His comments followed four tweets on the same topic on Saturday.
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Also Wednesday, the president denounced the federal courts as “broken and unfair” after a USA 9th District judge in San Francisco issued a temporary ruling keeping the DACA program in place, despite Trump’s decision to end it this year.
The debate over DACA’s fate came as lawmakers faced questioning about whether Trump is racist.
Texas Senator John Cornyn, the second ranking member of Senate Republicans, says he’d be surprised if an immigration deal can be completed by then.
No doubt better border security and a more logical guest worker visa program are essentials, but all these issues can be dealt with after Congress passes a budget, which is the real priority now.
Meanwhile, Luna plans to travel to Washington, D.C., on January 17 to lobby for a Dream Act bill not tied to provisions such as funding for a border wall.
Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona, also a Republican, said senators from both parties support a proposed compromise on legislation that he has helped write.
“Yesterday’s decision was great, but it’s not a win because we still don’t have a comprehensive immigration reform, a Dream Act or full DACA reinstituted”, she said. And, Chuck, I will say when this group comes back – hopefully with an agreement – this group and others from the Senate, from the House comes back with an agreement, I’m signing it.
Trump’s agreement has always been essential to any immigration deal. Sen. “The Democrats are negotiating in good faith”.
“Wall was not properly funded, Chain & Lottery were made worse and US would be forced to take large numbers of people from high crime countries which are doing badly”, Trump wrote.
Democratic Senator Dick Durbin has been leading that group, along with Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. “They certainly don’t want this pine needle of a proposal that was on the table today”. “I can not believe that in the history of the White House and that Oval Office any president has ever spoken the words that I personally heard our president speak yesterday”.
“The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used”.
An email message seeing comment was left with Durbin’s office.
Democratic votes are needed to advance such legislation, but top Democrats including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of NY won’t agree to a budget deal unless DACA is dealt with first.
The president’s latest comments drew reactions from overseas on Friday.
“I heard that account before the account even went public”, he said on “This Week”. “DACA is not dead”, she said. And Charles Kuck, a Georgia-based lawyer and former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, tells Mother Jones that he believes Alsup’s decision is likely to be blocked if and when it’s appealed; the Supreme Court has already struck down Alsup’s effort to force the administration to turn over documents about how it chose to end DACA.
“The worst thing that can happen right now is for there not to be a fix at all”, Love said on “State of the Union”.
LOU BARLETTA: We need to make sure that we’re not going to have another 800,000 or million people coming into the country.
As for immigration, Trump rejected the DACA deal because the approach by the bipartisan group of senators who negotiated it wasn’t comprehensive enough.
Democrats had threatened to block a spending package over DACA in December, but leadership blinked.
A senior House Republican, Representative Tom Cole, voiced similar optimism following briefings from House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
Trump gave Congress six months to find a way to allow immigrant approved for the DACA program to remain in the US permanently. “But what we have to do is not let that define this moment”, said Republican Senator Cory Gardner on CBS’s “Face the Nation” program.
Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., searched for wiggle room, insisting that “Democrats are for security at the borders; I want to state that emphatically”.
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United We Dream also fired off a tweet praising conservative Sen.
