Why not have the Dreamers pay for the border wall?

The White House has encouraged the Senate to draw up legislation based on the plan and introduce it by February 5, days before the current round of government funding is set to expire. He acknowledged the bipartisan common ground on protections for the immigrants now shielded by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.

White House officials said that the list of enhanced security measures – which have been on anti-immigration wish lists for decades – were nonnegotiable.

US President’s Donald Trump’s plan to offer citizenship to undocumented migrants has pulled off the rare trick of uniting left and right – in outrage. If the Senate and the House cannot come up with an agreement that Trump can sign, he will deal with the issue himself.

But Democrats bristled at several items in the White House proposal they said aimed to please the GOP’s immigration hardliners.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez of IL likened the trade-off to a “ransom”. It seems like a ransom demand, or a head fake, because it requires $25 billion to build his “big, attractive wall” along the Mexican border, plus an additional $5 billion for southern and northern border security.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., tweeted that the proposals are part of “an unmistakeable campaign to make America white again”.

The president recently said he wanted to write legislation to help the Dreamers based on “love”. We would like for Congress to respect these individuals and not tie their fate to building an ineffective border wall at a huge taxpayer expense.

The deal would end the practice of family reunification, which allows citizens to petition the government to allow close family members to immigrate into the country.

“Take the TV cameras out to MI and Pennsylvania and OH and ask the folks out there which plan they prefer”, he said. He won because these principles resonated with Americans who hoped that his election would represent a historic opportunity to modernize our immigration system for the realities of the 21st Century.

Anyone who thinks the latest proposal on immigration by the current occupant of the White House can become law is living in a fantasy world, unfortunately.

Senator Joe Manchin called Trump’s proposal “a good starting point“.

Our immigration policy should be guided by our morals and values around family unity and diversity, not by xenophobia and anti-family sentiments.

Sen. Brian Schatz, a Democrat from Hawaii, also took issue with the proposed legal immigration changes on Twitter.

“While it includes a number of tough immigration enforcement provisions, it includes an amnesty that is more than twice the size of the DACA population”, said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors restrictions. “None”, Schatz said Thursday.

“If, however, he’s decided on a different strategy, which is simply to come down right in the middle of this debate and offer what he thinks the final deal will look like, knowing Democrats are going to walk away from it and try to campaign on their immigration plans in the midterms, then he may be better placed”.

That could make the plan hard to get past Democrats, no matter how strong they want the Dreamers reform. He questioned. “The White House put its cards on the table foolishly”. David Perdue said after the release. And we want to reduce that.

The White House has now specified an immigration plan that President Trump will accept.