despite fierce criticism that such a change in the law should instead come through an act of Congress.

“These are shocking and shameful comments from the President of the United States”.

“The ruling last night in no way diminishes the urgency of solving the DACA issue”, Schumer said on the Senate floor. Texas taxpayers have invested millions in the education of Dreamers.

“The president believes that people who are here under the DACA program, again, are contributing to our society, and we want to make sure that they stay here”, Short told NPR in an interview aired on Wednesday.

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In addition, they proposed a down payment of the $1.6 billion requested by the administration this year on border security, limits to the ability of recipients to sponsor family members and an end to the diversity lottery and reallocation of those visas in part to cover people who were under Temporary Protected Status.

Trump is also stuck with his promise to build the border wall despite the fact that a USA Today survey of Congress last fall found that fewer than 25 percent of Republicans were willing to endorse the plan. A long, strong fence and additional security measures aren’t the Berlin Wall, nor are their proponents totalitarians.

Thomas Donohue says a White House meeting Tuesday on immigration is a “good start” even if “I am not sure we agree on exactly what we would like to do”.

According to a bill summary, the legislation would authorize construction of a southern border wall and beef up the ranks of U.S. Border Patrol agents by 5,000 and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers by an additional 5,000.

On Wednesday, several House Republicans released their own hardline immigration bill. Already, they have quietly made concessions, like dropping all talk about legalizing anyone other than the almost 1 million DREAMers – leaving the other roughly 9 million undocumented immigrants vulnerable to deportation, even if they have committed no crimes and have deep roots in the United States.

The statement says the UC system will persist in legal challenges to the end of the program and will seek permanent protection for the young immigrants.

The president included a pitch for allowing immigration on merit.

A honest immigration debate that leads to fixes for an antiquated and broken system would be a welcome development. Perhaps that can be a springboard to further reforms.